The 1963 Hourglass is the yearbook from the Columbia School in Rochester. It was a private girl’s school except for the nursery school and kindergarten which had boys. In 1963 the school was in a large house. It later merged with the Allendale school which only had boys. That is how we got the current …
This took a week and a half because it is over 400 pages. It is Publication Fund Series, Volume 17, (1939) from the Rochester Historical Society. Now on the Online Book web page are links to the first 21 volumes of the series. Most of those volumes are on other websites. Most of volume 17 …
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 about an early school in Rochester. Although called the “Female Academy,” I have this picture of the students in 1854 and there are some boys among the students. …
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 …