The Academic Regalia collection contains robes, hoods, and caps worn by University of Rochester administrators, faculty, students, and trustees at formal events. Descriptions of regalia include the name of the manufacturer (Cotrell and Leonard, for example) when this information is known. Each set of regalia has been assigned a number, which appears before the title of the item(s).
The Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness (SOCA) papers contain two series: Events and Awards. Within the Events series are five subseries—Caribash, Carifesta, Campaigns, Other Events, and Photographs—which contain materials such as banners, posters, flyers, and pamphlets. In the Caribash and Carifesta subseries are materials used in the planning and advertising of these two events. The Campaigns subseries contains materials on students' organized efforts to support the people of Haiti following Hurricane Matthew in 2016. There are also subseries for Other Events and Photographs, the latter showing events and activities such as potluck and game nights. Some of the photographs appear to predate SOCA and may show African and Caribbean Cultural Club (ACCC) and Black Students' Union (BSU) events.
Retired subject folders from the Office of Public Information. Contents include press releases, press clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Subjects include Air Force ROTC, Alumni, Athletic Policy, Baseball, Basketba1l, Centennial, Commencement, East High School Site, Eastman School, Football, Medical Center, Merger of the Two Campuses, Navy ROTC, University School.
Correspondence to and from James A. McMillen, head librarian at the University of Rochester. Mainly concerned with order work, although there is some general correspondence.
Two manuscript books on library procedures. One (late 1800s?) contains information on cross-references for the card catalog, and the other (1899) contains details of library routines.
The Elizabeth Brayer Papers consists of two series: Draft Manuscripts and Printed Materials. Within the first series there are four complete drafts of Brayer's biography of George Eastman. Johns Hopkins University Press published Brayer's book titled, George Eastman, a Biography, in 1996. In 2006 the University of Rochester Press reprinted it. The second series consists of a photocopy of the script: George Eastman in Focus.
The National Organization for Women, Rochester Chapter Records represents local examples of action women organized during the 1970s- 2000s. This collection is divided into four series: Chapter Records, Issue Campaigns, Printed Materials and Women Against a Violent Environment. The Chapter Records include by-laws, board of director meeting minutes, a member survey and issues from the chapter newsletter. Issue Campaigns includes materials related to supporting women's reproductive health rights, welfare, equal rights and pay equity. The third series includes pamphlets and newspaper clippings documenting various issue campaigns associated with the local chapter. The Women Against a Violent Environment series includes meeting minutes and newspaper clippings from this active sub-group of NOW.
The collection is comprised of two series: Activism and Printed Materials. The series Activism contains materials from the Speak- Out conference organized by the Genesee Region Women's group on June 4, 1977. Issue packets such as economic and health rights provide documentation of the later phase of the Second Wave feminism movement. The second series includes fliers and pamphlets regarding the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, which was never ratified, as well as reproductive rights campaigns and lesbian rights issues. One of the most significant group of materials in this collection document reactions in the city of Rochester and surrounding towns, when in June of 1986, activist Nikki Craft bared her breasts during a woman's rights rally in Cobb's Hill. Coverage of the rally, letters to the editor and editorials represent a wide spectrum of local opinions regarding women's rights.
Subject folders from the International Student Office of the University of Rochester, which advises foreign students on all except academic matters. Folders include ones on organizations working with foreign students, English language, housings, and orientation.
The Harriet Hollister Spencer Papers concern her work with the rose and herb gardens at the Rochester Museum and Science Center and with the Ellwanger and Barry Arboretum in Highland Park. There are also items about the award of the Rose Medal of the Garden Club of America to her in 1959.
