This collection continues the history of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York as started in the Henry Augustus Ward Papers (call number A.W23) and continued in the Ward's Natural Science Establishment Papers (call number D.231). While the first collection of the Establishment (D.231) concentrates on the history of Ward's from the 1950s through the 1980s, covering mostly the financial and business aspects of the company, particularly from the time when William C. Gamble was president of Ward's (1962 through 1980), this newest addition to the collection, while smaller in volume, is much broader in scope. It encompasses the history of Ward's from its earliest beginnings with Henry A. Ward in 1862 through the sale of the company in 1998. It also includes many historical materials on the extended Henry A. Ward Family.
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This small collection of family papers contains correspondence of Warham Whitney, early Rochester miller, and members of his family. The correspondence (letters and invitations) is arranged chronologically. Also present is a portrait of an unidentified woman, which is placed at the end of the arrangement.
Watson family papers, 1870-1981 4 boxes
Photographs of people and homes, and some articles and documents (including copies of contracts for Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester) relating to several generations of the Watson Family of Rochester, New York. Individuals include Don Alonzo Watson (1807-1892) and his wife, Matilda M. Watson, their son James Sibley Watson (1860-1951) and his wife Emily Sibley Watson (1855-1945), and their son James Sibley Watson Jr. (1894-1983) and his wife Hildegard Lasell Watson (1888-1976) and their son Michael Lasell Watson (b. 1918).
The collection consists of secretary's minutes from the Club's founding in 1890. Also included are member biographical information forms, which the organization sent to its membership as part of its centennial celebration, and schedules and announcements of meetings which document the longevity of the Club. Most valuable in this collection are the surviving reading copies of papers presented. The research papers chronicle the opinions of middle and upper-class women related to a variety of topics including travel, disarmament, gender limitations, welfare reform and the domestic arts. Most notable were those read by Alice Wood Wynd, Harriet Steele Rhees, and Rose Alling. Papers presented by guest lecturers are also included in this collection. Correspondence, as well as materials related to the Club's Centennial Celebration, and photographs document the development of the organization.
The collection includes a selection of personal letters, most of which are addressed to W. P. Garrison, which have been preserved because of their autograph value. The letters have been indexed. Included are letters to Garrison from Phoebe Garnant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, J.M. McKim, Gerrit Smith, and others.
The Whitney Rogers Cross Papers includes carbon copies of his M.A. thesis, Creating a City: the History of Rochester from 1824 to 1834 (University of Rochester, 1936), and of his Ph. D dissertation, The Burned-Over District, 1825-1850 (Harvard University, 1944).
The William Albert Searle Papers includes course notes from classes of William C. Morey and George M. Forbes at the University of Rochester; article on dramatic productions, 1906; and memorabilia
The William Beatty Rochester Papers includes correspondence and financial papers, which are arranged in separate chronological orders in two boxes. There are approximately 375 manuscript letters and documents that detail William Beatty Rochester's life and also that of his sons James Hervey Rochester and William Beatty Rochester.
The William Carey Morey Papers include the diary that Professor Morey kept while a member of the Union Army during the Civil War, as well as copies of papers and addresses written by Professor Morey.
The collection includes the correspondence and other papers of William Channing Gannett (1840-1923), who was a Unitarian minister in St. Paul, Minnesota (1877-1883) and Rochester, N.Y. (1889-1908). The correspondence to and from Mr. Gannett includes letters from Jane Addams, Abigail May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Longfellow, Elihu Root, Alphonso and William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, Frank Lloyd Wright and many Unitarian leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s. There are also letters relating to the Western Unitarian Controversy, the education of the freedmen at Port Royal, the temperance crusade, Unity magazine, Unitarian church organization and membership, and to the editing of Unity Hymns and Chorals by Mr. Gannett and Frederick L. Hosmer. About 400 letters, dated 1875-1912, were added to the collection by Charles H. Lyttle and relate to the Western Unitarian Controversy.