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University of Rochester: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation

University of Rochester: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation

Rush Rhees Library
Second Floor, Room 225
755 Library Rd.
Rochester, NY 14627, United States
The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester is located in Rush Rhees Library. Our collections span a range of subjects and time periods. They include manuscripts, audio and visual material, books and serials, letters, diaries, photographs, ephemera, personal and business records, architectural drawings, maps, and more.

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Women's City Club of Rochester, N.Y.

These papers are concerned primarily with the club from the time of its disbandment in the fall of 1930 to the final disposition of its property in 1935. Included in the collection are business letters, bills and statements, treasurer's reports, bank statements and cancelled checks, four bank books, a check book, and a financial ledger which includes a list of the members of the club.

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University of Rochester. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

This collection is comprised of one series: Print Material. Print Material includes original clippings and copies of newspaper articles from Rochester newspapers like the Democratic and Chronicle as well as national publications like the New York Times. These articles range in date from 1852-2011. This series also includes programs and pamphlets containing event announcements, book publication announcements, as well as postcards and commemorative printed materials. There are also two plays written by Arlene Brent Fanale as well as papers given by Richard S. Gilbert in 2001 titled, "The Religion of Susan B. Anthony," and a second paper by an unnamed presenter titled, "Anthony and Douglass: Friends and Allies," delivered in 2006. There are three photographs taken at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., two of a bust of Susan B. Anthony, and the third capturing a deck of playing cards sold in the gift shop. Finally, there are two video tapes titled, "Great American for Children": Susan B. Anthony and Seneca Reflections: Celebrating 150 Years of Women's Rights, and one record album titled, The Mother of Us All: An Opera.

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League of Women Voters of the Rochester Metropolitan Area

This collection consists of three series: New York State Campaigns, Conference Programs, and Published Materials. The first series includes by-laws for both the Woman Suffrage Party of Monroe County as well as the Women's City Club of Rochester, New York. Conference Programs includes national and international conference calls and programs from the first decades of the twentieth century. The third series, Published Materials include pamphlets encouraging women and men to campaign for woman's suffrage during the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. There are a number of articles published by the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and similar organizations sharing with readers the state of the campaign. There are also a number of printed ephemera documents in support and in opposition to woman's suffrage, as well as celebrations of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.