The October issue of City Magazine has a short article on the Stone Tolan house. It is the oldest house in Monroe County; or at least part of it is. The original part of the house is from 1792 when very few white people called western New York home. The photos in the online version of …
Last week I scanned nine of the earliest issues of The Bulletin. It was the news magazine of Memorial Art Gallery. The museum was founded in 1913 by Emily Sibley Watson as a memorial to her son, James. It has always has been in trust of the University of Rochester. They have collected paintings, sculptures …
I scanned a booklet from the early days of the Strong Museum. The Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum is from 1973 at a time when the collection was still housed at the Strong mansion on East Ave. This booklet shows the kind of things that they had. At that time they had classic paintings, minerals, and …
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Last week I scanned the last 6 issues of Museum Service magazines that I have. At that time they were called Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. When they added the Planetarium they changed their name to Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). One of the things that were of interest to me were the …