On November 4, 1872 Susan B. Anthony and a group of women from Monroe County, New York asserted what they believed to be their "citizen's right to vote" and cast their ballots in the Presidential election. Their action represented the culmination of thirty years of suffrage activism. Three days later Anthony was tried and would be convicted of illegally voting.
Colonel Arthur Tracy Lee (1814-1879) served as a regimental officer in the US Eighth Infantry for twenty-three years, twelve in Texas. He joined the army in the late 1830s serving in various posts before arriving in Texas in 1849. Lee, at that time a captain, was part of a force sent to west Texas to protect white settlers who were encroaching on Indian territory. His regiment was encamped at various posts including Camp Worth, Fort Croghan and Fort Martin Scott.
During the 1700s, Charles M. de Lepee of France sought to provide a means of communication for those who were mute or deaf by devising a series of hand gestures known as a "manual alphabet," more familiarly known today as sign language. This 1856 advertisement for the "Single Handed Alphabet," was published by George W.
The University of Rochester Libraries—in collaboration with faculty members—has been steadily building its association with open access (OA).
In 1999, the Wachowskis gave us the sci-fi action film The Matrix. Most who saw it responded in the same way Keanu Reeves’ character does when he watches a man leap an impossible distance between two skyscraper rooftops: “Whoa.”
As we move solidly into the dread drears of Rochester winter, I expect we could all use a bit of a reminder that there are other colors in the world besides gray, white, and white-gray. We are all, I think, struggling a little bit- to find the energy, to remember the warmth of summer, to string five words coherently together without coffee. For this month as a gift from the land of history, please have this appropriately image-heavy post featuring a delightfully jarring juxtaposition of expectations: Behold. The Victorians’ love of technicolor.
In 1848, James W. Marshall was building John Sutter’s lumber mill in Coloma, California when glimmering from within the American River caught his eye. It turned out to be gold. And that turned out to be the beginning of the California Gold Rush.
If you asked the average American what they know about Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York State and a two-time Presidential loser, they will most likely point to the famous photograph of a grinning Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune that proclaims “Dewey Defeats Truman.” However, his work had an impact in many aspects of New York City, New York State, and national policy between 1930 and 1955.
Elizabeth G. Holahan was born in Mumford, NY, in 1903. She was raised in Rochester, and was educated at East High School and the old Mechanics Institute (now the Rochester Institute of Technology). Although she was by profession an interior decorator, her life-long interest was centered in the restoration and renovation of historical sites and buildings in the Rochester area. She served as president of the Landmark Society of Western New York from 1954 to 1962, and was president of the Rochester Historical Society from 1977 to 2000.
John Michael Wright (ca. 1617-ca. 1694)
Raggvaglio della Solenne Comparsa, fatta in Roma gli otto di Gennaio MDCLXXXVII. Rome: Domenico Antonio Ercole, [1687].
