Last week, besides the Al Sisson booklet that I wrote about yesterday, I also scanned a few smaller things. Rochester Ways (1900) is by Charles Mulford Robinson. It is really small book; only 4.25 x 6 inches with 70 pages. I would describe this as Robinson’s ramblings about Rochester. He came to Rochester as a …
In this article from William Wilkinson’s scrapbook “One Hundred Great and Near-Great Events, Person and Places in Rochester History” (1947) he shares his cartoon and some information on the early tailors in Rochester. Jehiel Barnard was the tailor who put together the first suit made in Rochester in the year 1813. It was the autumn …
I scanned History of St. Augustine (Under Four Flags) from 1938. It is a 32 pages booklet for tourists visiting St. Augustine, Florida. I uploaded it to the Internet Archive. There was another one with the same title already on there but it was from a different year and some of the pictures and text …
I scanned two things last week. First is Dake 1987, the yearbook for Dake Junior High School in Irondequoit. I t only had (and has) grades 7 and 8. The good thing about this yearbook is that all the students have a picture (and with their names). There are also the usual pictures of activity …