The Rochester Public Library has uploaded some new scanned items for the first time in almost two years.
Among the new things is “Rochester’s Part in the World War (I).” It is a 36 page booklet showing the things that people from the Rochester area did to help during WWI. Some of the ladies in the picture were in the Women’s Motor Corps while others helped via the Red Cross.
There are two volumes of “Men of New York” from 1898. These are biographies of prominent business and political leaders. Volume 1 covers western NY including Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie and Niagara Counties. Volume 2 covers New York City, Eastern region, Chemung region and Genesee Region which does include some men from Monroe County.
Then also scanned was another scrapbook of newspaper obits collected by the Rochester Museum (vol. 5). Volume 1 which has obits from 1912-13 and volume 2 which has obits from 1914 were scanned in 2014. The newly scanned volume 5 has obits from 1916. Where are volumes 3 and 4? They are either lost or are too fragile to be scanned.
Wow, Dick! You discovered these quick! The library has not even cataloged them yet, so without your expert sleuthing and direct links most people wouldn’t even have been able to see them yet. Indeed, these were just uploaded to our directory last week as the first step in the process in making them widely discoverable and accessible. I guess the cat is out of the bag now! 🙂 Look for an official announcement in weeks to come.