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Centennial Committee of the City of Rochester

This collection consists of four volumes. Three are identified as "The Committees on Arrangements: Their Meetings, Figures and Reports." These volumes contain committee membership lists, meeting minutes, typescripts of editorial submissions and publicity, budgets, and other documentation of the Rochester Centennial Arrangements Committee. The final volume is a photographic album containing images of the Rochester Centennial celebrations. The volumes date between June 25, 1933 and November 1, 1934.

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Includes bylaws, stock certificates, and other documents pertaining to the Rochester Central Power Corporation. The New York Central Railroad is described in the volume as the principal owner of the Mohawk Valley Company, which in turn owned all "outstanding common stock" of the Rochester Gas and Electric Company.
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Rochester Civic Garden Center
This collection consists of the records and news coverage of the Rochester Civic Garden Center acquired from the Center when it downsized upon its closure in 2018. The materials consist of scrapbooks, newspapers and magazines, posters and maps, photo albums, and published books dating between 1881 and 2013 on gardens and green spaces in the Rochester area.
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Michaels-Stern & Co.

The collection consists of advertising materials for the manufacturers and retailers in the clothing industry, mainly of Rochester, NY. Men's, women's, and children's fashions and accessories from the turn of the century to the 1960s are represented. A wide variety of materials are found in the collection, including style model books, posters, photographs, brochures, catalogs, circulars, and sample fabrics. Box 1 contains the materials of several clothing manufacturers, primarily Michaels-Stern & Co. (and its associated Australian retailer) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester, Inc. Large advertising poster boards for these two Rochester firms can also be found in Box 3. Also of interest in Box 1 are photographs and display posters for a manufacturing facility in France, showing the differences between clothing manufacturing in the United States and France. Box 2 contains a broad range of advertisement materials for many clothing retailers located in Rochester and other locations. A significant amount of this material concerns women's fashions. Also included in this box are miscellaneous materials relating to laundering, sewing, and fabric use. Box 4 contains lithographic prints advertising men's clothing made by Adler-Rochester.

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Rochester Community Players (Rochester, N.Y.)
The Rochester Community Players (RCP) collection represents the records of the oldest community theatre in New York State and one of the oldest continuously operated theater organizations in the United States. The collection includes almost nine cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and playbills from the majority of plays performed from 1925 to 1997, in addition to legal papers, reports, relocation proposals, printed material including history, awards, schedules, newsletters, and drawings.
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Boy Scouts of America. Otetiana Council

This collection consists of the records of the messenger service that the Rochester Council, Boy Scouts of America, operated as part of the Civil Defense of Rochester from 1942 to 1944. The records consist of meeting minutes, organizational charts and plans, and records of various civil defense drills with which the Boy Scout Messenger Service was involved. The records include in information on additional Boy Scout activities in support of civil defense during World War II, including their roles in scrap drives, postering, and air raid preparation.

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Marshall, William O.

This collection consists of materials relating to Rochester Health Bureau, particularly Chief Milk Inspector W. O. Marshall. It includes correspondence of W.O. Marshall (Chief Milk Inspector) and the Health Bureau. 1910-1911; 1913; 1916-1920, including one letter to George Goler. It also includes 54 lantern slides of Education Exhibition in 1912. The materials as a whole date between 1910 and 1918,

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Rochester family

Boxes 1 and 2 contain about 250 letters, dating from 1780 to 1910, with a concentration of letters between 1800 and 1830. The correspondence is mainly to and from Nathaniel Rochester, with some other family members represented. The papers contain a few letters from well-known national figures, including Henry Clay (two letters, along with material concerning Clay's burial in Box 3 folder 10), James Madison (one letter signed), Albert Gallatin (one document signed), and Alexander Hamilton (one document signed). Other important correspondents include Charles Carroll and William Fitzhugh, Rochester's partners in the 1803 Western New York land purchase. There are also retained copies of Rochester's own letters, written in his own hand along with correspondence from several of his sons, including William B. Rochester, who served as a Congressman. Also included are 17 letters Nathaniel Thrift Rochester wrote to his mother and sisters during a tour of Europe in 1832. Letters dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are to and from descendants of Rochester.