I added 4 new publications to the GenWeb last week: Rochester, The Flower City from 1905 is what is called a souvenir booklet. It has pictures from around Rochester at that time. I was surprised to see some automobiles on the streets downtown. In 1905 there couldn’t have been many cars in the City. The …
The Greece Historical Society let me scan Northampton; A Town Center from 1973. This was an ambitious plan to create a new center in the Town of Greece. It would have a giant circle 1,500 feet in diameter encompassing the intersection of Long Pond and Latta Road. On the circle were to be some stores, …
NYS Historic Newspapers has added some new newspapers to their online collection. Jewish Tidings was published weekly from Feb. 5, 1887 to Jan. 12 1894 for a total of 354 issues. Jewish Ledger is available online from Sept. 27, 1924 to Dec. 23, 1993 (3406 issues). This is also a weekly newspaper. Sources online say …
Racing with the Hours is dated about 1930. It tells about how the Rochester Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle newspapers are created and published every day. It is pretty well detailed but the print size is very small and you may have to enlarge the PDF file to be able to read the text. Notice …