The New York temporary cofferdam construction photographs, October 28, 1912, show images of the dam that existed prior to the construction of the dam destroyed in 1912 pursuant to Barge Canal Contract No. 37. Each of the four silver gelatin photographs depicts scenes of the progress as of October 1912 in the dredging of a canal in the Oswego River and the removal of Battle Island and High Dams. There are identical descriptions written by the photographer, Frederick W. Modry, on the back of each photograph. The photographs include scenes of a small steam locomotive moving a steam shovel back and forth, large piles of rubble behind the newly constructed temporary coffer dam, and the scale of the massive project with workers against the backdrop of the construction and factory buildings overlooking the project.

The Eugene F. Roberts Papers is comprised of one series: Personal Papers. Within this series there are sixteen letters written between Roberts and Julia Boulware, while Roberts served as Lieutenant of the New York 10th Zouaves and the 82nd U.S. Colored Infranty Regiment, Corps de Afrique. The other two items in this collection are a handwritten poem, presumably be Roberts and a woodcut of one of his military headquarters.

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The collection includes a construction report dated January 1st 1939 to December 31st, 1940. The report is a typescript with mounted photographs.

The Chicago Dzviti photographic collection includes photographs taken in the early 1990s by Chicago Dzviti in Zimbabwe, the United States, and Europe. The collection includes negatives, contact sheet, prints, color slides, and related print materials. The earliest known date for an image in this collection is October 4, 1991, and the latest photographs in the collection were taken shortly before Chicago Dzviti's death in 1995.

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 Helen Power Papers are divided into five series: General Board of Regents Business, Committee Meetings and Conferences, Proposals, Reports, Published and Printed Materials. The series General Board of Regents Business contains correspondence written to and from Power, as well as to other members of the Board, materials related to issue campaigns and addresses made to the Board as well as other community groups. The second series, Committee Meetings and Conferences includes materials from weekly and monthly meetings held between 1973 and 1975. The third series includes proposals and recommendations made by and to the Board. Similarly, the fourth series, Reports contains drafts and final versions of documents submitted for the Board's approval. The final series is comprised of newsletters published and sent to Power and others during the early 1970s, as well as newspaper articles and other printed materials related to education.

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.