Collections

150 Treasures from the Libraries in honor of the University of Rochester’s Sesquicentennial.

Documents and celebrates the history of theater at the University of Rochester.

Chronicles the growth of English and American publishers' binding from its infancy in the 1830s to its decline in the early 20th century.

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death, this exhibit invites a consideration of how Cervantes—through Don Quixote—has stirred visual artists to represent his most famous characters and their “adventures” over the centuries.

Photographs of the African-American activist throughout his life, as well as photographs that he took of the people and places he cared about.

Theatre posters, programs, letters and memorabilia related to the renowned Victorian-era theatrical partnership.

Explores the connections between Mt. Hope cemetery and the University.

Letters, photographs, printed material and memorabilia drawn from our extensive Anthony and woman suffrage collections.

Letters, books, photographs and ephemera commemorating the passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the vote.

Explores Wilson's life and legacy through photographs, correspondence, speeches, and audio and videorecordings.

Highlights of the John A. Williams archive: manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, notes, proofs, photographs, audio-visual materials, ephemera, diaries/journals and correspondence.

Correspondence, manuscript and typed copies of poems, manuscript and typed drafts of the studies of metrics, reading notes, critical notices of Verse, published and unpublished articles about Adelaide Crapsey, photographs and memorabilia.

Drafts, doodles, correspondence and other materials.

Typescripts and unrevised carbons of 110 poems and prose pieces by Carl Sandburg.

Correspondence, notebooks, manuscript drafts and typescripts, galley and page proofs of novels and plays, manuscript drafts and tear sheets of essays, writing notebooks, background files, financial records, and documents. 

Typescripts, correspondence, and more.

Correspondence, personal papers, memorabilia, ephemera, etc.

Biographical material, correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, and other miscellaneous materials.

Manuscripts, Articles, Typescripts, Photographs, and more.

Manuscripts, correspondence, audio/visual material, ephemera, and more.

Manuscripts, correspondence, speeches, and more.

Thousands of posters from over 100 countries, documenting efforts to educate/inform on AIDS.

A project seeking to digitize the Frederick Douglass materials held in the collections of the University of Rochester Library.

Digitized and transcribed letters to, from, and about Abraham Lincoln; writings about Abraham Lincoln; the F. Seward Diary.

Oral history interviews intended to preserve University of Rochester history.

Ten diaries spanning 1893-1914 illustrate the life of a single working woman set free by the bicycle and enlivened by friendships, the Kodak, the theatre, and a connection with the natural world.

All of the materials in the Post Family Papers housed in the University of Rochester Library.

A permanent resource for continuing conversation, learning and research around Rochester's role in civil rights history.

One of the most comprehensive records of the life and times of an extended family in nineteenth-century America, consisting of letters, bound volumes, photographs and other miscellaneous material.

Digitally reuniting four generations of Rochester’s Sibley Watson family, from Western Union to the founding of the Memorial Art Gallery and from silent films to electron microscopy.

Online full text of Middle English works, with glosses and notes.

A collection of Arthurian texts, images, interviews, and basic information.

An extensive annotated bibliography of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast texts, films, music, objects, and criticism.

Digital project devoted to the Crusades in English literature

A collection of texts, images, and information on the Robin Hood tradition.

Institutional repository that provides storage and access for dissertations, preprints and similar materials. 

Visualizing Chaucer documents through a bibliography and numerous images the history of illustrations of Chaucer’s works.

Digitally recreating the inventory of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment (the pre-eminent supplier of specimens to museums, colleges, and universities around the world from 1862 and 1906).

Individual drawings and/or photographs by other Rochester architects including James B. Arnold, James G. Cutler, Herbert Stern, Carl R. Traver, Ward Wellington Ward, as well as some work for Ellwanger & Barry Realty.

Preliminary sketches and studies, perspective sketches and renderings, working drawings on linen, blueprint copies, full scale details, photographs and specifications.

Everything from report cards at the age of twelve to surveys of Rochester city schools in the 1960's to materials related to the 2009 founding and ongoing programs of the Dr. Walter Cooper Academy.

Architectural drawings, specifications, correspondence, and business records for 765 architectural projects in Rochester and vicinity.

Meeting minutes, reports, letters, newsletters, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and promotional materials that document collaborative efforts within the religious community to meet human need, achieve mutual understanding, and work for social justice. 

A large number of publications from various organizations around the country as well as articles from magazines and journals reflecting his interest and involvement in race relations, poverty, urban development and other social justice issues. 

Correspondence, genealogies, photographs, and more.

Correspondence of Harvey Ellis and other Ellis family members; drawings by Harvey Ellis; some records of the H. and C.S. Ellis Architectural Firm; articles and architectural studies clipped from journals by Harvey Ellis; and family members' documents.

The papers and related items of two giants in the field of optics, Rudolf Kingslake and his wife Hilda Conrady Kingslake.

Includes speeches, corporate papers and information about products of the Eastman Kodak Company.

Samples of books and materials relating to the printing of books by the Leo Hart Printing Company and its successors.

Correspondence to and from Morgan, manuscripts of articles and speeches, manuscript notebooks and travel diaries, and the manuscripts of several of his books. Correspondents include Henry Adams, Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Darwin, Joseph Henry, Francis Parkman, and Herbert Spencer.

Writings, personal records, correspondence and more.

312 glass plate negatives thought to have been made between 1890-1910 by a member of the Garlock family in the small upstate New York town of Palmyra.

A permanent resource for continuing conversation, learning and research around Rochester's role in civil rights history.

Material associated with Rochester’s 1964 race riots and the recovery efforts that followed

Explores the connections between Mt. Hope cemetery and the University.

Preserves and makes public the rich histories included in the documentary Shoulders to Stand On and the Green Thursday radio program, providing access to over 200 audio and video recordings that have been enhanced through transcriptions and/or closed captioning.

Correspondence, newspapers, pamphlets and scrapbooks of material relating to the career of Thurlow Weed, 1797-1882.

Letters, books, photographs and ephemera commemorating the passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the vote.

A newsletter for the River Campus Libraries, published from 1997-2006.

Published on a regular, and later irregular, basis from 1945 until 1994. Its contributors were library staff and University of Rochester professors, as well as other scholars and researchers.

Digitized version of the entire run (1971-) of one of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States.

A collection of the latest news from the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries.

Issues of student newspaper, Campus Times, and the “CT” family tree (The Rochester Campus, The Campus, The Cloister Window, and Tower Times).

Administrative papers, moving image and audio recordings, maps, architectural drawings, and photographs related to the University of Rochester.

Designs for fourteen Hampden theatre productions between 1920-1936.

Over 4,000 negatives and photographs, part to the Eastman (George) Papers, dating back to the 1880s.

Horticulture prints and drawings produced by printers in Rochester, NY, and by printers elsewhere in the United States, England, and Europe.

312 glass plate negatives thought to have been made between 1890-1910 by a member of the Garlock family in the small upstate New York town of Palmyra.

Approximately 250 engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs depicting Rochester, localities in Monroe County and other sites in upstate New York.

131 posters advertising attractions coming to Rochester, New York theatres during the early 1880s.

An index of images related to the woman’s suffrage movement.

Information and images for approximately 1,400 broadsides, broadsheets, circulars, and printed forms.

Masters' theses written by University of Rochester students in the College of Education (now the Warner School of Education) between 1939 and 1979.

A-Z list of finding aids for our manuscript collections.

A collection of more than 50 platebooks, marketing tools for the nurserymen of the late 19th & early 20th centuries, containing color images of fruits, roses, etc. that reflected a nursery’s current inventory available for sale.

Several hundred small press poetry broadsides, including work by John Berryman, John Gardner, Louise Gluck, John A. Williams, Robert Bly, William Heyen, and UR's own Jarold Ramsey and Hyam Plutzik.

Masters' theses written by University of Rochester students in the School of Business Administration (now the Simon School) between 1956 and 1968.

A-Z list of finding aids for our University Archives collections.

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.

54 letters written by Edwin Booth to theatre critic and journalist John E. Russell during the years 1864 to 1881, concerning acting, theatre critics, Booth's theatre and family and social matters. 

Correspondence, documents, diaries, physician's "visiting books," household accounts, photographs, and memorabilia of various members of the Hayes-Coleman family of Canandaigua, New York.

Letters from John McGraw to his wife Mary from September, 1863 - March, 1865 while he was serving in Company E of the 140th NY Volunteer Infantry.

Diaries and correspondence that documents the lives of Bradford King and family, from 1811-1874.

Letters written by Moncrieff to Robert William Elliston, James Winston, a business associate of Elliston's, and Charles Molloy Westmacott, proprietor and editor of The Age.

Preliminary sketches and studies, perspective sketches and renderings, working drawings on linen, blueprint copies, full scale details, photographs and specifications.

Architectural drawings, specifications, correspondence, and business records for 765 architectural projects in Rochester and vicinity.

Meeting minutes, reports, letters, newsletters, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and promotional materials that document collaborative efforts within the religious community to meet human need, achieve mutual understanding, and work for social justice. 

A large number of publications from various organizations around the country as well as articles from magazines and journals reflecting his interest and involvement in race relations, poverty, urban development and other social justice issues. 

Correspondence, genealogies, photographs, and more.

Original pencil sketches and watercolors by Harvey Ellis; prints and ledgers pertaining to his architectural firm; scrapbook; family correspondence; printed material.

The papers and related items of two giants in the field of optics, Rudolf Kingslake and his wife Hilda Conrady Kingslake.

Includes speeches, corporate papers and information about products of the Eastman Kodak Company.

Samples of books and materials relating to the printing of books by the Leo Hart Printing Company and its successors.

Correspondence to and from Morgan, manuscripts of articles and speeches, manuscript notebooks and travel diaries, and the manuscripts of several of his books. Correspondents include Henry Adams, Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Darwin, Joseph Henry, Francis Parkman, and Herbert Spencer.

Papers of the 2nd United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Writings, personal records, correspondence and more.

Material associated with Rochester’s 1964 race riots and the recovery efforts that followed

Correspondence, speeches, personal papers, photographs, memorabilia, and other miscellaneous materials of the lawyer, politician, and 47th governor of New York State.

Correspondence, newspapers, pamphlets and scrapbooks of material relating to the career of Thurlow Weed, 1797-1882.

Links to our repository of digital projects and collections.

Comprised of one series: Business Papers. This series contains pages from the firm's design books that include buildings the architects designed themselves, as well as examples of structures they admired.

Information about collections, projects, and exhibits within the Rare Books and Special Collections department.

A collection of digital projects related to medieval studies, including The Camelot Project.

Recorded interviews and written transcripts from lawyer/congressman/senator/justice/ambassador Keating's television programs, Let's Look at Congress and Senator Keating Reports.

Preserves and makes public the rich histories included in the documentary Shoulders to Stand On and the Green Thursday radio program, providing access to over 200 audio and video recordings that have been enhanced through transcriptions and/or closed captioning.

A collection of nearly 400 video games for a variety of gaming platforms.

A collection of over 75,000 DVDs and streaming videos, including many popular film and television titles.