I scanned 3 things last week: Stories of Rochester (1921) by M. Frances Logan. She was the Principal of School #34 in Rochester. She wrote these historic stories of Rochester for school children. This is an edition from 1921. There was an edition published in 1984 as part of the Rochester Sesquicentennial. That 1984 edition …
Last week I scanned two books, one easy to digitize and one not so easy. First, I scanned Notes on Early Rochester History from 1934. It was prepared by Rochester Museum of Arts and Science (now RMSC) to be used a resource for the museum’s history exhibits. There are brief history articles and outlines. Some …
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 …
This is a video that I’ve been wanted to do for years. It is my re-creation of Pathways to Progress; The Pageant of Rochester. It was given in the summer of 1934 to celebrate the centennial of the City of Rochester. Back in January of 2018 I went to the Local History Division of the …