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The Anthony - Avery collection consists mainly of the correspondence between Susan Brownell Anthony and Rachel Foster Avery. The correspondence dates between the years 1882 to 1908, with the greatest number of letters having been written in 1887, 1897 and 1898. Most of the letters were written by Susan B. Anthony to Rachel F. Avery. As corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Avery played an integral part in all the plans and problems of that organization. The correspondence to and from her, therefore, reflects many facets of the suffrage movement including the plans for the 40th (1888) and 50th (1898) anniversary celebrations of the beginning of the women's suffrage movement: the strategies for adding women's suffrage amendments to the constitution of various states: the problems of winning converts to the cause and raising money: the writing of Miss Anthony's biography and the personal relationship between Susan B. Anthony and Rachel Foster Avery.
10/16/24, 12:11 AM
Fifty two letters from writer, reformer, and artist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) to her close friend Martha Luther Lane (1862-1948) written between 1882 and 1889. The letters, some of which are illustrated, address work, marriage, motherhood and depression. The collection also includes images of 15 trade cards Gilman designed.
9/26/22, 12:47 PM
Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), an English actor who emigrated to the United States in 1821. He was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, himself a successful actor who gained notoriety as the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Edwin Booth was born on the Booth farm near Bel Air Maryland. He was educated in the local private schools and also accompanied his father on theatrical tours from the age of thirteen. He made his theatrical debut in 1849 in Boston in a small part in Richard III, and in the two years following played juvenile parts in his father's productions. He accompanied his father to California in July 1852, where they acted in San Francisco and Sacramento under the Management of Junius Brutus Booth Jr. The elder J.B. Booth started to return to Maryland, but died on the way. Edwin Booth stayed in the west and toured the mining towns and acted in his brother's company in San Francisco. He stayed in California until 1856, interrupted by a tour of Australia in 1854. After he returned east, he toured the south, acted in Boston and New York, and toured again in the west and south. Edwin Booth married Mary Devlin in 1860. In 1861 they sailed to England, where he appeared in London, Liverpool and Manchester in rather unsuccessful engagements. Their daughter, Edwina was born on December 9, 1861. They returned to New York where Booth acted at the Winter Garden until his wife's sudden death in February 1863. He temporarily retired from the stage, returning to undertake the management of the Winter Garden in September 1863. Booth's management of the Winter Garden was interrupted by his brother's assassination of Lincoln in April 1865. He returned to it in January 1866, but the theatre burned in March 1867. To replace the Winter Garden, he built Booth's Theatre in New York, which opened February 3, 1869. The financial panic of 1873-74 forced him to withdraw in 1873 and in 1874 he became bankrupt. For the rest of his career he toured the United States, the British Isles and Europe without having a permanent theatre home. In June 1869, he married his leading lady, Mary McVicker. She retired from the stage and delivered their son, Edgar who died soon afterwards on July 3, 1870. Mary McVickar contracted tuberculosis and died \in 1881. Booth's final performance was in Hamlet, April 4, 1891 in Brooklyn. He died June 7, 1893. The collection consists of 54 letters written by Edwin Booth to John E. Russell during the years 1864 to 1881, concerning acting, theatre critics, Booth's theatre and family and social matters. John Russell was a theatre critic and journalist, who appears to have written for the New York Sun as well as other papers. He lived in Leicester, Massachusetts, but appears to have been in New Orleans in 1870.
4/4/24, 8:45 PM
Horticulture prints and drawings produced by printers in Rochester, NY, and by printers elsewhere in the United States, England, and Europe.
3/21/24, 1:43 PM
The Friends of Mount Hope Newsletter began publication in 1981. Its articles inform members of important current events and projects in the cemetery, while providing essays about Rochester's history and the individuals buried in Mount Hope. Online access is the cooperative effort of the Friends of Mount Hope, the Department of Religion and Classics, and the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation of Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester. Many of the recent issues feature articles written by University of Rochester students participating in Professor Th. Emil Homerin's course REL 167: "Speaking Stones." The course brought students into Mount Hope Cemetery to examine grave stones and funerary architecture. Through detailed lectures, Professor Homerin introduced the students to western funeral ritual and practice, with emphasis on funerary architecture and cemeteries in the United States, and their relationship to religious and philosophical beliefs. Then, the class examined the iconography and epigraphy of specific graves and monuments in Mt. Hope cemetery. The final class project required each student to research and write about a particular grave of his or her own choosing in Mount Hope. Please note: All articles from the Epitaph are copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without the permission from the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery.
10/2/24, 5:43 PM
The University of Rochester’s Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation is well known for our in-depth holdings relating to women’s suffrage. And it is through our national and international reputation in this collecting area that our collections continue to grow. The acquisition of the Isabella Beecher Hooker archive exemplifies the beauty of knowing and sharing our strengths, and becoming, in the hearts and minds of others, the place where certain collections belong. The story of the cache of letters and other materials found in a barn in Connecticut is something that archivists and special collections librarians dream about. Because we have built our collections documenting women’s suffrage over many decades, and have that reputation in the community, it was natural that those materials come to our collections as well. The Isabella Beecher Hooker materials that we added to our collections, which already included other Isabella and John Hooker materials, was announced and publicized beginning in March of 2017. These materials represent new insights, new information, and new stories relating to the day-to-day struggles of women like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and many others who worked tirelessly on this issue. The collection captures aspects of the movement at a particularly complex and turbulent time, from around 1869-1880. Isabella Beecher Hooker was a fascinating and important activist both in Connecticut and on the national front. Her story is less known than others like Stanton and Anthony, but her role as a central mediator, coordinator, and leader has always been clear, and now is open to further exploration through this new acquisition. The items included here are a selection of this new trove of suffrage materials – letters and documents that help to further tell the story of the tireless, complex, fraught, and sometimes fruitless efforts to gain voting rights for women in the United States. The discovery of these manuscripts reminds us, too, that there are still important historical materials out there – whether it be in a barn, or an attic, or right under our noses – and that it takes an aware and engaged community to recognize and share these materials with archival repositories. Preserving, documenting, and making accessible the “stuff” of history is a beautiful partnership. We should all consider ourselves deputies in preserving our shared cultural heritage.
3/23/24, 5:30 PM
John McGraw was born in Ontario, Canada in 1835 to Irish parents. His family then moved to Western New York to work on the Erie Canal. He worked as a stonecutter and lived on Reynolds Street in the 8th Ward of Rochester, NY. He was a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War, serving in Company E of the 140th NY Volunteer Infantry. Though newspaper clippings refer to McGraw as a "conscript who volunteered", later writings refer to him as being drafted. John and his wife Mary had six children, two of whom died while he was serving in the Civil War. He was discharged from the Army with a paralyzed arm in 1865, and returned home to his wife and daughter, dying ten years later in 1875. Most of what we know about John McGraw comes from this collection of letters he wrote to Mary from the battlefields of Virginia to hospitals in Philadelphia and Maryland.
9/23/22, 6:07 PM
Kenneth B. Keating (1900-1975) was a lawyer, a congressman (Republican, 40th New York District) from 1947 to 1959, a senator from New York State from 1959 to 1965, an associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals from 1966 to 1969, an ambassador to India from 1969 to 1972, and an ambassador to Israel from 1973 to 1975. Included in this collection are recorded interviews and written transcripts from Keating's television programs, Let's Look at Congress and Senator Keating Reports where Keating interviewed noted political figures.
10/8/24, 6:24 PM
Nathaniel Rochester (1752-1831) was a prominent citizen of Hagerstown, Maryland when in 1803 he acquired part-interest in what is now part of downtown Rochester. He later moved to upstate New York, settling first in Dansville, then in East Bloomfield, and finally in Rochester in 1818. He lived the rest of his life in Rochester and played an active part in the affairs of the growing community that was named for him. He and his wife had twelve children and a number of descendants.
5/23/23, 6:22 PM
This digital archive preserves and makes public the rich histories included in the documentary Shoulders to Stand On and the Green Thursday radio program. Created through a partnership between River Campus Libraries and Rochester's Out Alliance and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, this project provides access to over 200 audio and video recordings that have been enhanced through transcriptions and/or closed captioning. University of Rochester graduate students cataloged, edited, and captioned the recordings. This project offers a model of how libraries and community organizations can partner to archive, preserve, and make accessible our shared cultural heritage.
5/28/24, 3:44 PM
The Empty Closet is one of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States. It was begun at the University of Rochester by Bob Osborn and Larry Fine, the founders of the UR student group, Rochester Gay Liberation Front, and later transferred to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (GAGV). In 2010, the Empty Closet celebrated its 40th year of continuous publication. As it always has, the newspaper covers local, state, national and international news, as well as issues pertaining to the LGBT community. For as long as it has been published, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has been collecting, preserving and making available paper copies of the Empty Closet. It was from these copies that preservation microfilm of the journal was created. Funding for the microfilming was provided as part of a grant from the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials. The digitization of the microfilm was paid for by the Gay Alliance. Please direct questions about the content of the Empty Closet to the Editor of the Empty Closet. Please direct questions about this website to [email protected]. Content of the Empty Closet is held by The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, all rights reserved. Current issues of the Empty Closet may be found here: http://www.gayalliance.org/emptycloset
6/26/24, 6:19 PM
The William Thomas Moncrieff Papers consists of letters written by Moncrieff. The principal correspondents are Robert William Elliston, James Winston, a business associate of Elliston's, and Charles Molloy Westmacott, proprietor and editor of The Age. The letters concern the writing and production of Moncrieff's plays, especially Giovanni in Ireland and an adaptation of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, the selling of Moncrieff's copyrights to plays, publicity for the plays, Moncrieff's litigation with Joseph Glossop, his monetary troubles, and his relations with Elliston and Winston, the managers of Drury Lane.
4/5/24, 11:51 AM
