Mr. Hamilton's diaries cover a sixty-six year period, 1879-1943. The diaries reveal many interesting incidents from his personal life, the School for the Blind, local, national and world events. The diaries for the years 1885 to 1889 give a vivid picture of Hamilton's experiences as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester.
Livingston's papers consist of a one volume manuscript, titled "'Itchy Feet, a Sort of Autobiography." It was written by Mr. Livingston in 1953, and describes the construction of the Eastman Theatre and of the River Campus. It also tells of his many trips of different parts of the world. Also in the collection is the typescript of the diary Livingston kept between July 22, 1925 and May 20, 1930 describing his activities as General Superintendent of Eastman Theater.
A collection of material by and about Elwell Stephen Otis (1838-1909), University of Rochester, Class of 1858. A soldier by profession, he held various positions including that of commander of the Department of the Pacific; and military governor of the Philippines, August 29, 1898 - May 5, 1900.
The Ernst Family Papers, 1911-1963, consist of a scrapbook and a photograph album.
The Frank J. Dowd Jr. Papers reflect his service during World War II, his experiences at the University of Rochester as a student and administrator, and his interest in political buttons and other ephemera. His papers include correspondence written during his freshman year at the University of Rochester and while serving in the Army during World War II. In his letters, Dowd writes to his parents, Frank J. Dowd and Virginia R. Dowd; his sisters, Barbara, Carol, and Mavis (all three of whom also attended the University of Rochester); his aunt Winifred Dow, whom he called "Aunt Way Way," and his grandparents Caroline and Otto Rhein. Dowd describes his experiences as a freshman—including expenses, classes, campus food, activities, and fraternities. He writes about Rochester friends, including Richard Wade, who, like Dowd, came from the Chicago area and who later became a history professor at the University of Rochester. He observes classmates leaving for military service during World War II and reflects on his own upcoming service, expressing interest in the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.). Once in the Army, he describes his experiences while stationed at Camp Wolters in Texas, Fort Dix in New Jersey, and other locations in the United States; while serving in Europe; and while recovering from shrapnel wounds in England and Washington state. Some of Dowd's correspondence is in the form of Victory Mail (V-Mail)—a system employed by the armed services during World War II to streamline mail delivery through the use of microfilm. While Dowd's correspondence from this time consists primarily of his own letters and postcards, it also contains some official correspondence to Dowd's parents from the University of Rochester and the War Department.
Primarily a collection of correspondence, business papers, diaries, journals, essays, etc., of Horatio Gates Warner (1801-1876) and his immediate family.
The majority of the collection includes the research, lecture notes, published articles and books for Howard Merritt, with a small portion of materials related to Florence. Merritt. Howard wrote and lectured extensively on 19th century painters such as Thomas Cole and Thomas Chambers. Much of Howard's research and lecture notes focus on painting in early America and American landscape, however, his lectures also covered topics such as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque period. Florence's research and lecture notes, though limited, focus on early America, specifically the American West. The collection also contains the couple's correspondence exchanged among colleagues from 1963-1988.
The Individual Manuscripts Collection ranges in date from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century and documents the actions of historical figures and events, principally from American History. Personages include Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, DeWitt Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, David Crockett, Charles Darwin, Jefferson Davis, Henry Dearborn, Ferdinand Victor Eugeneène Delacroix, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Millard Fillmore, Gerald Ford, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, George IV, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Benjamin Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rutherford B. Hayes, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Hooker, Herbert Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Samuel Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Henry James, Mary Jemison, Andrew Johnson, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Kirkland, Henry Knox, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Martin Luther, James Madison, John Marshall, Cotton Mather, Guy de Maupassant, William McKinley, James Monroe, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Horatio Nelson, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Rutledge, Margaret Sanger, the Seneca Nation, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, William Tecumseh Sherman, Upton Sinclair, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Howard Taft, Isaiah Townsend, Bess (Wallace) Truman, Sojourner Truth, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, Daniel Webster, Walt Whitman, William Wilberforce, Thornton Wilder, William Wordsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Emile Zola.
The James E. Spencer Papers extend from his early education to Helen's business affairs after his death. Material relating to the University of Rochester includes the text of Chancellor Ira Harris's address at the University's first commencement in 1851, as well as a notice of Spencer's honorary dismissal from Madison and an 1850 letter to his brother. Post-UR material is mostly legal matters.
The collection contains five scrapbooks covering the period 1906-1918 (see descriptive listing); a notebook of salesmen's information for the Hickok Manufacturing Co. from the 1940's; and printed, processed and manuscript material relating to the Lanni family genealogy, the First World War and Lanni's service in it, and his retirement in Sun City.
The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, speeches, and clippings from Wilson's participation in numerous business and community organizations. The bulk of the collection is dated 1959-1971, a period of growth for Xerox as well as the city and University of Rochester.
The Joseph Henry Gilmore Papers are mainly Professor Gilmore's lectures on literature and English. There also are papers relating to the University of Rochester, including correspondence to Professor Gilmore, and manuscript copies of the hymn "He Leadeth Me," written by Professor Gilmore in 1862.
The collection consists of correspondence to Mrs. Gale from various members of the Bowen and Gale families. There are also many letters from alumni and faculty members of the University of Rochester at the time of the Gale's marriage. Also included in the papers is material on the settlement of the will of Adelaide M. Bowen, mother of Katharine Bowen Gale.
The Kendrick Family Papers includes the correspondence and other papers of Asahel Clark Kendrick and Ryland Morris Kendrick. The correspondence of Asahel Clark Kendrick includes letters to and from University of Rochester professors and trustees at the time of the founding of the University. There are also letters from prominent educators, clergymen, and literary figures. Other papers are the lecture notes and writings of Asahel Clark and Ryland Morris Kendrick. These include translations and commentaries of various books of the Bible by A. C. Kendrick, as part of his work on the revised English version of the Bible. The papers also include books and pamphlets written by A. C. Kendrick, journals and poems by various family members, and the house plans of the Kendrick home on Alexander Street, near East Avenue. The family correspondence to and from A. C. Kendrick includes letters from his wives: Anne Elizabeth (Hopkins) Kendrick, and Helen Morris (Hooker) Kendrick; his children, and his son-in-law Rossiter Johnson.
The collection includes materials in four broad categories: scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs and autobiographical materials. The scrapbooks kept by Mrs. Laney, Esther Laney, and Augusta (Laney) Hoeing have a definite, if limited, historical interest. In her scrapbooks dating from 1872 to 1894, Mrs. Laney saved items relating to the deaths and marriages in the Laney and Walbridge families. She also collected obituaries of friends and Rochester notables, as well as items relating to the Rochester park system. All three women collected poems and humorous short stories cut out of newspapers and magazines. The two younger women's scrapbooks, dating from 1894 to 1917, also contain reviews of local recitals and theater performances along with newspaper clippings about national events and a few personal keepsakes.
Papers contain typescripts with manuscript corrections and additions for his Philosophic Inquiry (1952), A Commentary of the Critique of Practical Reason (1958), and Six Secular Philosophers (1960). Also included is a Xerox copy of the typescript with manuscript corrections for his Early German Philosphy (1969). A 1960 manuscript draft of The Actor and the Spectator is accompanied by the later revised typescript (1974).
The collection includes correspondence, reports, and printed material relating to Folsom's career in business and government. Subjects include creation, passage, and implementation of the Social Security Act of 1935 and amendments to it; unemployment insurance plan of Eastman Kodak Company, 1920's and '30's; Rochester Civic Plan on Unemployment, 1930-34; New York State Advisory Council on Placement and Unemployment Insurance. Also U.S. House of Representatives Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning (Colmer Committee), dealing with reconstruction in Europe, 1944-46; National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy, 1950-53; U.S. Treasury Department, with emphasis on taxation and social insurance, 1953-55. Additional subjects are Committee for Economic Development, and its Committee for Improvement of Management in Government, whose report on presidential succession resulted in a constitutional amendment; and other advisory councils, commissions, and conferences. Other material relates to University of Rochester, calendar reform, and higher education in New York State and in the South. There is correspondence with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kenneth B. Keating, Oveta Culp Hobby, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Lyndon B. Johnson; a transcript of an interview with Josef Stalin, 1945; and Folsom's scrapbooks and speeches.
The Sanford Elwitt Papers includes correspondence from 1950-1989 exchanged between him and his colleagues at the University of Rochester, and other institutions. Additional materials include grant proposals, reviews of others' writings, and materials related to Elwitt's role and promotion within the University of Rochester's History Department.
Predominant in this collection is the correspondence (1932-1952) between vertebrate zoologist Sherman C. Bishop and wildlife artist Hugh P. Chrisp. In their letters the men discuss the details of their work -- specimen collecting and illustration particulars -- as well as their personal lives. Frequent topics include: family, fellow artists, scientists, and authors; the University of Rochester biology department; the effect of World War II on the men's professional and personal lives; Bishop's declining health; and Rochester society - including the lakeside community in Naples, NY, where the Bishops had a cottage and Chrisp was visitor. The collection also contains letters from members of the Bishop family and others to both Sherman Bishop and Hugh Chrisp, as well as newspaper articles, printed ephemera, and photographs related to the life and careers of both men.
The Tindall Family Film Collection consists of 16-millimeter footage shot by Dr. Herbert L. Tindall, UR1936, the father of Dr. Robert Tindall, UR1965. Included are scenes of the River Campus only a few years after it opened in 1930, up to 1940, the year Herbert's younger brother Harry graduated. The rest of the collection shows three generations of the Tindall family and their friends at home and on vacation.
There are 15 boxes in the Virginia Moscrip Papers: 2 boxes of correspondence dating from 1818 through 1962, 3 boxes of Charles H. Moscrip ephemera reflecting his theological and theatrical interests as well as his time spent at the University of Rochester; 2 boxes of Virginia Moscrip ephemera from childhood through her years as a student and educator; 2 boxes of miscellaneous family ephemera; and 4 boxes of photo albums. Much of the family ephemera and correspondence are associated with Minerva (Lamareau) DeLany (1837-1919) and her husband, Amos N. DeLany (1832-1895), Virginia Moscrip's maternal grandparents, who had lived in Clyde, New York, since 1852. The DeLany's are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, along with their grandchildren, Lydia Bell Moscrip, Minerva L. Moscrip, and Charles B. Moscrip and his wife, Elsie (1890-1912). The personal papers of Virginia Moscrip's mother, Lydia Bell DeLany Moscrip, are held at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Also included are Liberty Loan flyers and advertisements, membership cards and a service flag, food rationting campaign items and recipes, knitting patterns, two undated clippings, including an editorial by Anna Howard Shaw; and a commemorative booklet celebrating Susan B. Anthony's eightieth birthday.
The papers consist of four large scrapbooks containing original letters (including some from his friend George Eastman), photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, etc. relating to Hubbell and his life, family and career. Also with the papers are eighteen letters and telegrams not with the scrapbooks from such people as Theodore Roosevelt (10 items), William C. Bryant (1 item), Booker T. Washington (1 item) and Susan B. Anthony (1 item). These eighteen letters are indexed in the Department's card catalog index to individual manuscripts.
The papers include Mr. Sage's correspondence, manuscripts dealing with the founding of the University of Rochester, and early University financial and legal papers. The correspondence of Oren Sage, John N. Wilder, and Smith Sheldon are also contained in the collection.
