The main thing I scanned last week was Jo Roffs 1961, the yearbook for the 1961 class of St. John Fisher College. This was the 7th class to graduate from the college (now University). That class consisted of 75 men as they wouldn’t admit women for many years.

In the front and back of this yearbook are architectural drawings of Kearney Hall (their administration building). Then on pages 84 – 86 there are photos of its construction, including the one on the right. Construction of the building started in 1949 and was finished for the opening of the college in September 1951. The building is named for Rev. James Kearney who has a full page photo on page 6. But the yearbook actually misspelled his name on page 7.

I had a little time left at the end of the week so I scanned 3 Kodak camera manuals:

Picture Taking with the Nos. 1 and 1A Pocket Kodaks, (Feb. 1927). These were folding cameras that could be put in a coat pocket, not a shirt pocket. They were manufactured from 1926 to 1934.  For a few years besides the standard black camera they also made it in blue, brown, green, and gray. Those are harder to find now.

The Kodak Reflex manual is from March 1946. This was an expensive camera. It sold for $100 in the late 1940s. In 2026 dollars that would be about $1800. It did have negatives that were 2.25 inches square so the pictures came out really nice.

The manual for the Kodak Tele-Ektralite 600 Camera is from July 1980. It used 110 film that came in a cartridge. The 110 cameras were very popular but the negative was about 1/4 the size of a 35mm negative so the pictures from 110 cameras all looked grainy.