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 next to last page in the booklet is an aerial view at Ontario Beach Park. The large crowd is there to see elephants bathing in Lake Ontario. They were there as a summer attraction. There are three elephants but the one on the left is very hard to see unless you blow up the picture.
• “No-license Champion,” vol. 1, no. 2, April 11, 1899 is a temperance newspaper from the local W.C.T.U. (Women’s Christian Temperance Union). They were an early advocate of alcohol prohibition. I was surprised to see that the organization still exists.
• “Farm Life,” vol. 10, no. 1, January 1890. This is an agricultural farming newspaper published in Rochester. I found a reference that it began in 1880 as “Empire State Agriculturalist.” Then they changed the name to “Farm Life” in 1887. It was published until at least 1897 but if other issues survived, I couldn’t find them. This and the newspaper above were lent to me by the Greece Historical Society.
• Cooking for One or Two . I keep thinking that I have scanned all the old RG&E recipe booklets. Then I found this one at an estate sale. This is more like what I need for cooking for just myself even though I probably won’t do any of the recipes.