Rochester was first settled in 1811 and incorporated as the Village of Rochesterville on March 21, 1817. The name was changed to Rochester on April 12, 1822 and it was incorporated as a city on April 28, 1834.
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General History References
1817 An
act to incorporate the village of Rochesterville, in the county of
Genesee. March 21, 1817.
1821 An act to create a new County by the name of Monroe, from parts of the counties of Ontario and Genesee, and for other purposes. February 23, 1821.
1822 An
act to appoint a Commissioner to ascertain and establish the Courses and
Bounds of Buffalo and Carroll-streets, in the Village of Rochesterville,
in the county of Monroe, and for altering the Name of said Village.
April 12, 1822.
III. That from and after the first day of May next, the name of said
village and corporation, instead of Rochesterville, shall be Rochester.
[1824] A brief sketch of the life of Nathaniel Rochester, by Nathaniel Rochester | also here |
1827 A Directory of the Village of Rochester, March 1, 1827.
1828 Rochester in 1827. With a map of the village, by Jesse Hawley and Elisa Ely. February, 1828. | Map by E. Johnson |
1834 An act to incorporate the city of Rochester. April 28, 1834.
1835 Rochester in 1835. Brief sketches of the present condition of the city of Rochester, by Henry O'Reilly
1838 Settlement in the West: Sketches of Rochester by Henry O’Reilly | also here | | Map of the City of Rochester | North Part | South Part |
1839 The
North American Tourist
Page 109-112 Rochester
1841 America
historical, statistic and descriptive, by James Silk
Buckingham
Chapter III - Rochester
1846 "Sketch of Rochester, Monroe County, New-York," Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record 3(6):568-579 (November, 1846) | also here |
1847 Daily American Directory of the City of Rochester for 1847-8 | Map by E. Johnson |
1854 The Lives and Reminiscences of the Pioneers of Rochester and Western New York, by John Kelsey
1860 Early History of Rochester. 1810 to 1827, with comparisons of its growth and progress to 1860, by Jesse Hawley and Elisa Ely. | also here |
1868 Desultory notes and reminiscences of the city of Rochester: its early history, remarkable men and events, strange revelations of the murders, mysteries and miseries, casualties, curiosities and progress of this young and growing city, for the last 50 years, by an Octogenarian. [Lyman Barker Langworthy]
1877 History
of Monroe County, New York, by Prof. Wm. H. McIntosh | also here |
1884 Semi-centennial History of the City of Rochester: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, by William Farley Peck
1884 Rochester: A Story Historical by Jenny Marsh Parker
1890 City of Rochester illustrated: descriptive, historical and statistical review.
1894 Rochester; Its Founders and Founding, by Howard L. Osgood "Read before the Rochester Historical Society, April 13th, 1894."
1895 A History of the City of Rochester from the Earliest Times, by the Rochester Post Express. | also here |
1895 Landmarks of Monroe County, N.Y. by William F. Peck | also here | and here |
1899 Illustrated Rochester, 1898-1899
1899 The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics, by Adna Ferrin Weber
1900 Rochester ways, by Charles Mulford Robinson.
1902 Notable men of Rochester and vicinity : XIX and XX centuries, by George Chandler Bragdon
1902 The Biographical Record of the City of Rochester and Monroe County, New York
1905 Rochester, the flower city
1906 The Constitutional History of New York, Volume 1, 1609-1822, by Charles Zebina Lincoln | Volume 2. 1822-1894 | Volume 3. 1894-1905 | Volume 4. The Annotated Constitution | Volume 5. Tables of Statutes, Cases and Persons |
1907 Historical
sketches of western New York, by Elisha Vanderhoof
The Seneca Indians; Phelps and Gorham Purchase; Morris Reserve and Holland
Purchase; Mary Jemison; Jemima Wilkins; Joseph Smith, Jr. and Mormonism;
Morgan and Antimasonry; The Fox Sisters and Rochester Knockings.
1908 Rochester and Monroe County, New York : pictorial and biographical | also here |
1908 History of Rochester and Monroe County, New York: From the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907, Volume 1, by William Farley Peck | Volume 2 |
1909 Memorandum of a journey from Hartford to Niagara Falls and return in 1828: also Hartford to Mendon in 1821; printed from the original manuscript in the possession of Frank D. Andrews, by Nathaniel Goodwin
1911 A
History of Buffalo: Delineating the Evolution of the City,
Volume 1, by Josephus Nelson Larned | Volume
2 |
Volume
2, Pages 228-256: Rochester Past and Present, by Charles E.
Fitch
1915 Reminiscences of early Rochester: a paper read before the Rochester Historical Society, December 27, 1915, by Augustus Hopkins Strong.
1922 Rochester in History with portraits and Our Part in the World War
1923 Rochester, a good town to live in, by Edward Hungerford
1925 The pioneer days of Rochester, by Mosher Story Hutchins
1925 History of the Genesee country (western New York) comprising the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates, Volume 1, edited by Lockwood R. Doty | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 |
1937 Rochester and Monroe County, by Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration
1934 The book of the Rochester centennial
1938 The Rochester area in American History, by Dorothy S. Truesdale and Blake McKelvey.
1938 A Story of Rochester by Blake McKelvey
1939 "Historical Aspects of the Phelps & Gorham Treaty of July 4-8, 1788," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 1(1):1-24 (January, 1939)
1939 "Indian Allan’s Mills," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 1(4):1-24 (October, 1939)
1942 The standard of living in 1860 : American consumption levels on the eve of the civil war, by Edgar W. Martin
1945 Rochester The Water-Power City 1812-1854, by Blake McKelvey (full text) | Table of Contents |
1947 Rochester Past and Present: An animated scrap book for the edification of future local historians, by William Wilkinson, June 1947
1949 Rochester The Flower City 1855-1890, by Blake McKelvey (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1950 "Rochester at the Turn of the Century," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 12(1):1-24 (January, 1950) Horseless carriages, the Republican machine, leisure time, etc.
1954 "American Travel Accounts of Early Rochester," by Dorothy S. Truesdale, Rochester History 16(1):1-20 (January, 1954)
1956 Rochester The Quest for Quality 1890-1925, by Blake McKelvey (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1957 Smugtown, U.S.A, by G. Curtis Gerling, reprinted 1993. | Table of Contents | The book provides a casual history of business and social life in Rochester through the 1930's - 1950's. Gerling coined the term "Smugtown" for Rochester as a scathing indictment of the amount of rump-kissing he observed at the time. He is especially thorough when discussing the history of Rochester's millionaires, newspapers, and advertising.
1961 Rochester: an emerging metropolis, 1925-1961, by Blake McKelvey (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1961 "Nathaniel Rochester in North Carolina," by Durward T. Stokes, The North Carolina Historical Review 38(4):467-481 (October, 1961)
1963 Rochester: A City of Quality, by Rochester Gas & Electric (Video) | Rochester: A City of Poverty (video parody of 1963 film |
1968 The emergence of metropolitan America, 1915-1966, by Blake McKelvey
1968 "Traces of the Age of Homespun in Early Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 30(2):1-20 (April, 1968)
1969 The city in American history, by Blake McKelvey
1972 The Rochester I Know, by Henry W. Clune | Henry W. Clune Papers in RBSCP of RRL |
1973 American urbanization: a comparative history, by Blake McKelvey
1973 Rochester on the Genesee: The Growth of a City, by Blake McKelvey | Table of Contents | Second Edition 1993
1975 "Rise of the Empire State, 1790-1820," by David Maldwyn Ellis, New York History 56(1):4-27 (January, 1975)
1975 Crisis in Smugtown: A Study of Conflict, Churches, and Citizen Organizations in Rochester, New York 1964-1969, by P. David Finks, PhD Dissertation, The Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities
1979 A panoramic history of Rochester and Monroe County, New York, by Blake McKelvey
1981 Rochester; It's Got It! a large promotional booklet about why Rochester is a great place for businesses; from the Rochester Chamber of Commerce.
1984 Rochestrivia : an illuminating look at Rochester, by Pete Dobrovitz
1984 The Remaking of a City: Rochester, New York 1964-1984, by Lou Buttino and Mark Hare | Table of Contents |
1987 "Remembering An Old Canal Town," by Thomas X. Grasso and Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 49(4): (October, 1987)
1992 "At the Rapids on the Genesee Settlement at Castletown," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 54(3):1-24 (Summer, 1992)
1993 Rochester on the Genesee: The Growth of a City, Second Edition, by Blake McKelvey (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1999 Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State, by Laurence M. Hauptman
2005 "Rochester's Romantic Rogue: The Life and Times of Ebenezer Allan," by Donovan A. Shilling, The Crooked Lake Review (Summer 2005)
2007 Economic
Development in American Cities : The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda,
by Michael I. J. Bennett and Robert P. Giloth
Pages 159-188: Chapter 6 - Rochester: Two Faces of Regionalism, by
Pierre Claval
2007 American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, by Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis
2008 A Rochester Ramble: Twenty-Four Journeys Through Rochester's Past, by Donovan A. Shilling
2012 "The Presidential Election of 1840 in Rochester, New York," by Brian Schantz, Syracuse University Surface
2012 They Put Rochester On The Map: Personalities of Rochester's Past, by Donovan A. Shilling
2021 Recoving and Building a New Era for Everyone, Mayor Lovely A. Warren, 2020-21 State of the City
Historical Statistics of the United States
Indigenous
Peoples
1747 The
History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada: Which are Dependent on
the Province of New York, and are a Barrier Between the English and
the French in that Part of the World, Volume 1, by Cadwallader
Colden (1904 Edition) | Volume
2 |
1771 Map of the Country of the Six Nations
1805 "Religion for the White Man and the Red," Speech by Red Jacket
1824 Deh-he-wa-mis: Or, A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: Otherwise Called the White Woman, who was Taken Captive by the Indians in MDCCLV; and who Continued with Them Seventy Eight Years. Containing an Account of the Murder of Her Father and His Family; Her Marriages and Sufferings; Indian Barbarities, Customs and Traditions, by James Everett Seaver (1842) | 20th Edition (1918) | 22nd edition (1925) | Note the later editions have more details, corrections, and references.
1825 David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations
1851 League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois, Volume 1, by Lewis Henry Morgan | League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois, Volume 1, by Lewis Henry Morgan, new edition with additional material by Herbert Marshall Lloyd | Volume 2 | (1901) | Map of Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee-Ga, or the Territories of the People of the Long House in 1720 |
1868 The American Beaver and his works, by Lewis Henry Morgan
1884 Aboriginal occupation of the lower Genesee country, by George H. Harris, reprinted from Semi-centennial History of the City of Rochester: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, by William Farley Peck
1900 Aboriginal occupation of New York, by William Martin Beauchamp, February 1900. | also here with maps | Map of the early and recent sites of the aborigines of New York | Map of Territorial Divisions of the New York Aborigines about A.D. 1600 | Sorted by counties, several pages on Monroe County.
1905 A History of the New York Iroquois: Now Commonly Called the Six Nations, by William Martin Beauchamp
1906 "An Indian Civilization and its Destruction," by S.P. Moulthrop, Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 6:71-79 (1906)
1907 Historical
sketches of western New York, by Elisha Vanderhoof
The Seneca Indians; Phelps and Gorham Purchase; Morris Reserve and Holland
Purchase; Mary Jemison; Jemima Wilkins; Joseph Smith, Jr. and Mormonism;
Morgan and Antimasonry; The Fox Sisters and Rochester Knockings.
1916 "The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggested by Their Archeology," by Arthur C. Parker, American Anthropologist New Series 18(4):479-509 (Oct. - Dec., 1916) | also here |
1922 The Archeology of the Genesee Country, by Frederick Houghton
1923 The Algonkian occupation of New York, by Alanson Skinner and Arthur Caswell Parker
1930 "The Iroquois Indians and Their Lands Since 1783," by Esther V. Hill, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 11(4):335-353 (October, 1930)
1944 "The Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768," by Ray A. Billington, New York History 25(2):182-194 (1944)
1944 The pre-Iroquoian occupations of New York State, by William Augustus Ritchie
1945 The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian, by Esther Wagner Stearn and Allen E. Stearn
1951 "Smallpox and the Indians of the American Colonies," by John Duffy, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 25(4):324-341
1966 "Estimating aboriginal American population. An Appraisal of Techniques with a New Hemispheric Estimate," by Henry F. Dobyns, Current Anthropology 7(4):395-416 (September, 1966)
1976 "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America," by Alfred W. Crosby, The William and Mary Quarterly 33(2):289-299 (April, 1976)
1980 "Iroquois Cannibalism: Fact Not Fiction," by Thomas S. Abler, Ethnohistory 27(4):309-316 Special Iroquois Issue (Autumn, 1980)
1982 "The Search for Rochester's Earliest Inhabitants: On the Trail with George Harris, the Pathfinder," by William T. Davis, Rochester History 44(1 & 2):1-44 (January and April 1982)
1982 Map of Indian Trails about Rochester
1983 "The Structure of the Iroquois League: Lewis H. Morgan's Research and Observations," by Elisabeth Tooker, Ethnohistory 30(3):141-154 (Summer, 1983)
1984 The origin and development of the Seneca and Cayuga tribes of New York State, by Mary Ann Palmer Niemczycki
1994 The
World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America,
edited by Colin G. Calloway
Pages 115-145: Chapter 4. In a World of Warfare: Indians
and the Wars for Empire
Pages 146-169: Chapter 5. American Indians and the American
Revolution, 1775-1783
1994 Hidden cities : the discovery and loss of ancient North American civilization by Roger G. Kennedy | also here |
1997 "How Many People were here before Columbus," by Lewis Lord.
1998 European and Native American Warfare: 1675-1815, by Armstrong Starkey
1999 Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State, by Laurence M. Hauptman
2000 "A 'Civil' War? Rethinking Iroquois Participation in the American Revolution," by Karim M. Tiro, Explorations in Early American Culture 4:148-165 (2000)
2001 Rotting face : smallpox and the American Indian, by R.G. Robertson.
2001 Pox Americana : the great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82, by Elizabeth A. Fenn
2009 First peoples in a new world: colonizing ice age America, by David J. Meltzer
2011 "The Paradox of Plows and Productivity: An Agronomic Comparison of Cereal Grain Production under Iroquois Hoe Culture and European Plow Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Jane Mt. Pleasant, Agricultural History 85(4):360-492 (Fall 2011)
The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670 to 1870, by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791
Lewis Henry Morgan at 200: A Critical Appreciation
| Iroquois |
List of American Indian Reservations in New York | Beaver Wars (1629-1701) | Red Jacket |
| Wenrohronon |
Mary Jemison (Captured 1758) | The
Jesuit Relations |
North
American Fur Trade |
| Algonquians | Totiakton | Beaver Wars | Three Sisters (crops) |
| Treaty of Canandaigua (1794) | Treaty of Big Tree (1797) | Treaties of Buffalo Creek | Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784) |
The
French and New France
1696 Papers
relating to Count de Frontenac's expedition against the Onondagoes,
by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
1866 Memoir upon the late war in North America, between the French and English, 1755-60 : followed by observations upon the theatre of actual war, and by new details concerning the manners and customs of the Indians ; with topographical maps, Volume I, by Pierre Pouchot; translated by Franklin Benjamin Hough | Volume II |
1874 The First Visit of de La Salle to the Senecas, Made in 1669, by Orsamus Holmes Marshall
1884 French Exploration and Settlement in North America, and those of the Portuguese. Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700. Includes several good maps.
1885 Expedition of the Sieur de Champlain Against the Onondagas in 1615, by Orsamus Holmes Marshall
1900 The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and Land Titles, 1614-1800, by Francis Whiting Halsey
1905 The American Nation: France in America, 1497-1763, by Reuben Gold Thwaites
1910 France and England in North America, Volume I, by Francis Parkman
1917 An Old Frontier of France: The Niagara Region and Adjacent Lakes Under French Control, Volume 1, by Frank Hayward Severance | Volume 2 |
1919 Western New York under the French: an address delivered before the Morgan Chapter in Memorial Art Gallery, University Campus, Rochester, N.Y., December 19, 1919 / by Frank H. Severance. | also here |
1939 "Seneca 'Time of Troubles'," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 13(3):1-24 (July 1951)
1949 Samuel
de Champlain's Incursion Against the Onondaga Nation, by
Mansfield Joseph French
2003 French
and Indian War by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
British
North America
1677 "Observations
of Wentworth Greenhalgh, in a journey from Albany to ye Indians,
westward; begun May 20th, 1677, and ended July 14 following," from Papers
Relating to the Iroquois and Other Indian Tribes, 1666-1763, by
Parson Weed (1849)
1754 The Journal of Major George Washington: Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie to the Commandant of the French Forces in Ohio, by George Washington
1766 Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disposition now made & to be compleated as soon as practicable taken from the general distribution dated at New York 29th. March 1766.
1865 The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart, Volume 1, by William Leete Stone | Volume 2 |
2009 The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion, by Barbara Alice Mann
Revolution
and Settlement
1792 "Description
of the country between Albany & Niagara in 1792," from The
Documentary history of the state of New-York
1798 An act to enable aliens to purchase and hold real estate within this State under certain restrictions therein mentioned. April 2, 1798.
1799 "Description of the settlement of the Genesee Country in the State of New-York," from The Documentary history of the state of New-York
1804 A description of the Genesee country, in the state of New-York : in which the situation, dimensions, civil divisions, soil, minerals, produce, lakes and rivers, curiosities, climate, navigation, trade and manufactures, population, and other interesting matters relative to that country, are impartially described. To which is added, an appendix, containing a description of the military lands, by Robert Munro.[Charles Williamson] | also here |
1821 Travels in New-England and New-York, by Timothy Dwight
1822 A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New-York, by Sterling Goodenow
1824 Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783: Inclusive, Together with a Review of the State of Society and Manners of the First Settlers of the Western Country, by Joseph Doddridge and Narcissa Doddridge. Republished with new material in 1912 by John S. Ritenour and William Thomas Lindsey
1848 A History of the Purchase and Settlement of Western New York: And of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Presbyterian Church in that Section, by James Harvey Hotchkin
1849 Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York: embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company, Including reminiscences of the War of 1812; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., by O. Turner. | also here |
1851 History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and Morris Reserve, by Orasmus Turner. | also here |
1868 The Military Services and Public Life of Major-General John Sullivan: Of the American Revolutionary Army, by Thomas Coffin Amory
1874 Report of the Regents of the University, on the Boundaries of the State of New York, Volume 1
1877 Second Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York
1879 History of Sullivan's campaign against the Iroquois being a full account of that epoch of the revolution, by A. Tiffany Norton
1883 Two
Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America, by
Horace Andrew Wadsworth
James and William Wadsworth were among the earliest settlers in the
Genesee Valley.
1884 Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York, Volume II: Being a Continuation of Senate Document No. 108 of 1873 and Senate Document No. 61 of 1877
1887 Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779, by Frederick Cook and John Sullivan
1889 The Genesee tract. Cessions between New York and Massachusetts. The Phelps and Gorham purchase. Robert Morris. Captain Charles Williamson and the Pulteney estate, by George S. Conover
1891 The Title of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, by Howard Lawrence Osgood
1894 Robert Morris and the Holland Purchase, John Kennedy
1897 A history of the treaty of Big Tree: and an account of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the making of the treaty, held at Geneseo, N.Y., September the fifteenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, by Livngston County Historical Society.
1898 Sullivan's campaign in western New York 1779, by Simon L. Adler.
1899 The Genesee tract. Cessions between New York and Massachusetts. The Phelps and Gorham purchase. Robert Morris. Captain Charles Williamson and the Pulteney estate, by George S. Conover
1902 The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories; Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800, by Francis Whiting Halsey
1903 Robert Morris: Patriot and Financier, by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
1904 An
episode of the Sullivan campaign and its sequel, by Mary
Cheney Elwood.
The defeat of Lieut. Boyd's detachment at Groveland, and reinterment of
bodies of the slain in Rochester.
1906 "The Primary Causes of the Border Wars," by Francis W. Halsey, Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 6:23-28 (1906)
1906 "Sullivan's Campaign," by William Wait, Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 6:80-86 (1906)
1907 Historical
sketches of western New York, by Elisha Vanderhoof
The Seneca Indians; Phelps and Gorham Purchase; Morris Reserve and Holland
Purchase; Mary Jemison; Jemima Wilkins; Joseph Smith, Jr. and Mormonism;
Morgan and Antimasonry; The Fox Sisters and Rochester Knockings.
1922 "The Pulteney Purchase," by Paul D. Evans, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 3(2):83-104 (April, 1922)
1929 "New Sources on the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in 1779," Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 10(3):185-224 (July, 1929) | Part 2: 10(4):265-317 (October, 1929)
1930 Letters and papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army, edited by Otis G. Hammond.
1931 "Attempts to Form New States in New York and Pennsylvania 1786-1796," by Julian P. Boyd, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 12(3):257-270 (July, 1931)
1937 "A Yankee on the New York Frontier 1833-1851," by George F. Partridge, The New England Quarterly 10(4):752-77 (December, 1937)
1942 "Oliver Phelps," by Samuel H. Wandell, New York History 23(3):275-282 (July, 1942)
1960 "Mortgage Credit in the Phelps-Gorham Purchase," by Robert W. Silsby, New York History 41(1):3-34 (January, 1960)
1970 "The Sullivan Expedition: Success or Failure," by Donald R. McAdams, New-York Historical Society Quarterly 54(1):53-81 (January, 1970)
1970 Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company: The Opening of Western New York, by Willliam Chazanof. | The Great Survey | Many Applicants, Few Buyers | Reluctant Politician | Big Family | Roads and the Unhappy Taxpayer | The War of 1812 | The Bank of Niagara | The Grand Canal | "Give in Your Demission Yourself |
1973 The American Revolution considered as a social movement, by J. Franklin Jameson
1975 "The Pioneer Settler upon the Holland Purchase, and His Progress," by Orsamus Turner, Western Historical Quarterly 6(4):425-435 (October, 1975)
1977 "Robert Morris: Genesee Land Speculator," by Barbara A. Chernow, New York History 58(2):194-220 (April, 1977)
1979 "The Sullivan Campaign, A Bibliography," by James D. Folts, Jr., University of Rochester Library Bulletin 32 (Winter 1979)
1997 A Well-executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign Against the Iroquois, July-September 1779, by Joseph R. Fischer | full text of 1994 doctoral dissertation |
1998 "The Iroquois Indians and the Rise of the Empire State: Ditches, Defense, and Dispossession," by Laurence M. Hauptman, New York History 79(4):325-358 (October, 1998)
1999 Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State, by Laurence M. Hauptman
2005 George Washington's War on Native America, by Barbara Alice Mann
2005 The first way of war: American war making on the frontier, 1607-1814, by John Grenier
2005 "Charles Williamson: The Pulteney Estates in the Genesee Lands," by John H. Martin, from Saints, Sinners and Reformers: The Burned-Over District Re-Visited
2005 The unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America, by Gary B. Nash | also here |
2011 Massacre and Retribution: The 1779-80 Sullivan Expedition, by Ron Soodalter
The
War of 1812
1813 Map
of the Seat of War in North America
1882 A history of the war of 1812-'15 between the United States and Great Britain, by Rossiter Johnson.
1910 "The Genesee Valley in the Navy," by Rear Admiral Franklin Hanford, U.S.N., Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society 34:21-24 (1910)
1911 Notes on the Visits of American and British Naval Vessels to the Genesee River, 1809-1814, by Rear Admiral Franklin Hanford, USN
1942 "War on Lake Ontario: 1812-1815," by Ruth Ruth and Dorothy S. Truesdale, Rochester History 4(4):1-24 (October, 1942)
1969 British raids on Charlotte and Stone's dragoons, 1812-1814, by Philip G. Maples.
1991 "The
Genesee River During The War of 1812," by William Roemer, Rochester
History 53(4):1-30 (Fall, 1991)
2009 1812:
war with America, by Jon Latimer
| War of 1812 | Fort
Niagara |
Religion
and Spiritualism
1840 The
theory of William Miller: concerning the end of the world in 1843,
utterly exploded ; with some other essays on the same subject,
by Otis A. Skinner
1848 A report on the mysterious noises heard in the house of Mr. John D. Fox : in Hydesville, Arcadia, Wayne County, authenticated by the statements of the citizens of that place and vicinity /: A report on the mysterious noises heard in the house of Mr. John D. Fox : in Hydesville, Arcadia, Wayne County, authenticated by the statements of the citizens of that place and vicinity | 2005 reprint |
1849 Explanation and history of the mysterious communion with spirits : comprehending the rise and progress of the mysterious noises in western New-York, generally received as spiritual communications, by Eliab Wilkinson Capron
1851 Rochester knockings! : Discovery and explanation of the source of the phenomena generally known as the Rochester knockings, by George H. Derby
1852 Voices from the spirit world : being communications from many spirits from the spirit world, by the hand of Isaac Post, medium.
1865 Vol. I. Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebellion. Witchcraft, by Alfred Gale
1876 Fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Brick Church, Rochester, N.Y. : thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastor : November 28th, 1875.
1884 Nineteenth century miracles: or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth. A complete historical compendium of the great movement know as "modern spiritualism," by Emma Hardinge Britten ...
1904 The diocese of Western New York a history and recollections, by Charles Wells Hayes
1905 The Diocese of Western New York : history and recollections, Second Edition, by Charles Wells Hayes
1905 Christ Church, Rochester, Western New York: a story, chronological, A.D. 1854-A.D. 1905. by Jane Marsh Parker.
1905 Hydesville: the story of the Rochester knockings, which proclaimed the advent of modern spiritualism, by Thomas Olman Todd
1907 Historical
sketches of western New York, by Elisha Vanderhoof
The Seneca Indians; Phelps and Gorham Purchase; Morris Reserve and Holland
Purchase; Mary Jemison; Jemima Wilkins; Joseph Smith, Jr. and Mormonism;
Morgan and Antimasonry; The Fox Sisters and Rochester Knockings.
1912 The Jews of Rochester: an historical summary of their progress and status as citizens of Rochester from early days to the year nineteen hundred and twelve from unpublished records prepared by the late Isaac A. Wile ; compiled by Isaac M. Brickner.
1915 "Catholic Beginnings in the Diocese of Rochester," by Frederick J. Zwierlein," The Catholic Historical Review 1(3):282-298 (October, 1915)
1916 Four-score years: a contribution to the history of the Catholic Germans in Rochester, by Thomas W. Mullaney.
1922 The history of utopian thought, by Joyce Oramel Hertzler
1950 The Burned-over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850, by Whitney R. Cross, reprinted 1965 and 2015 | Table of Contents | also here |
1976 "Religion and Society: A Shopkeeper's Millennium," by Paul E. Johnson, The Wilson Quarterly 3(2):86-95 (1976)
1978 A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, by Paul E. Johnson | Table of Contents | Revised edition 2004 |
1983 Revivalism,
Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District: The
Trial of Rhoda Bement, by Glenn C. Altschuler and Jan M.
Saltzgaber | also here
|
1986 Crucible
of the Millennium: The Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s,
by Michael Barkun
1989 New
religions and the theological imagination in America, by
Mary Farrell Bednarowski
1991 "The Fanatic and the
Prophetess: Religious Perfectionism in Western New York, 1835–1839,"
by James D. Folts, New York History 72(4):357-387 (October,
1991)
1998 The African
American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940,
by Ingrid Overacker
2001 Grassroots
Reform in the Burned-Over District of Upstate New York: Religion,
Abolitionism, and Democracy, by Judith Wellman
2005 "Saints,
Sinners and Reformers: The Burned-Over District Re-Visited," by
John H. Martin, The Crooked Lake Review (Fall 2005)
2006 The
Goddess lives in upstate New York: breaking convention and making
home at a North American Hindu temple, by Corinne G.
Dempsey. In Rush, New York, just south of Rochester.
2009 "Radical
Transmissions: Isaac and Amy Post, Spiritualism, and Progressive
Reform in Nineteenth-Century Rochester," by Caitlin Powalski, Rochester
History 71(2):1-32 (Fall, 2009)
2010 "The Urban Threshold and
the Second Great Awakening: Revivalism in New York State, 1825-1835,"
by Richard Lee Rogers, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
49(4):694-709 (December, 2010)
2011 The
myth of American religious freedom, by David Sehat
2015 "The
sisters who spoke to spirits: How two mischievous girls gave birth to
a religion," by Ada Calhoun, Salon (September 14, 2015)
2015 Upstate
Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State,
by Joscelyn Godwin | also here
|
Religion
and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress
1818 The
freemason's monitor or, Illustrations of masonry: in two parts,
by Thomas Smith Webb
1826 Illustrations of masonry: by one of the fraternity who has devoted thirty years to the subject. Capt. Wm. Morgan's exposition of freemasonry, republished with the additon of engravings, showing the Lodge-room signs, grips and masonic emblems. | also here |
1829 A narrative of the anti-masonick excitement, in the western part of the state of New-York, during the years 1826, '7, '8, and a part of 1829, by Henry Brown
1829 Light on masonry: a collection of all the most important documents on the subject of speculative free masonry: embracing the reports of the Western committees in relation to the abduction of William Morgan ... with all the degrees of the order conferred in a master's lodge, as written by Captain William Morgan ... / By Elder David Bernard.
1832 Letters on masonry and anti-masonry: addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams, by William L. Stone.
1880 American political-antimasonry, with its "Good-enough Morgan." "One of the most singular features in American social, religious and political history, as well as in the annals of the masonic institutions throughout the world" ... Brief notices of some events in the history of the political-antimasonic excitement, by Henry 0'Rielly ... Including also notices of indictments and civil suits for alleged libels concerning the "Good enough Morgan" and its "Inventor" [i.e. Thurlow Weed]
1926 "Colorful Scene Presented as 8,000 Klansmen Gather in East Rochester Field," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, September 26, 1926, Page 26.
1952 "Rochester’s Political Trends: An Historical Review," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 14(2):1-24 (April, 1952)
1958 "Decline of Whiggery and the Formation of the Republican Party in Rochester," by Aida DiPace Donald, Rochester History 20(2):1-19 (April 1958)
1970 "A Study of Attitudes in Church and School-Sponsored Girl Scout Troops toward Four Minority Groups," by Rosaline G. Duane, M.A. Thesis, Sociology, University of Rochester, 1970.
1991 "The Disappearance of William Morgan," by Margaret Stoler, Rochester History 53(4):31-44 (Fall, 1991)
| Freemasonry | Anti-Masonry | William Morgan | Thurlow Weed |
| Anti-Masonic
Party |
Know
Nothing |
Henry
O'Reilly |
Primary
and Secondary Education
1827 An
act to incorporate the Rochester High School, in the County of Monroe.
March 15, 1827.
1849 The Massachusetts System of Common Schools, by Horace Mann
1872 Annals of Public Education in the State of New York, from 1626 to 1756, by Daniel J. Pratt
1885 Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Education, Rochester Public Schools
1893 Western New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes, Rochester, N.Y. : historical sketch, 1876-1893.
1894 Public schools of Rochester, New York: kindergarten, primary, intermediate, grammar, free academy.
1904 A History of Education in the United States, by Edward Grant Dexter
1904 The Public School: History of Common School Education in New York State from 1633 to 1904, by Charles E. Fitch
1905 The New York Public School: Being a History of Free Education in the City of New York, by Archie Emerson Palmer
1909 Description of Rochester factory schools, by New York (State) Division of Vocational and Extension Education
1910 A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil War, by Charles Franklin Thwing
1911 Statistical Report No. 1, Rochester School Census Board (August 1, 1911). Includes a list of "Children Arranged According to Country of Birth, Occupation, Sex, and Certain Age Classifications,"
1913 Outline course of study of the public schools of the city of Rochester, New York
1913 Vocational Education, Rochester Public Schools | also here |
1914 Course of study in English
1914 Outline Course of Study of the Public Schools of the City of Rochester, New York
1921 Stories of Rochester, by M. Frances Logan, Rochester Department of Public Instruction
1935 A history of the public schools of Rochester, New York 1813-1935
1941 Radio and the teaching of English : a study of the 1OA English curriculum in Rochester, New York, by Seerley Reid.
1942 A revaluation of the Rochester method, by Edward L. Scouten, The Rochester school for the deaf
1970 The Political Education of Children in the Rochester Public Schools, 1899-1917: An Historical Perspective on Social Control in Public Education, by Edward Willard Stevens, Jr., Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Rochester, 1970.
1971 "School personnel and political socialization Rochester, New York, 1900-1917," by Edward W. Steyens, Urban Education 6(2/3):197-213 (July, 1971) (Discusses how the school board, teachers, and other employees, and textbooks and the course of study developed cultural attitudes in children.)
1993 "Emma Willard's Idea Put to the Test: The Consequences of State Support of Female Education in New York, 1819-67," by Nancy Beadie, History of Education Quarterly 33(4):543-562 (Winter, 1993) Special Issue on the History of Women and Education
1993 Schooling for "good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920, by Kenneth Teitelbaum | also here | During the first two decades of this century, American socialists organized weekend schools for children to foster social justice, working-class consciousness and solidarity, and activism. Kenneth Teitelbaum explores the historical development, organization, institutional characteristics, and curricula of these alternative educational settings, particularly those in New York City, Rochester, and Milwaukee.
1997 "Rochester's Reforms: The Right Prescription?" by Christine E. Murray, Gerald Grant and Raji Swaminathan, The Phi Delta Kappan 79(2):148-155 (October, 1997)
2002 "The Rochester School for the Deaf," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History, 64(1):1-24 (Winter, 2002)
2005 "The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Separation of Church and State," by Tracy Fessenden, Church History 74(4):784-811 (December, 2005)
2008 "Tuition Funding for Common Schools: Education Markets and Market Regulation in Rural New York, 1815–1850," by Nancy Beadie, Social Science History 32(1):107-133 (Spring, 2008)
2009 "Finding True North: A Portrait of Two Schools in Rochester, New York," by Libby Woodfin, Schools: Studies in Education 6(2):187-206 (Fall, 2009)
2022 "Rochester ed reporter: 'Let's stop lying about our schools'," by Evan Dawson, Rochester City Newspaper, February 24, 2022
2022 Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York, by Justin Murphy
| Rochester City School District | Private Schools in Monroe County | Rochester Academy Charter School |
| Rochester City School District | The Harley School | Allendale Columbia School |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester | Rochester
School for the Deaf |
New York State Education Department |
Higher
Education | Also see History
of the University of Rochester Campuses and Buildings |
1900 History
of Higher Education in the State of New York, by Sidney
Sherwood
1923 Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, General Information 1923-1924
1925 Rochester and Colgate; Historical Backgrounds of the Two Universities, by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger
1927 Rochester, the making of a university, by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger, with an introduction by President Rush Rhees.
1951 "The First Hundred Years of the University of Rochester," by John R. Slater, New York History 32(2):165-171 (April, 1951)
1965 The rise of universities, Charles Homer Haskins
1967 "A University Dream that Failed," by Arthur J. May, New York History 48(2):160-181 (April, 1967)
1977 A History of the University of Rochester 1850-1962, by Arthur J. May
1986 "The University of Rochester," by Kenneth F. Wood, Minerva 24(2/3):319-323 (June, 1986)
2009 George Eastman Tribute (video)
Temperance
and Prohibition
1794 An
Inquiry Into the Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon the Human Body and
Mind: With an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies
for Curing Them, by Benjamin Rush
1830 Six Sermons on Intemperance. Delineating Its Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy, by Lyman Beecher
1830 First Annual Report of the New-York State Society for the Promotion of Temperance
1907 A history of the brewery and liquor industry of Rochester, N.Y
1923 "The Genesis and Development of the Early Temperance Movement in New York State," by John A. Krout, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 4(2):78-98 (April, 1923)
1985 "Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade," Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Signs 10(3):460-476 (Spring, 1985)
1988 Booze, Boats and Billions: Smuggling Liquid Gold, by C. W. Hunt
1992 "A Brief History of Brewing In Rochester," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 54(2):1-24 (Spring 1992)
1994 Drink and the Victorians: the temperance question in England, 1815-1872, by Brian Howard Harrison
2017 John Barleycorn Must Die: Alcohol and Temperance in Early Rochester, by Christopher Brennan
2017 "A Rum War on Lake Ontario," by James A. Termotto, Sr.
2019 Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition? One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias, January 13, 2019, by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Woman's New York State Temperance Society
| Temperance Movement | Prohibition | Genesee Brewing Company | Legalization
of Marijuana |
| Carrie Nation | Women's
Christian Temperance Union |
Rohrbach Brewing Company |
Women's
Rights and Suffrage
1790 A
vindication of the rights of women, by Mary Wollstonecraft
1821 Views of Society and Manners in America, by Frances Wright.
1837 Society in America, Volume 1, by Harriet Martineau. | Volume 2 | "Women are assuming their place as thinking beings, not in despite of the men, but chiefly in consequence of their enlarged views and exertions as fathers and legislators."
1838 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman, by Sarah Grimke.
1844 "Report of the committee on the judiciary, on petitions asking the passage of a law for the protection of married women," February 26, 1844. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 3, Number 96.
1845 Woman in the Nineteenth Century, by Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women"
1846 Report
of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of
the Constitution of the State of New-York, 1846 (see 1997
article below)
Page 646: Memorial of six ladies in Jefferson County, asking for the
extension of the elective franchise to women, August 8, 1846.
1846 The Rights and Condition of Women, by Samuel J. May. | also here |
1848 An Act of the More Effectual Protection of the Property of Married Women, April 7, 1848 (New York State)
1848 Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th & 20th, 1848 (Reprinted 1870) Includes Declaration of Sentiments, July 20, 1848.
1848 Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, delivered at Seneca Falls & Rochester, New York, July 19th & August 2d, 1848. (1870)
1849 An act to amend an act, entitled "An act of the more effectual protection of the property of married women," passed April 7, 1848. April 11, 1849. (New York State)
1852 The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Syracuse, September 8th, 9th, & 10th, 1852. This was the first convention attended by Susan B. Anthony.
1863 The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work, by Virginia Penny. Includes several Rochester references.
1868 The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper, was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. Published between January 8, 1868 and February, 1872,
1869 The Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill
1870 Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Conventions, Held at Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July and August, 1848. Also see 1848 documents above.
1881 History
of Woman Suffrage, Volume 1, 1848-1861 edited by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted
Harper
| Volume
2 1861-1876 | Volume
3 18t6-1885 | Volume
4 1883-1900 | Volume
5 1900-1920 | Volume
6 1900-1920 |
1898 Fiftieth anniversary of the first Woman's Rights Convention held in Rochester, N.Y : Central Church, Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29 : souvenir program.
1910 Laws Discriminating against Women in the State of New York, by Harriette M. Johnston-Wood
1948 "Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, 1848," University of Rochester Library Bulletin 4(1) (Autumn 1948)
1953 "Susan B. Anthony and John Brown," by Alma Lutz, Rochester History 15(3):1-16 (July, 1953)
1960 American suffrage: from property to democracy, 1760-1860, by Chilton Williamson. Chapter 9 focuses on Suffrage in New York
1970 Birth control in America: the career of Margaret Sanger, by David M. Kennedy
1982 In the eyes of the law: women, marriage, and property in nineteenth-century New York, by Norma Basch
1987 "Organizing Womanhood: Women's Culture and the Politics of Woman Suffrage in New York State, 1865-1917," by David Kevin McDonald, PhD Dissertation, SUNY Stony Brook
1997 "1846 Petition for Woman's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention," by Jacob Katz Cogan and Lori D. Ginzberg, Signs 22(2):427-439 (Winter, 1997)
1997 When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973, Leslie J. Reagan
1999 Angelina Grimke?: rhetoric, identity, and the radical imagination, by Stephen H. Browne
2005 The qualities of a citizen: women, immigration, and citizenship, 1870-1965, by Martha Mabie Gardner
2011 Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872, by Nancy A. Hewitt | also here |
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, NY
Slavery.
Abolition, and Race Relations
1688 Germantown
Friends' protest against slavery
1775 African Slavery in America, [by Thomas Paine]
1799 An act for the gradual abolition of slavery. March 29, 1799.
1836 Letters on American Slavery, by John Rankin
1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
1847 The North Star, a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In 1851, Douglass merged the North Star with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper to form Frederick Douglass' Paper. Issues on line at Rochester Public Library | Accessible Archives | Gale Newspapers | Readex |
1851 "The higher law" in its application to the Fugitive slave bill A sermon on the duties men owe to God and to governments, by John C. Lord
1852 Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, by Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852. "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1854 The claims of the Negro ethnologically considered [electronic resource] : An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854, by Frederick Douglass.
1855 My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
1856 African Slavery in America, by Charles Jared Ingersoll
1857 Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, by Austin Steward
1858 "On the Irrepressible Conflict," Speech by William Henry Seward delivered at Rochester, NY, October 25, 1858
1862 Origin and objects of the slaveholders' conspiracy against Democratic principles, as well as against the national union, by Henry O'Reilly (October, 1862)
1879 Gerrit Smith: a biography, by Octavius Brooks Frothingham.
1882 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass | New revised edition, 1892 |
1900 Slavery in New York: a historical sketch, by A Judd Northrup | also here |
1903 An authentic history of the Douglass monument; biographical facts and incidents in the life of Frederick Douglass, by J. W. Thompson
1905 A correct history of the John Brown invasion at Harper's Ferry, West Va., Oct. 17, 1859, by John H. Zittle
1916 A reminiscence of anti-slavery days, by Horace McGuire. Read before the Rochester Historical Society, October 27, 1916.
1926 Directory Published by the Negro Business League of Rochester, NY
1925 Free
Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830: Together with a
Brief Treatment of the Free Negro, by Carter Godwin Woodson
Page xliii: Out of a membership of 114, the Negro Baptist Church of
Rochester lost 112 including the pastor.
1938 Mapping Inequality - Rochester | image |
1939 Second Report of the New York State Temporary Commission on the Condition of the Colored Urban Population, February 1939, Legislative Document No. 69 (1939)
1939 "State Commission Charges Widespread Racial Discrimination Practiced," Democrat and Chronicle, February 29, 1939, Page 4.
1939 "Legislative Attempts to Eliminate Racial and Religious Discrimination," Columbia Law Review 39(6):986-1003 (June 1939)
1939 City Directory of Negro Business and Progress 1939-1940, by Howard Coles, includes "Negro Progress in Rochester 1816-1939"
1945 "Ives-Quinn Act --the law against discrimination," by Terry Lichtash, St. John's Law Review 19(2):170-176 (April, 1945) Outlawed employment discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin.
1947 "The
New York State Commission Against Discrimination: A New Technique
For an Old Problem," The Yale Law Journal 47:837-863 (1947)
Page 841: The Temporary Commission on the Condition of the Colored
Urban Population in its 1939 Report stated that it "was at a loss to
understand how Negroes in ... the up-State region managed to make a living
and to survive starvation."
Note 23. 2 Rep. N.Y.S. Temp. Comm. on Condition of Colored Urban Pop. 41
(Leg. Doc. No. 69, 1939). In Rochester, only 70 Negroes were employed of
over 35,000 employees in "large factories and wholesale and retail
establishments"; in Syracuse, 15, in 10,228; in the Triple Cities, 4 in
28,932; in Poughkeepsie, 12 Negroes were employed in one plant, while in
others employing a total of 5,252, there were only 7 Negro employees.
1950 "New York State Law Against Discrimination - Operation and Administration," by Morroe Berger, Cornell Law Review 35(4):747-796 (Summer 1950)
1953 "Susan B. Anthony and John Brown," by Alma Lutz, Rochester History 15(3):1-16 (July, 1953)
1958 Negroes in five New York cities : a study of problems, achievements, and trends, by New York State Commission for Human Rights. Research Division;
1959 "Lights and Shadows in Local Negro History," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 21(4):1-27 (October, 1959)
1961 "Antislavery Legislation in New York," by Edgar J. McManus, The Journal of Negro History 46(4):207-216 (October, 1961)
1964 The Rochester Riots of 1964: A scrapbook, Volume 1 | Volume 2 |
1964 July '64 Unrest in Rochester New York, 2006 documentary about the 1964 riots. (54 minutes) | also here | and here | Discussion guide |
1964 Rochester Riot (documentary video)
1965 “Anatomy of a Riot!” by Arthur Whitaker, The Crisis 72(1):20-25 (January, 1965)
1965 The Rochester riots: a crisis in civil rights, juvenile delinquency, or "cityatrics"? by Blake McKelvey.
1965 Areas where rioting occurred Rochester, New York, July 1964. by Monroe County Human Relations Commission
1965 "The White Man's Guilt," by James Baldwin, Ebony (August 1965)
1965 Riots of July, 1964
1969 "Majority Tyranny in Tocqueville's America: The Failure of Negro Suffrage in 1846," byJohn L. Stanley, Political Science Quarterly 84(3):412-435 (September, 1969)
1970 Business Corporations and the Black Man, An Analysis of Social Conflict: The Kodak-FIGHT Controversy, by S. Prakash Sethi
1971 The Black Minority in Early New York, by David Kobrin
1972 Saul Alinsky Playboy Interview “Maybe I’m uninformed, but as far as I know the only thing Kodak has done on the race issue in America is to introduce color film.”
1984 "Growing Agitation, A: Rochester Before, During and After the Civil War," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 46(1 & 2):1-40 (January & April, 1984)
1984 The
Remaking of a City: Rochester, New York 1964-1984, by Lou
Buttino and Mark Hare | Table of
Contents |
1985 "Still Fighting the Good Fight," Democrat
and Chronicle Upstate Magazine, July 21, 1984, Page
4 | page
5 | page
6 | page
7 | page
8 | page
9 | page
16 |
Good article on Franklin Florence.
1987 Crabgrass
frontier : the suburbanization of the United States, by
Kenneth t. Jackson
Page 208: FHA racial requirements
Pages 234-245: Levittown and racial hegemony
1990 "The Search for Elizabeth
Jennings, Heroine of a Sunday Afternoon in New York City," by John
H. Hewitt, New York History 71(4):386-415 (October, 1990)
Young black schoolteacher thrown off a whites-only horse car in NYC,
Chester A. Arthur took her case and won
1991 "Housing
Conditions as a Predictor for Riot: Rochester, New York, 1964," by
Carolyn S. Vacca and Wanda Ellen Wakefield, Afro-Americans in New
York Life and History 15(2):45 (July 31, 1991)
1991 The
Great migration in historical perspective : new dimensions of race,
class, and gender, by Joe William Trotter
1991 Black exodus: the great
migration from the American South, by Alferdteen Harrison
1992 "Goin’
North," by Victoria Sandwick Schmitt, Rochester History
54(1):1-32 (Winter, 1992)
1997 "Kodak, FIGHT, and the
Definition of Civil Rights in Rochester, New York: 1966-1967," R.
D. G. Wadhwani, The Historian 60(1):59-75 (Fall, 1997)
1997 Journey to freedom: the African-American great migration, by Maurice Isserman
1999 Angelina Grimke?: rhetoric, identity, and the radical imagination, by Stephen H. Browne
2000 "Searching
for a 'Sound Negro Policy': A Racial Agenda for the Housing Acts of
1949 and 1954," by Arnold R. Hirsch, Housing Policy Debate
11(2):393-441 (2000)
2001 Brotherhoods
of color: black railroad workers and the struggle for equality,
by Eric Arnesen
2001 University of Rochester
Frederick Douglass project
2002 Rochester black freedom
struggle online project, by Phyllis Andrews
2003 Jim
Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship,
1777-1877, edited by David N. Gellman and David Quigley |
also here
|
2005 "When Harvard College's
Dormitories Were Segregated by Race," by Andrew Schlesinger, The
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 49:97-98 (Autumn, 2005)
2005 Black
is a country: race and the unfinished struggle for democracy,
by Nikhil Pal Singh
2009 "Frederick
Douglass and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry," by Alan Singer,
Social Education 73(2):57-48 (March, 2009)
2009 Jim
Crow in New York, by Erika Wood and Liz Budnitz
2010 "Rochester:
A Transnational Community for Blacks Prior to the Civil War," by
dann j Broyld, Rochester History 72(2):1-28 (Fall 2010)
2010 The
warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration,
by Isabel Wilkerson
2010 The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle
Alexander
2010 ‘Strike the hammer
while the iron is hot’: The Black freedom struggle in Rochester, NY,
1940-1970, by Laura Warren Hill, PhD Dissertation in History,
State University of New York at Binghamton,
2011 "Advancement Comes Slowly:
African American Employment in Rochester, New York During the Great
Migration," by Jennifer Lemak, New York History
92(1/2):78-98 (Winter/Spring 2011) | also here
|
2011 “'We are black folks first': the black freedom struggle in Rochester, NY and the making of Malcolm X," by Laura Warren Hill, The Sixties 3(2):163-185 (2011) | pdf |
2012 Take a Picture: The Real Alinsky and the Fall of Rochester
2012 The great migration north, 1910-1970, by Laurie Lanzen Harris
2013 "Narratives of a Riot: The July 1964 Rochester, NY 'Race Riot',” by Jessica A. Saltzberg, Fire!!! 2(2):48-77 (2013) Expanding the Narrative: Exploring New Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement Fifty Years Later
2013 Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution, by David Harvey
2014 The half has never been told: slavery and the making of American capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist
2017 Race and Place in the Flower City: A Case Study of Perpetual Marginalization through Urban Planning, by Brennon Thompson
2017 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
2018 "The Quest for Black Voting Rights in New York State," by Bennett Liebman, Albany Government Law Review 11:386-421 (2018)
2019 The
Motives for Exclusionary Zoning, by Conor Dwyer Reynolds (September
2019)
Includes a lot of information about Rochester and Monroe County.
2020 Frederick Douglass’s American Identity Politics, by Peter C Myers | pdf |
2020 "Brighton
neighbors revoke historic, racist deed restrictions," Rochester
City Newspaper, December 28, 2020
Residents of Brighton’s Meadowbrook neighborhood off of South Winton Road
have successfully filed an amendment to revoke racist language in their
deeds that historically forbade the sale of lots or homes in the tract to
Black people.
Meadowbrook was built by Kodak’s real estate arm and the racial covenant
was contained within the 1929 certificate of restrictions, which is
attached to the deeds for all properties in the tract.
2021 Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970, by Laura Warren Hill
2021 A Tale of Two Cities Redlining and Racist Policies in Rochester, New York
2021 No Time for Excuses: It's Time for Action | Report of the Commission on Racial and Structural Equity. March 12, 2021
2021 "Strike the Hammer: The black freedom struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970," by Laura Warren Hill
2022 "Rochester ed reporter: 'Let's stop lying about our schools'," by Evan Dawson, Rochester City Newspaper, February 24, 2022
2022 Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York, by Justin Murphy
2022 "Gap
Mangione: 'A lot of logs' on the fire that led to 1964 riots," by
Gap Mangione as told to Jeff Spevak, WXXI News, August 19, 2002.
The Pythodd Club on Clarissa Street
Race and Ethnicity in Rochester, New York
Admiration and Ambivalence: Frederick Douglass and John Brown
Digitizing Frederick Douglass (RRL Rare Books and Special Collections)
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, exhibition at the New York Historical Society
Black
Freedom Struggle in the United States
Civil
War
1858 "On the
Irrepressible Conflict," Speech by William Henry Seward delivered at
Rochester, NY, October 25, 1858
1861 The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern Rebellion, by Orville James Victor | Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 |
1861 By-laws of the Rochester Union Grays, Company R, 54th Regiment, N.Y.S.M.
1862 "The Rochester Rifle Battery," Rochester Union and Advertiser, August 13, 1862, Page 2 | Picture of Requa Billinghurst Rifle Battery make at this demonstration | Recruiting Poster for Barnes Rifle Battery |
1862 Presentation of colors to the 140th regiment N. Y. S. V, by the Young ladies of Rochester, Sept., 1862.
1863 "The Draft in Rochester.; From the Rochester Express, July 24," The New York Times, July 27, 1863, Page 3
1890 New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865
1894 A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols. from 1862-1894, by George H. Washburn
1900 New York at Gettysburg, by William F. Fox
1911 The Military Memoirs of Captain Henry Cribben of the 140th New York Volunteers, by Henry Cribben
1912 The Union Blues. A brief history of the corps and its life, by William H. Samson. Militia unit established in 1861 by socially prominent Rochesterians.
1944 Rochester in the Civil War, by Blake McKelvey, Publications of the Rochester Historical Society, Volume 22
1961 "Rochester’s Part in the Civil War," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 23(1):1-24 (January 1961)
1991 "The Civil War Draft in Rochester – Part One," by Donald M. Fisher, Rochester History 53(1):1-24 (Winter, 1991) | Part Two 53(2):1-32 (Spring 1991) |
1998 Dr.
Josephus Requa Civil War Dentist And The Billinghurst-Requa Volley Gun,
by John M. Hyson and Margaret Requa DeFrancisco
Requa was a Rochester dentist.
1999 A Rochester Dentist Helped Save The Union: The Story of Dr. Josephus Requa (1833-1910), a dentist, and his Civil War Machine Gun,by Warren Kling
2011 "A Hard Road to Travel out of Dixie, Part 1," by W.H. Sheldon, Rochester History 72(2):1-31 (Fall 2011) | Part 2 74(1):1-32 (Spring 2012)
2013 "The Civil War Years: Rochester and the Civil War," by Alan Schlageter
2013 "On Cemetery Ridge," Rochester Review
Rochester
Civil War veterans: roster and scrapbook, Grand Army of the
Republic, Dept. of New York and auxiliaries. Grand Army of the Republic,
Dept. of New York [1948]. Includes: Personal war sketches of the members
of E.G. Marshall Post No. 397 of Rochester [by Richard Curran] which was
presented to the Post in 1892.
Civil War Medicine and the RCH
The University of Rochester and the Civil War
| Civil War | Patrick O'Rorke | Elmira
POW Camp |
Billinghurst Requa Battery |
Labor
1897 Illustrated
history of the Rochester Trades Assembly and the Building Trades
Council, Rochester, N. Y commercial history of the city of Rochester,
photographs and biographies of officers, state, city and miscellaneous
labor laws, etc. | also here
|
1912 "My Work in Rochester, by a Factory Girl," The Common-good of Civic and Social Rochester 6(3):70-74 (December, 1912) | Volume 7 (1914) | This magazine has a lot about social and economic conditions in Rochester in the early 20th Century. The complete run of the journal is on line here.
1912 Representative industry and trade unionism of an American city, by Boutelle Ellsworth Lowe
1913 "The Child in Industry: A Survey of the Employment of Five Thousand Children in Rochester," by Harry C. Taylor, School Census Bulletin, No. 3 (Oct. 1, 1913)
1923 "Development of Industrial Law in the Rochester Clothing Market," by E. W. Morehouse, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 37(2):257-290 (February, 1923)
1933 Employed boys and girls in Rochester and Utica, New York, by Alice Channing
1952 Company
exhibits. Rochester Transit Corporation.
New York (State) Board of Inquiry on Rochester Transit Work Stoppage.
1952 Union
exhibits. Division no.282, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America.
New York (State) Board of Inquiry on Rochester Transit Work Stoppage.
1953 "Making a Living in Rochester: the Diary of Henry D. Silver 1906-1914," ed. by James W. Silver, Rochester History 15(4):1-28 (October, 1953)
1956 "Furniture Makers of Rochester, New York," by Joan Lynn Schild, New York History 37(1):979-106 (January, 1956)
1963 "Organized Labor in Rochester Before 1914," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 25(1):1-24 (January 1963)
1963 "Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1828-1881," by Walter B. Smith, The Journal of Economic History 23(3):298-311 (September, 1963)
1984 "The Great Uprising in Rochester," Joan M. Jensen, from A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America, by Joan M. Jensen and Sue Davidson
1985 Hostages of Fortune: Child Labor Reform in New York State By Jeremy P. Felt | library copy |
1990 "The Limits of Reform: Labor and Discipline on the Erie Canal," by Roger E. Carp, Journal of the Early Republic 10(2):191-219 (Summer, 1990)
2002 Rochester labor and leisure, by Donovan A. Shilling.
Occupations Licensed or Certified by New York State
| Knights
of Labor |
Industrial
Workers of the World |
Labor
federation competition in the United States |
| Emma Goldman | National Labor Union | Occupational
Licensing |
Disease,
Medicine, and Public Health | Also see History
of University of Rochester Medical Center |
1823 Observations
on the lake fevers and other diseases of the Genesee country in the
State of New York, by Edward G. Ludlow.
1832 "Report on Cholera," by Lewis C. Beck, Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York 1:348-372 (August 1832)
1847 Rochester General Hospital opens
1852 Report of the Board of Health, on cholera, as it appeared in Rochester, New York, in 1852.
1857 St. Mary's Hospital opens. In 1997, St. Mary’s Hospital merged with Park Ridge Hospital (now Unity Hospital) to form Unity Health System.
1889 The Rochester Homeopathic Hospital opens, renamed Genesee Hospital in 1926. Closed in 2001.
1889 Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital opened, renamed Highland Hospital in 1921. Affiliated with Strong Health System in 1997.
1890 Annual
Report of the Executive Board, in charge of the Water Works, Fire and
Highway Departments, and of Street Improvements, for the year
ending April 7, 1890.
Pages
107-127: Report on an endemic of typhoid fever, at
Springwater, New York, in October and November, 1889, by Geo W Rafter; M L
Mallory
1890 "The Recent Endemic of Typhoid Fever at Springwater, N. Y., considered with special reference to its cause, and the contamination of the Rochester water supply which might result therefrom," by George W. Rafter and M. L. Mallory, Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Sciences, 1:65-86 (June 23, 1890)
1894 Park Ridge Hospital opens. In 1997, St. Mary’s Hospital merged with Park Ridge Hospital (now Unity Hospital) to form Unity Health System.
1896 The Sanitation of Rochester, by George Washington Goler
1900 How
to Take Care of Babies During Hot Weather, by Rochester Health
Bureau.
Published in English, German, italian, and Yiddish
1905 Annual Report of the Health Bureau of the City of Rochester, N.Y.
1906 "The Origin, Development and Results of Municipal Milk Work in Rochester, N.Y.," by George W. Goler, Maryland Medical Journal 49(6):201-208 (June 1906)
1906 "How
One Man Saved Thousands of Babies," The Mitchell Capital
(Mitchell, South Dakota), July 27, 1906, Page 11.
Goerge W. Goler
1907 "But a thousand a year" the cost and the results in Rochester of feeding clean milk as food for the hand-fed baby, by George Washington Goler
1910 "Rochester: The Flower City. A City, Likewise, of Clean Milk, Social Centers and Progress in Many Directions," by Grace Sartwell Mason, Good Housekeeping 51:272-82 (September, 1910)
1910 Results obtained by tuberculin testing a city's retail milk supply, by George W. Goler and F.R. Eilinger.
1910 Medical education in the United States and Canada; a report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by Abraham Flexner
1911 Health in Rochester 1834-1911, by George Washington Goler
1913 Annual Report of the Health Bureau of the City of Rochester, N.Y.
1916 "Community Sickness Survey: Rochester, N. Y., September, 1915," by Lee K. Frankel and Louis I. Dublin, Public Health Reports 31(8) 423-438 (February 25, 1916)
1916 Annual Report of the Health Bureau of the City of Rochester, N.Y.
1918 "May Lift Ban From Churches By End Of The Coming Week," Rochester Times-Union, October 18, 1918, p. 8
1918 "Influenza Not Influenza, Medical Infection" — Goler, Rochester Times-Union, December 14, 1918, Page 9.
1918 "New Cases Jump to 279; Day's Deaths Number Six," Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, December 15, 1918, p. 8.
1918 "Eighteen Deaths From Epidemic Total For Day," Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, December 17, 1918, p. 19
1919 Report of Rochester milk survey by the Committee on Public Safety of the Common Council, December, 1919
1922 On Monday, 22 May 1922, James Dexter Havens became the first patient with diabetes in the United States to receive the newly purified insulin. | see this 2005 article |
1922 When
Rochester was a city of horse cars.
Joint Hospital Committee (Rochester, N.Y.); Goldwater, S. S. (Sigismund
Schulz), 1873-1942.; Goler, George Washington, 1864-1910.; Whipple, George
Hoyt, 1878-1976.
1922 Eugenical Sterilization in the United States, by Harry Hamilton Laughlin
1924 "Sodium Iodide Treatment of Rochester's Water Supply (with discussion)," by Beekman C. Little, Journal of the American Water Works Association 12(1):68-86 (September, 1924)
1926 Strong Memorial Hospital opens.
1933 Monroe County Home and Infirmary founded from the Monroe County Almshouse, renamed Monroe Community Hospital in 1967
1940 "Rochester Guards Against Typhoid," The Cornell Daily Sun, December 13, 1940, Page 8.
1940 "Rochester Fears Typhoid Outbreak," St. Petersburg Times, December 14, 1940, Page 9.
1941 "The Pollution and Emergency Disinfection of Rochester's Water Supply," by Earl Devendorf, Journal of the American Water Works Association, 33(8):1334-1356 (August, 1941)
1947 "Our Forefathers Tackle an Epidemy--The Cholera of 1832," By Samuel Adams Hopkins, New York Folklore Quarterly, 3:93-101 (1947).
1947 A Century of Service: Rochester General Hospital, 1847 - 1947, by Virginia Jeffrey Smith
1950 Epidemic cholera, Rochester, 1833, by Donald Ainslie Henderson, submitted for the Corner Prize in the History of Medicine
1950 Fifty Years of Health in Rochester, New York, 1900-1950, by David B. Brady and Albert D. Kaiser, M.D., Health Officer, July 1950
1952 "Making Diphtheria Antitoxin Serum: An Episode in the Medical History of Rochester," by Charles Wright Dodge, University of Rochester Library Bulletin 7(2) (Winter 1952)
1955 "Clinton
Property Sold to UR for Use in Parking," Democrat and Chronicle,
January 25, 1955, Page 10.
Former Wegman's Food Market at 86-90 Clinton Ave S.
1956 "The History of Public Health in Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 18(3):1-28 (July, 1956)
1958 "The Western Barge," by Gladys Reid Holton, Museum service, bulletin of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences 31:15 (1958) Bringer of cholera in 1832.
1960 "Hope Hospital, the 'Rochester Municipal Hospital,' 1869-1903; Rochester - the emergence of its great health officer, Dr. Goler; Rochester smallpox, 1902-03 - the end of it," by Howard B. Slavin.
1961 "Asiatic Cholera in Rochester," by Phillis A. Richmond, University of Rochester Library Bulletin 16(3):44-52 (Spring, 1961) (Local reactions to the outbreaks of 1832, 1849, 1852.)
1969 "The Diffusion of Cholera in the United States in the Nineteenth Century," by G. F. Pyle, Geographical Analysis 1:59-75
1973 "The Medical Profession in a New Society, Rochester, New York (1811-1860)," by Edward C. Atwater, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 47(3):221-235 (May-June, 1973)
1975 "Goiter, Iodine and George W. Goler: The Rochester Experiment,” by Lawrence A. Kohn, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49:389-399 (Fall, 1975)
1975 "The Hospital and Society: The Growth of Hospitals in Rochester, New York, in the Nineteenth Century," by David B. Lovejoy, Jr., Bulletin of the History of Medicine 48(4):536-555 (Winter, 1975)
1977 "The Physicians of Rochester, N.Y., 1860-1910: A Study in Professional History, II," by Edward C. Atwater, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 51(1):93-104 (Spring 1977)
1978 "An Alternate Approach to Hospital Cost Control: The Rochester Project," by Andrew A. Sorensen and Ernest W. Saward, Public Health Reports 93(4):311-317 (July-August, 1978)
1982 "Hospital Cost Containment in Rochester: From Maxicap to the Hospital Experimental Payments Program," by Andrew A. Sorensen, Ernest W. Saward and David W. Stewart, Inquiry 19(4):327-335 (Winter, 1982)
1986 The therapeutic perspective: medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885, by John Harley Warner
1986 Medicine and American growth, 1800-1860, by James H. Cassedy
1987 The cholera years: the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866, by Charles E. Rosenberg
1989 "'How Might A Low-Cost Hospital System Look?': Lessons from the Rochester Experience," by Sara E. Hartman and Dana B. Mukamel, Medical Care 27(3):234-243 (March, 1989)
1989 In sickness and in wealth: American hospitals in the twentieth century, by Rosemary Stevens
1991 The Health Care System of Rochester, New York: Its History and Achievements, by Patricia Taylor
1993 Health care : Rochester's community approach yields better access, lower costs : report to the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives United States General Accounting Office
1995 "Venereal disease control in early twentieth century Rochester," by J.W. Hawkins,Thesis for Master of Public Health Degree Program, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
1996 "Origins of a Local Hospital: The Real Story," by Teresa K. Lehr, Journal of Public Health Policy 17(1):71-79 (1996) Rochester General Hospital
1998 "The Kimball Tobacco Company and the Anti-Tobacco Movement," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 60(1): (Winter 1998)
1999 Time to heal: American medical education from the turn of the century to the era of managed care, by Kenneth M. Ludmerer
1999 Restoring the balance: women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995, by Ellen Singer More
2001 An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of American popular medicine and health reform, by Christopehr Hoolihan
2008 Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology, by Monica Helen Green
2010 "George Washington Goler: The Biggest Crank and the Best Health Officer in the United States," by Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee, American Journal of Public Health 100(2):237 (February 2010)
2010 "The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919," Carol R. Byerly, Public Health Report 125(Suppl3):82-91 (2010) | also see other articles in this issue |
2010 "Commentary: Understanding the Flexner Report," by Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, Academic Medicine 85(2) 193-196 (February 2010)
2011 "Cholera, canals, and contagion: Rediscovering Dr Beck's report," by Ashleigh R Tuite, Christina H Chan & David N Fisman, Journal of Public Health Policy 32:320–333 (2011)
2011 Communities and Health Care: The Rochester, New York, Experiment, by Sarah F. Liebschutz
2012 "The Flexner Report of 1910 and Its Impact on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Psychiatry in North America in the 20th Century," Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2016 Women medical doctors in the United States before the Civil War: a biographical dictionary, by Edward C. Atwater
2017 "How
the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America," by John M. Barry, Smithsonian
Magazine (November 2017)
Rochester Academy of Medicine | History and Archives |
History of Rochester Area Hospitals
Deadliest American Disasters and Large Loss-Of-Life Events
Mental
Health
1855 Two
Years and Three Months in the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica:
Together with the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse,
by Phebe B. Davis
1859 Monroe County Insane Asylum opens, taken over by New York State in 1891 and renamed Rochester State Hospital. Now the Rochester Psychiatric Center.
1875 Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y.
1983 Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940, by Gerald N. Grob
2003 The invisible plague: the rise of mental illness from 1750 to the present, by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. and Judy Miller
Records of the Monroe County Insane Asylum (1857-1891)
Records of the Rochester State Hospital
| Lunatic Asylum | Psychiatric Hospitals | Mental
Health |
Poverty,
Debt, and Social Services
1818 A
Disquisition on Imprisonment for Debt, as the Practice Exists in the
State of New York, by Joseph D. Fay
1823 Remarks on the Law of Imprisonment for Debt; Showing its Unconstitutionality, and Its Demoralizing Influence on the Community, by Thomas Herttell
1826 Monroe County Almshouse Founded
1828 "Of
the Imprisonment of Persons Arrested in Civil Process," The
Revised Statutes of the State of New York. December 10, 1828
§9. No female shall be imprisoned on any process in any civil
action, founded upon contract.
1830 An act to exempt certain Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army from Imprisonment for Debt. April 27, 1830. (New York State)
1831 "Imprisonment for Debt," The North American Review 32(71):490-508 (April, 1831) | also here |
1831 An act to abolish Imprisonment for Debt, and to punish Fraudulent Debtors. April 26, 1831. (New York State)
1831 "New York. Imprisonment for Debt," Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, May 24, 1831. Includes debtors in Rochester and Monroe County.
1839 "Imprisonment for Debt in New York," Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society
1856 A Report to the Managers of the House for Idle and Truant Children, with Facts and Anecdotes Showing the Intellectual and Moral Improvement of the Children, by Samuel Chapman
1873 "Imprisonment for Debt," The New York Times, March 20, 1873, Page 4. | part 2 |
1880 The act to abolish imprisonment for debt : and to punish fraudulent debtors, commonly called "the Stilwell act," with forms and references to the judicial decisions thereunder, by Hon. David McAdam.
1886 Imprisonment for debt abolished, June 17, 1886
1895 Poor-laws of Massachusetts and New York: With Appendices Containing the United States Immigration and Contract-labor Laws, by John Cummings
1903 The Children's Playground League.
1907 The Playground, The Playground Association of America
1911 The Fourth Ward Survey, Rochester, New York, by Edwin Alfred Rumball
1911 A Sanitary Survey of Rochester, N. Y., by Caroline Bartlett Crane
1916 The Social Survey, by Carol Aronovici
1917 Participating Americans: The Story of One Year's Work for the Americanization of Buffalo, by Edwin A. Rumball | also here |
1923 A report of a survey of the juvenile delinquency in Rochester, New York, by Henry W. Thurston for the Child Welfare League of America.
1926 "Imprisonment for Debt" by Richard Ford, Michigan Law Review 25(1):24-49 (November 1926)
1933 "Unemployed Boys and Girls in Rochester and Utica, New York," by Alice Channing, U.S. Children's Bureau Publication no. 218 (1933)
1937 A bibliography of published and unpublished social studies on Rochester, New York, 1917-1937, by Samuel C. Steele ; prepared by the Department of Sociology, University of Rochester
1937 Hillside Centennial, 1837-1937, by Hillside Home for Children
1938 Ecological
Studies of Rochester, New York, done under the research
directorship of C. Luther Fry, prepared for publication by Raymond V.
Bowers, Department of Sociology, University of Rochester (September 1938)
Chapter 4 - Ecological Maps
Map I — Composite of Ten Social Indices,
Rochester, New York 1928-1938
Map II — Families on Public Belief, November
1-15, 1936
Map III — Juvenile Delinquency - Adjudicated
Cases - Boys, 1928-1937.
Map IV — Families under Care of Protective
Department, S.P.C.C., 1931-1936.
Map V — Boy Scouts - Including Cubs, January 1,
1938
Map VI — Foreign Born, 1930.
Map VII — Density of Population, 1930
Map VIII — Size of Families, 1930
Map IX — Average Birth Rate, 1933-1935.
Map X — Average Crude Death Rate, 1933-1935.
Map XI — New Tuberculosis Cases, 1934-1937.
1939 "Ecological Patterning of Rochester, New York," by Raymond V. Bowers, American Sociological Review 4(2):180-189 (April, 1939)
1952 "Imprisonment for Debt in America: Fact and Fiction," by Edwin T. Randall, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 39(1):89-102 (June, 1952)
1958 "A History of Social Welfare in Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 20(4):1-28 (October 1958)
1961 "A Semi-Centennial Review of Family Service of Rochester, Inc.," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 23(2):1-20 (April 1961)
1974 The urban elderly poor: racial and bureaucratic conflict, by Richard S. Sterne, James E. Phillips, and Alvin Rabushka | also here | Mainly about Rochester.
1974 Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900, by Peter J. Coleman
1983 "The History of Imprisonment for Debt and its Relation to the Development of Discharge in Bankruptcy," Jay Cohen, The Law School Record 29:5-12 (Fall 1983)
1986 President Johnson's war on poverty: rhetoric and history, by David Zarefsky
1999 Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900, by Peter J. Coleman
2009 "I.O.U. How we used to treat debtors," by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker (April 13, 2009)
2010 "The Last Bankrupt Hanged: Balancing Incentives in the Development of Bankruptcy Law," by Emily Kadens, Duke Law Journal 59(7):1231-1319 (April 2010)
2013 Abolition Is Not Just for Slavery: Abolishing Debtors’ Prison in America by Changing Debt from Criminal to Circumstantial, 1830-1831, by Misty Hope | pdf |
2013 American Debtors' Prison: The Rise of the New York Citizen as a Commercial Participant during the Early American Republic, 1800-1836, by Ryan M. Braeger
2016 "State Bans on Debtors’ Prisons and Criminal Justice Debt," Harvard Law Review 129:1024 (February 10, 2016)
2018 A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt
2021 No Time for Excuses: It's Time for Action | Report of the Commission on Racial and Structural Equity. March 12, 2021
Hillside Family of Agencies | Archives |
Rochester Female Charitable Society papers
| Debtor's Prisons | Poor House | Bankruptcy
in the United States |
Social Security |
| Hillside Family of Agencies |
LGBTQ
Life and Culture
1985 "Mains Narrowly
Defeats Jackson," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, November
6, 1985, Page 1.
Tim O. Mains narrow victory meant he will be the first openly homosexual
person to hold elective office in Monroe County.
1987 The rise of a gay and lesbian movement, by Barry D. Adam
1992 The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement, by Margaret Cruikshank
2022 "Where have all the gay bars gone?," by Rebecca Rafferty, Rochester City Newspaper, June 2022
The Empty Closet | past issues | One of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States. 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)
Shoulders to Stand On: Document the History of the LGBT Community in Rochester, NY
| Stonewall Riots | The
Empty Closet |
Gay
Liberation Front |
Sodomy Laws |
Census
(Federal and New York) New York State conducted a census
every ten years from 1825 to 1875, in 1892, and then again from 1905-1925,
but the information is not readily available.
1865 Census
of the State of New York, for 1865.
1923 The woman home-maker in the city: a study of statistics relating to married women in the city of Rochester, N.Y., at the census of 1920, by Bertha M. Nienburg.
1950 "Population of Rochester,"by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 12(4):1-24 (October, 1950)
1993 "Peopling the Post-Revolutionary New York Frontier," by James W. Darlington, New York History 74(4):341-381 (October, 1993)
2019 Rochester Population Data
2020 Rochester Census Data 1820-2020
Quick Facts, Rochester New York (U.S. Census)
ACT Rochester includes many community indicators
U.S. Census Bureau, includes a vast amount of information
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Decennial Census of Population and Housing
Data and statistics: U.S. Census Data (River Campus Libraries)
| United
States Census Bureau |
New
York State Censuses |
Immigration
and Naturalization
1884 Das
Deutschthum Rochester's: Historische Skizze, Seinen Deutschen
Mitbürgern zum 50-Jährigen Jubiläum der Stadt Rochester, by
Hermann Pfafflin
1907 Immigration,
the Cause of Hard Times in America: Read, Reflect, Act, by
America's Improvement Society
1911? Populus rocestriensis: an introduction to the demography of Rochester, N.Y., by Edwin Alfred Rumball.
1914 "Populus Rocestriensis: An Introduction to the Demography of Rochester," by Edwin Rumball, The Common-Good of Civil and Social Rochester 7(11):163-180 (August, 1914)
1915 Hundertjahrige Gesehichte des Deutschtums von Rochester, by Hermann Pfafflin | also here |
1916 Four-score years : a contribution to the history of the Catholic Germans in Rochester, by Thomas W. Mullaney.
1916 The Rochester plan of immigrant education, prepared by Charles E. Finch.
1938 Ecological studies of Rochester, New York, by Charles Luther Fry, Department of Sociology, University of Rochester
1954 The Jewish Community in Rochester, 1843-1925, by Stuart E. Rosenberg
1958 "The Germans in Rochester: Their Traditions and Contributions," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 20(1):1-28 (January, 1958)
1963 "Rochester’s Ethnic Transformations," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 25(3):1-24 (July 1963)
1971 "Ethnic Groups in America: The Italians of Rochester," by Boris H. Mikolji, Il Politico 36(4):660-682 (Dicembre, 1971)
1977 Family and community: Italian immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930, by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
1985 Ethnic Rochester, edited by James S. Pula. The ethnic groups covered, each with a chapter by a different author, are the Poles, the Italians, the Germans, the Irish, and the Ukrainians.
1993 "Pakistanis in Rochester, New York: Establishing Islamic identity in the American Melting Pot," by Salahuddin Malik, Islamic Studies 32(4):461-475 (Winter, 1993)
1995 How the Irish Became White, by Noel Ignatiev | pdf of book |
2001 A review of the restrictions on persons of Italian ancestry during World War II.
2006 "To Feed the Hungry: Rochester and Irish Famine Relief," by Harvey Strum, Rochester History 68(3):1-23 (Summer, 2006)
2007 "Building the Barrio: A Story of Rochester’s Puerto Rican Pioneers," by Karen McCally, Rochester History 70(1):1-28 (Summer, 2007)
2007 A 100-year history of the German community in Rochester, New York (1815-1915), by Herman Friedrich Wilhelm Pfa?fflin; Rudolf Wallenberg; Holman J Swinney; Hugo Huedepohl; Max Schaible
2008 Ireland's New Worlds: immigrants, politics, and society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922, by Malcolm Campbell
2010 Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America, by Peter Schrag | also here |
2012 "Rochester, Refugees, and the Jewish Community, 1930 to 1950," by Mary Posman, Rochester History 74(2):1-28 (Fall 2012)
Lakes
and Rivers
1809 An
act to raise Money to build a Bridge across the Genesee-River.
March 30, 1809.
1847 Report on the Diversion of Water of the Genesee River for the Supply of the Erie and Genesee Valley Canals, by Daniel Marsh, Civil Engineer
1877 "Protection
against Floods," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 9, 1877,
Page 4. | part 2
|
Interesting and Valuable Report of Engineer Tubbs to his Honor, Mayor
Parsons.
1893 "The Finger Lakes of New York," by Albert P. Brigham, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York 25(1):203-223 (1893)
1898 "Portage
Storage Dam Project," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
March 7, 1898, Page 8.
In this city, the elevation of the surface of the feeder dam is 510 feet,
and the surface of Lake Ontario is 247 feet above the sea level, leaving a
fall of 263 feet, nearly all available for water power.
1905 Report of the Committee on Investigation of Flood Conditions Affecting the City of Rochester, N.Y.
1906 A Tour of Four Great Rivers: The Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769, being the Journal of Richard Smith, edited by Francis W. Halsey
1908 The Proposed Dam and Storage Reservoir at Portage, N.Y., by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
1937 Report
to Hon. Harold W. Baker, city manager, of a study of flood conditions
in the Genesee river, having specific relation to a civic center, also
to the general subject of flood protection for the city of Rochester,
together with a digest of former reports - also a reference to the
large floods of 1935, 1936 and 1937 in the eastern part of the United
States, 1925-1937, by Edwin A. Fisher
Pages 81-85: Chapter IV. Data on Previous
Floods.
1941 "Historic Main Street Bridge," by Dorothy S. Truesdale, Rochester History 3(2):1-24 (April, 1941)
1963 The Genesee, by Henry W. Clune (preview)
1971 Hydrology of the Genesee River basin, New York and Pennsylvania
1986 Genesee River Basin Study; Reconnaissance Report. Volume 1. Main Report.
1991 Genesee River Watershed Study Volume 2 Special Studies New York State | volume 1 |
1996 "The Sleeping Giant – The Story of the Mt. Morris Dam," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 58(3) (Summer, 1996)
History of the Mount Morris Dam
| Genesee River | Mount
Morris Dam |
Letchworth
State Park |
Lake
Ontario |
| Irondequoit
Bay |
Finger
Lakes |
Hemlock
Lake |
Pont
du Rennes Bridge |
Parks,
Geology and Nature
1843 Palaeontology
of New York: I. Organic remains of the lower division of the
New York System, by James Hall
1896 Plants of Monroe County, New York, and adjacent territory, by Florence Beckwith and Mary E. Macauley | Second Supplementary List (1917) |
1898 Report of the Board of Park Commissioners of the city of Rochester, N.Y. 1888 to 1898
1908 The origin & development of Rochester's park system
1911 A city plan for Rochester; a report prepared for the Rochester Civic Improvement Committee, Rochester, N. Y., by Arnold W. Brunner, Frederick Law Olmsted, Bion J. Arnold.
1912 Early botanists of Rochester and vicinity and the botanical section, by Florence Beckwith.
1923 "The Pinnacle Hills or The Rochester Kame-Moraine," by Herman L. Fairchild, Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Sciences 6(5):141-194 (November 1923) | also here |
1938 Lilacs in the Rochester parks, by R.E. Horsey
1938 The Genesee country; a field guide to various natural features which reveal the geologic past, by Thomas G. Payne.
1940 "The Flower City: Center of Nurseries and Fruit Orchards," by Blake McKelvey | also here |
1964 A checklist of the cultivated woody plants of the Rochester parks, Part 1, by Bernard Harkness | Part 2 |
1994 Geology of the Erie Canal, Rochester Gorge, and Eastern Monroe County, New York State: In the footsteps of Amos Eaton and James Hall, by Thomas X. Grasso and Richard M. Liebe
2004 "Everything you wanted to know about the geology of Mount Hope Cemetery," by William Chaisson, Epitaph 23(1):1-8 (Winter 2004)
Rochester Climate, average and extreme daily temperatures
| Frederick Law Olmstead | Highland Park | Genesee Valley Park | Maplewood Park |
Agriculture
and Mining
1833 Report
of the Canal Board, on three petitions from "farmers and other citizens
residing in western New-York," April 18, 1833. Wheat and
flour combinations
1893 "Salt and Gypsum Industries of New York," Bulletin of the New York State Museum 3(11) (April, 1893)
1926 "Waterways in Livestock and Meat Trade," by Rudolf A. Clemen, The American Economic Review 16(4):640-652 (December, 1926)
1932 "New York Agriculture Meets the West 1830-1850 (Part 1)," by Russell H. Anderson, The Wisconsin Magazine of History 16(2):163-198 (December, 1932)
1933 "New York Agriculture Meets the West 1830-1850 (Part 2)," by Russell H. Anderson, The Wisconsin Magazine of History 16(3):285-296 (March, 1933)
1936 "What Farmers Read in Western New York, 1800-1850," by Ulysses P. Hedrick, New York History 17(3):281-289 (July, 1936)
1945 "The Landed Gentry of the Genesee," by Neil Adams McNall, New York History 26(2):162-176 (April, 1945)
1945 The first half-century of Wadsworth tenancy, by Neil Adams McNall.
1946 "King Wheat in the Genesee Valley," by Neil Adams McNall, New York History 27(4):426-443 (October, 1946)
1947 "The Spread of Improved Cattle through the Eastern United States to 1850," by George F. Lemmer, Agricultural History 21(2):79-93 (April, 1947)
1949 "The Salt Industry of Syracuse - a brief review," by Joseph Hawley Murphy, New York History 30(3):304-315 (July, 1949)
1952 An agricultural history of the Genesee Valley, 1790-1860, by Neil Adams McHall
1962 "The Impact of Technological Change on American Agriculture, 1862-1962," Wayne D. Rasmussen, The Journal of Economic History 22(4):578-591 (December, 1962)
1968 "Innovation and Diffusion in Agriculture," by Gould P. Colman, Agricultural History 42(3):173-188 (July, 1968)
1969 "Agricultural Change in New York State, 1850-1890," by Paul W. Gates, New York History 50(2):115-141 (April, 1969)
1970 "In Praise of Farming: An Aspect of The Movement for Agricultural Improvement in the Northeast, 1815-1840," by Donald B. Marti, New York History 51(4):351-375 (July, 1970)
1975 "Transport Change and Agricultural Specialization," by J. Harold Leaman and E. C. Conkling, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 65(3):425-432 (September, 1975)
1980 "Agricultural Journalism and the Diffusion of Knowledge: The First Half-Century in America," by Donald B. Marti, Agricultural History 54(1):28-37 (January, 1980) Agricultural History Symposium: Science and Technology in Agriculture
1986 "Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America," by Nancy A. Hewitt, Feminist Studies 22(1):27-49 (Spring, 1986)
1996 Salt Mining in New York: The Ins and Outs of the Solution Mining Industry and Its Significance, by Peter S. Briggs
1998 The Onondaga New York Salt Works (1654 - 1926), by Valerie Jackson Bell
1999 "The Retsof Salt Mine Collapse," U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182
2001 "The Salt of the Earth: Warsaw, New York and its Nineteenth Century Salt Industry," by Gabriel LeMar Judkins, Middle States Geographer 34:19-25 (2001)
2006 "Restructuring America's Dairy Farms," by John A. Cross, Geographical Review 96(1):1-23 (January, 2006)
| The Genesee Farmer | Salt
Mining |
Dairy |
Quarry |
| History
of Salt |
Retsof
Salt Mine |
Salt
Industry in Syracuse |
Wheat |
| Reaper |
Business
and Industry
1831 "Our Public Houses," Rochester Gem,
July 2, 1831, Page 39-2
List of Hotels existing in 1831
1847 "Rochester Flour Manufacture and Trade," The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review 16(1):96 (January, 1847)
1847 "Wool Trade of Rochester," The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review 16(1):106 (January, 1847)
1849 "Rochester Flour Trade," The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review 20:100 (January, 1849)
1860 A description of the steam engines manufactured by D.A. Woodbury & Co. | another copy |
1879 The telegraph in America Its founders, promoters, and noted men, by James D. Reed
1881 Commerce, manufactures & resources of Rochester, N.Y A descriptive review.
1888 "The
Old Flour City," by E. D. Deming, Northwestern Miller
26:28-30 (Christmas 1888)
The Past and Present of Rochester N.Y. as a Milling Center
1892 American millionaires : the Tribune's list of persons reputed to worth a million or more. Lines of business in which the fortunes were made. List of 23 millionaires in Rochester
1894 History and Commerce of Rochester | also here |
1895 1795-1895.
One Hundred Years of American Commerce, Volume I | Volume
II |
Volume 1 - Chapter 24: American Flour
Page 267: It is something over three quarters of a century since Rochester
and the Genesee Valley sprang into fame as a region of wheat and flour
production, and obtained a name which was celebrated on two continents for
half a century. The 2300 square miles of the Genesee Valley were
unsurpassed in alluvial fertility, and its wheat took prize medals at
European exhibitions. Within the city limits of Rochester the Genesee
River had successive falls aggregating 268 feet. The Erie Canal, Genesee
River, and Tonawanda Railroad brought to the Rochester mills not only the
famous wheat of the Genesee Valley, but also that of Ohio and Canada.
Rochester was not platted until 1812, but in 1835 there were twenty-one
Rochester flour-mills, with ninety-five runs of stone and 5000 barrels'
daily capacity. The Rochester brands were on sale in all Atlantic markets.
In 1860 there were nineteen flouring-mills, with a yearly product valued
at $2,500,000. In 1865 the flour output was 800,000 barrels. In 1870
Monroe County had thirty mills and a product worth $4,600,000 a year.
Rochester continued to be the " Flour City " of the continent until, in
recent years, the growth of the nursery business caused the spelling of
the name to be changed to "Flower City."
1904 Rochester in 1904, by Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce
1906 Rochester 1906, by Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce, compiled by John M.Ives, Secretary
1907 A history of the brewery and liquor industry of Rochester, N.Y
1910 "What a Rochester Newspaper Says About the Coopers of that City," The Barrel and Box 14(11):30 (January, 1910)
1912 An Investigation of the Conditions Existing in the Clothing Factories of Rochester, N.Y. | also here | and here |
1917 Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860, by Rolla Milton Tryon. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
1918 Kodak Park in War Time, by Eastman Kodak Company
1919 One hundred years in the paper business, 1819-1919: being a brief history of the founding of the paper business of the Alling & Cory Company, together with an account of its growth during the centenary period of its existence, by Joseph T. Alling | also here |
1919 Review
of the accomplishments of the Rochester clothing industry for the year
1919.
A report presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Clothiers' Exchange,
December 20th, 1919, at Hotel Seneca by Max L. Holtz, president.
1919 The Book of Industrial Rochester | also here |
1920 "Rochester and the Shoe Industry," by Edgar P. Reed, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 1(5):241-243 (October, 1920)
1927 Report on a survey of the Rochester Public Market and marketing problem in the city of Rochester, N.Y., by George Addison West
1929 The Home of Kodak by Eastman Kodak Company
1931 In Rochester 100 years ago and now. Centennial year of the Rochester savings bank, 1831-1931, by Jack W. Speare | Also here |
1931 Living
My Life, by Emma Goldman
Autobiography of a Lithuanian-born anarchist who worked in a clothing
factory in Rochester for a short time.
1937 "The Records of a Flour Milling Firm of Rochester, New York," by Henrietta M. Larson, Bulletin of the Business Historical Society 11(6):108-110 (December, 1937)
1939 The Rochester market; a report on the present situation with suggestions for improvement.
1945? The Story of Bausch & Lomb; a short history of Bausch & Lomb and a description of how optical glass is made
1950 Our first century of service, 1850-1950, Monroe County Savings Bank
1951 Telegram for America, Western Union video
1952 "Diary of a One-Horse Enterpriser: Fifty Years Ago in Upstate New York," ed. James W. Silver, New York History 33(2):264-191 (April, 1952)
1953 "A History of Rochester Shoe Industry," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 15(2):1-28 (April, 1953)
1953 A history of telephony in Rochester, N.Y., by John P. Boylan
1956 "Furniture Makers of Rochester, New York," by Joan Lynn Schild, New York History 37(1):97-106 (January, 1956)
1957 "Rochester's Flour-Milling Industry in Pre-Canal Days," by Edmond M. Beame, The Business History Review 31(2):209-225 (Summer, 1957)
1960 "The Men’s Clothing Industry in Rochester’s History," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 22(3): (April, 1960)
1961 Monopoly on wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden automobile patent, by William Greenleaf
1963 "Chester F. Carlson, Inventor of Xerography - A biography," by Alfred Dinsdale, Xerox Corporation, Photographic Science and Engineering, 7(1):1-4 (January - February, 1963)
1968 Sibley's; Bold Century, 1868 - 1968. A history of the Sibley, Lindsay and Curr department store of Rochester, NY
1971 "Flour Milling in Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 33(3):1-24 (July, 1971)
1973 George Eastman and the early photographers, by Brian Coe
1978 "Lumber and Wood Processing in Rochester’s History," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 40(1):1-24 (January 1878)
1979 This great contrivance: the first hundred years of the telephone in Rochester, by F. L. Howe
1981 "Rochester and the Automobile Industry," by Joseph Barnes, Rochester History 43(2&3):1-39 (April & July, 1981)
1982 The Rochester Savings Bank, 1831-1981: In Commemoration of Its 150 Years of Service compiled and edited by Susan T. Turri. A history of the bank and how it relates to the history of Rochester.
1987 "Paying for the Dreams: A Short History of Banking in Rochester," by Gerard Muhl, Rochester History 49(2):1-24 (April 1987)
1988 "Frankfort: Birthplace of Rochester’s Industry," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 50(3):1-24 (July, 1988)
1990 "George Eastman," by Elizabeth Brayer, Rochester History 52(1):1-24 (Winter 1990)
1992 "Geology and Industrial History of the Rochester Gorge: Part One," by Thomas X. Grasso, Rochester History 54(4):1-44 (Fall 1992) | Part Two 55(1):1-36 (Winter, 1993) |
1992 Endless Voices: The Story of Rochester Tel, Rochester Telephone Corporation, Rochester, New York, by F. L. Howe
1995 Managers and workers: origins of the twentieth-century factory system in the United States, 1880-1920, by Daniel Nelson
1996 George Eastman: A Biography, by Elizabeth Brayer | another copy |
1997 History
of Frontier Corporation, International Directory of Company
Histories 16:221-223
Successor to Rochester Telephone Corporation
1997 "The Triphammer Forge," by Spurgeon King, Rochester History 59(2):1-13 (Spring, 1997)
1997 "Robert Dalzell, Master Millwright of the Genesee," by Spurgeon King, Rochester History 59(2):14-24 (Spring, 1997)
2002 Salt : a world history, by Mark Kurlansky | another copy | and another |
2003 "Inventing Amateur Film: Marion Norris Gleason, Eastman Kodak and the Rochester Scene, 1921-1932," by Dwight Swanson, Film History 15(2):126-136 (2003)
2003 Chester Carlson and the development of xerography, by Susan Zannos
2004 Copies in seconds : how a lone inventor and an unknown company created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg : Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox machine, by David Owen
2005 Inventing the cotton gin: machine and myth in antebellum America, by Angela Lakwete
2005 Rochester's leaders and their legacies by Donovan A. Shilling
2008 The Computers Nobody Wanted: My Years with Xerox, by Paul A. Strassmann
2009 George Eastman Tribute (video)
2013 Western Union and the creation of the American corporate order, 1845-1893, by Joshua D. Wolff
2015 Who Owns the "Flour City"? by Chris Clemens, October 4, 2015.
2017 The degradation of the food retail landscape, by Mitchell Gruber, PhD Dissertation in History, University of Rochester.
2018 "Supplying Rochester in the Age of the Erie Canal: An Examination of the Inventories of Ceramic and Glass Merchant Benjamin Seabury," Masters Thesis, University of Delaware
Mathias
Kondolf & Genesee Brewing Company
Food
and Hospitality
1965 Food
Consumption and Dietary Levels of Older Households in Rochester New
York, U.S. Department of Agriculture
1969 "From Stagecoach Taverns to Airline Motels," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 31(4):1-24 (October 1969)
2010 Fresh: a perishable history, by Susanne Freidberg
2011 Hotel dreams: luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929, by Molly W. Berger
2014 "'I Know I'm Home When I Have One:' The Cultural Significance of the Garbage Plate of Rochester, NY," by Emily Fekete, Material Culture 46(1):25-43 (Spring 2014) Special Issue: Food as Material Culture
2017 The degradation of the food retail landscape, by Mitchell Gruber, PhD Dissertation in History, University of Rochester.
| Wegmans Food Markets | Nick Tahou Hots | Zweigle's | Bill Gray's |
| Abbott's Frozen Custard | Tom Wahl's | Dinosaur Bar-B-Que | Rohrbach Brewing Company |
Government
and Public Services | also see Water Works |
1839 Act
to incorporate the city of Rochester: with subsequent amendments.
1848 Ordinances of the City of Rochester
1867 The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rochester (to October, 1867 inclusive.)
1882 Charter, by-laws and history of the Rochester Fire Department from 1817-1882 : together with the dedication of the Firemen's Monument, Thursday, September 9th, 1880, compiled by Henry W. Matthews, Lyman M. Newton and George B. Harris.
1888 Fire service of Rochester, N.Y : containing a sketch of the old volunteer department, also the present fire department, by Henry W. Matthews
1989 "The Ballot in New York," by Abram C. Bernheim, Political Science Quarterly 4(1):130-152 (March 1889) | also here |
1889 Report on the proposed trunk sewer for the east side of the City of Rochester, N.Y, by Emil Kuichling, April 29, 1889 | East Side Trunk Sewer Survey Map |
1903 History of the Police Department of Rochester, N.Y. : from the earliest times to May 1, 1903, by William F. Peck
1903 "Street Lighting in Rochester, N.Y.," by E. A. Fisher, Municipal Engineering 25(5):357-358 (November 1903)
1903 "Asphalt Pavements and their maintenance in Rochester, N.Y." by W. J. Stewart, Municipal Engineering 25(5):339-341 (November 1903)
1905 "A Summary of the Present Administration of Rochester, New York, with an Exhaustive Review of Every Department of its Municipal Government," Municipal News 8(1):1-31 (September 4, 1905)
1907 Report on the disposal of the sewage of the City of Rochester, N.Y., by Emil Kuichling
1908 The Origin & Development of Rochester's Park System
1911 A city plan for Rochester; a report prepared for the Rochester Civic Improvement Committee, Rochester, N. Y., by Arnold W. Brunner, Frederick Law Olmsted, Bion J. Arnold.
1913 Report on the Sewage Disposal System of Rochester, N.Y., by Edwin Augustus Fisher
1914 History of the Rochester flag, by Charles E. Ogden.
1915 The Purposes and Organization of the Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research, Inc | also here |
1917 Report on the Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y.: Submitted to the Mayor and to the Commissioner of Public Works
1918 Report on the Problem of Street Cleaning in the City of Rochester, N. Y., Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research
1918 A History of Suffrage in the United States, by Kirk Harold Porter
1919 Report on the Problem of Refuse Collection in the City of Rochester, N.Y.: Submitted to the Mayor and to the Commissioner of Public Works, by Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research
1923 The Rochester city plan : a report of the organization and operation of the City Planning Bureau of Rochester, N.Y. for 1918-1922, by Edwin A. Fisher
1929 A major street plan for Rochester, New York. Harland Bartholomew & Associates, city plan and landscape engineers, Saint Louis, Missouri.
1965 "Snowstorms and Snow Fighting–The Rochester Experience," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 27(1):1-24 (January 1965)
1974 Rochester's Era of Annexations 1901-1926, by Joseph W. Barnes. Includes several maps showing annexations.
1981 "Property Qualifications and Voting Behavior in New York, 1807-1816," Harvey Strum, Journal of the Early Republic 1(4):347-371 (Winter, 1981)
2000 The right to vote : the contested history of democracy in the United States, by Alexander Keyssar | also here |
2002 "Democracy and Its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York," by Sven Beckert, Past & Present 174:116-157 (February 2002)
2009 Historic Erie Canal Aqueduct & Broad Street Corridor Master Plan, May 2009
2017 The degradation of the food retail landscape, by Mitchell Gruber, PhD Dissertation in History, University of Rochester.
2019 Rochester 2034 A Comprehensive Plan for the City
2020 Voting rights in America: primary documents in context, by Bridgett A. King
2020 An American city’s struggle to police its police, Reuters, November 2020. About Rochester and its police force.
2021 No Time for Excuses: It's Time for Action | Report of the Commission on Racial and Structural Equity. March 12, 2021
2021 The Birth Certificate: An American History, by Susan J. Pearson
History of Rochester's Water Works.
| Rochester
Police Department |
Rochester
Fire Department Headquarters and Shop |
Fire
Engines |
Western House of Refuge |
| Sibley Fire (1904) | Eminent
Domain |
Taxation,
Finance, and Corporations
1890 "History of the New
York Property Tax," by John Christopher Schwab, Publications of
the American Economic Association 5(5):17-108 (September, 1890)
1901 Two Centuries' Growth of American Law, 1701-1901 (see chapters 9 and 10 for municipal and private corporations)
1906 A Manual of New York Corporation Law: Containing the Important Statutes, by Richard Compton Harrison
1908 A Treatise on the Incorporation and Organization of Corporations, by Thomas Gold Frost
1914 The Financial History of New York State from 1789 to 1912, by Don Conger Sowers
1916 The Purposes of the Indebtedness of American Cities 1880-1912, by Fred Emerson Clark
1923 Report of a study of the financial condition and practices of the city of Rochester, N.Y.
1924 Memorandum on the Automobile as a Source of Municipal Revenue. Rochester (proposes a gasoline tax)
1930 The government and finance of Rochester, New York, by Donald W. Gilbert. Covers period from 1817 to 1892.
1936 Municipal bonds; a century of experience, by A.M. Hillhouse .
1944 Rochester; A Study in Civic Values, by University of Rochester (Survey of money problems facing the city, with suggestions for broadening the tax base and easing tax burdens.)
1953 Railroads of New York: a study of government aid, 1826-1875, Harry Hubert Pierce | also here |
1969 “Frontier Attitudes and Debt Collection in Western New York,” by Robert W. Silsby, in The Frontier in American Development: Essays in Honor of Paul Wallace Gates, ed. David M. Ellis.
1980 "A New York City Creditor and His Upstate Debtors: Isaac Bronson's Moneylending, 1819–1836," by Grant Morrison, New York History 61(3):255-276 (July, 1980)
1984 Federal aid to Rochester, by Sarah F. Liebschutz
| Taxation | Finance | Corporations |
The
Great Depression and other Financial Recessions
1932 "The Rochester
Unemployment Benefit Plan," by Marion B. Folsom, Proceedings of
the Academy of Political Science 14(4):11-23 (January, 1932) Can
Prices, Production and Employment Be Effectively Regulated?
1952 "The Depression of 1893 in Rochester," by Patricia E. Fisler, Rochester History 14(3): (July, 1952)
| Great Depression | List
of recessions in the United States |
Unemployment
Benefits |
Civilian Conservation Corps |
Transportation
and Travel (General)
1784 Letter
from George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784.
Proposing a canal to the Ohio River
1799 "Joseph Avery's Journal, 1799," by S. D. Van Alstine, The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 2(4):251-166 (October, 1921) | also here |
1800 Observations on the proposed state road, from Hudson's River, near the city of Hudson, to Lake Erie, by the Oleout, Catharine's, Bath, and Gray's settlement, on the western bounds of Steuben County, by Charles Williamson and Peter Maverick
1805 Journal of a Tour to Niagara Falls in the year 1805, by Timothy Bigelow (1876)
1808 Report of the Secretary of the Treasury; on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals, by Albert Gallatin
1821 Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: To which are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class ; and Some Recollections of the United States of America, by John Howison. Includes his journey from Lewiston to Rochester and Utica.
1822 "Our travels, statistical, geographical, mineorological, geological, historical, political, and quizzical" : a Knickerbocker tour of New York State, 1822, written by myself XYZ etc ; edited with an introduction. and notes, by Louis Leonard Tucker. (1968) | also here | In late August 1822, at the height of a yellow fever epidemic in New York City, an alarmed resident of the lower city resettled his family in the Bedford section of Brooklyn Village. With two male companions, he then boarded the steamboat Chancellor Livingston on August 28 and sailed up the Hudson River to Newburgh. There they boarded a stage and travelled across New York State to Niagara Falls and the adjoining area. They returned along the "psychic highway" of western and central New York to Albany, thence down the Hudson to New York City by steamboat. In the course of the month-long trip, the gentleman who had fled the city maintained a journal.
1827 Travels in North America, Volume 1, by Captain Basil Hall. Visited Rochester in June, 1827.
1827 Prospective economy in the future public works of the State of New York, describing the savings and effects on the Otsego, Chenango, Cayuga, Chemung and Allegany routes, by the use of the durable wooden lock, and single elevated railway, by John Langdon Sullivan
1828 Three Years in North America, Volume 1, by James Stuart (1833) | Volume 2 |
1833 A Visit to the United States and Canada in 1833: With the View of Settling in America: Including a Voyage to and from New-York, by Richard Weston (1836)
1840 A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States, Comprehending Notices of All the Works of Internal Improvement Throughout the Several States, by Henry Schenck Tanner
1915 "The History of Transportation in the Mohawk Valley," by William G. Mayer, Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 14:214-230 (1915)
1917 History of transportation in the United States before 1860, by Balthasar Henry Meyer and Caroline Elizabeth McGill
1919 The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland, by Frederic James Wood
1932 A summary of the survey and plans for port development in Rochester and Monroe county
1951 The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860, by George Rogers Taylor | also here | another copy |
1957 Rochester-Monroe
County port survey, by Walter Page Heddon
Prepared for Monroe County and the City of Rochester.
1965 "English Travelers to Niagara, 1785-1830," by David D. Anderson, New York History 46(2):145-161 (April, 1965)
1982 Upstate travels : British views of nineteenth-century New York, edited, with an introduction, by Roger Haydon.
1992 "Private Toll Roads: Learning from the 19th Century," by Daniel B. Klein and Gordon J. Fielding, Transportation Quarterly 46(3):321-341 (July, 1992)
1992 "Economy, Community, and Law: The Turnpike Movement in New York, 1797-1845," by Daniel B. Klein and John Majewski, Law & Society Review 26(3):469-512 (1992)
2015 The Short History of the Rochester Fast Ferry by Dick Halsey.
New York State Museum of Transportation, Rush, New York
| New
York State Museum of Transportation |
Rochester
Fast Ferry |
Horses
1859 A
Practical Treatise on Street Or Horsepower Railways: Their Location,
Construction and Management: With General Plans and Rules for Their
Organization and Operation; together with examinations as to their
comparative advantages over the Omnibus System and Inquiries as to
Their Value for Investment; Including Copies of Municipal Ordinances
Relating Thereto, by Alexander Easton {Easton later built a
failed water works system in Rochester.}
1872 "The Position of the Horse in Modern Society," The Nation 383:277-278 (October 31, 1872)
1878 The World on Wheels; or Carriages, with Their Historical Associations from the Earliest Time to the Present Time, Including a Selection from the American Centennial Exhibition, by Ezra M. Stratton
1894 The Animal as a Machine and Prime Mover, by Robert Henry Thurston
1956 "By Horse and Waggon: The Diary of Alpheus Sherman," by Peter B. Schroeder, New York History 37(4):432-451 (October, 1956) Journey from New York City to Central New York and return in 1822.
1997 "The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City,” by Joel Tarr and Clay McShane, from The Making of Urban America, pp. 105-130 | excerpt here |
1999 “A Note on the Horse as an Urban Power Source,” by Joel Tarr, Journal of Urban History 25:434-448 (March, 1999)
2007 "From Horse Power to Horsepower," by Eric Morris, ACCESS Magazine, 1(30):2-10.
2007 The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by Clay McShane and Joel Tarr | also here |
2008 "The Horse as an Urban Technology," by Joel A. Tarr and Clay McShane, Journal of Urban Technology 15(1):5-17 (April, 2008)
2009 Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America, by Ann Norton Greene | also here |
2018 Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History, by Ulrich Raulff
| Horses |
Horse Bus | Horse Car |
Canals
(Also see Annual Reports of the Canal Commissioners)
1785 Proposals
for the Speedy Settlement of the Waste and Unappropriated Lands of the
Western Frontiers of the State of New-York, and for the Improvement of
the Inland Navigation Between Albany and Oswego, by
Christopher Colles
1792 An act for establishing and opening lock navigations within this State. March 30, 1792.
1796 A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation, by Robert Fulton
1797 Letter from Robert Fulton to President George Washington, February 5, 1797.
1809 Report of James Geddes of explorations for canal route under concurrent resolution of March 21, and April 6, 1808, January 20, 1809. | also here | Map showing Genesee River and proposed canal junction |
1811 Report of the commissioners appointed by joint resolutions of the honorable Senate and Assembly of the state of New-York, the 13th & 15th March, 1810, to explore the route of an inland navigation from Hudson's River to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. | also here |
1811 Map of the Western Part of the State of New York showing the route of a proposed canal
1816 Memorial of the Commissioners of the state of New-York, in behalf of said state; praying the aid of the general government in opening a communication between the navigable waters of the Hudson River and the Lakes. December 11, 1816. Referred to the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to roads and canals.
1817 Report
of the Commissioners of the State of New York on the Canals from Lake
Erie to the Hudson River and from Lake Champlain to the Same,
presented to the Legislature, 17th February, 1817
Page 22: It is proposed to pass the Genesee river, by a dam ten feet
high, with a bridge some distance above it, for a towing path. The
place of passing is a few chains south of the village of Rochester.
1817 Report of the Board of Commissioners on the Northern, Or Champlain Canal, March 18, 1817
1817 An act respecting navigable communications between the great western and northern lakes and the Atlantic ocean. April 15, 1817.
1818 Considerations on the great western canal, from the Hudson to Lake Erie: with a view of its expense, advantages, and progress, by Charles G. Haines. Re-published by order of the New-York Corresponding Association, for the Promotion of Internal Improvements.
1819 Considerations against continuing The Great Canal West of the Seneca, by Peter Ploughshare [William Williams]
1821 Public Documents, Relating to the New-York Canals: Which are to Connect the Western and Northern Lakes, with the Atlantic Ocean; with an Introduction, by New York Corresponding Association for the Promotion of Internal Improvements
1821 The Canal Policy of the State of New York: Delineated in a Letter to R. Troup, Etc. By Tacitus [DeWitt Clinton}
1821 A new map and profile of the proposed canal from Lake Erie to Hudson River in the State of New York
1822 Description of a Direct Route for the Erie Canal at its Eastern Termination, by John Randel, Jun.
1824 A pocket guide for the tourist and traveller, along the line of the canals [electronic resource] : and the interior commerce of the state of New York, by Horatio Gates Spafford
1825 Memoir: Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, by Cadwallader David Colden | also here |
1825 Narrative of the Festivities Observed in Honor of the Completion of the Grand Erie Canal, uniting the waters of the Great Western Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, by William L. Stone | also here |
1825 Facts and observations in relation to the origin and completion of the Erie canal, by John Rutherford [i.e.: Rutherfurd]
1825 Laws of the State of New York, in Relation to the Erie and Champlain Canals: Together with the Annual Reports of the Canal Commission Ers, and Other Documents Requisite for a Complete Official History of Those Works. Also, Correct Maps Delineating the Routes of the Erie and Champlain Canals, and Designating the Lands Through which They Pass. Volume 1 | Volume 2 | also here |
1829 Memoir of De Witt Clinton: With an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents, by David Hosack | Part 2 |
1831 Brief
View of the System of Internal Improvement of the State of
Pennsylvania, by Mathew Carey
"The time will come, when Canals shall pass through every vale--wind round
every hill--and bind the whole country in one bond of social intercourse."
1831+ Annual report of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, respecting the tolls collected, and the property transported on the canals ...with other statistical information |1848+ | 1820 | 1824+ |
1834 Report of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund |1836 |
1835 Report of the canal commissioners on a resolution of the Assembly of the 23d February, relative to the cost of canals and rail-roads, March 14, 1835
1836 Report
of Frederick C. Mills, Engineer, to the Honorable the Canal
Commissioners of the State of New York, January 13, 1836.
Survey of a canal route from Rochester to Olean
1841 Report of the Canal Commissioners, on the petition of inhabitants of Monroe county, praying for the removal of the canal feeder dam. April 13, 1841 (Ass. doc. 1841, no. 250)
1841 "Dams at the Rapids," Rochester Daily Democrat, April 16, 1841, Page 2.
1842 An
act to provide for paying the debt and preserving the credit of the
state. March 29, 1842 [The "Stop Law"]
§10. All further expenditure on the public works now in the progress
of construction, shall be suspended until the further order of the
legislature.
1842 "The
Rapids Dam," Rochester
Daily Democrat, April 30, 1842, Page 3-1
The Sheriff commenced yesterday, tearing down the Dam at the Rapids, about
which there was been so much trouble during the past year. It was
the property of the state, and had been presented by the Grand Jury as a
nuisance. Its abatement was ordered, and by its abatement, a
protracted controversy will be terminated.
1843 Annual
Report of the Canal Commissioners, January 14, 1843, New York
State Assembly Document No. 25
Page 79: The new feeder dam across the Genesee river, at the rapids,
has been partly removed as a nuisance, by the sheriff of Monroe, in
pursuance of an order of the court of that county.
The removing of a part of the dam reduced the water in the river so low
that it became necessary to repair the old feeder dam, which crosses the
river about fifty rods above the new one, and raise the banks of the
feeder between the old and new dam, to obtain a sufficient supply of
water. It is believed that it will be necessary to maintain a dam at this
point of sufficient height to afford the requisite supply of water for the
canal.
1844 Report of the Committee on Canals on so much of the Governor's message as relates to canals.
1845 Five years on the Erie Canal: an account of some of the most striking scenes and incidents, during five years' labor on the Erie Canal, and other inland waters, by Dea M. Eaton, missionary of the American Bethel Society.
1847 Report on the diversion of the water of the Genesee River, by Daniel Marsh
1848 Report of the Canal Board in relation to the diversion of the waters of the Genesee river, March 24, 1848. New York State Assembly Document No. 172. Also includes Reports Upon the expense and practicability of converting Honeoy, Canadice, Hemlock, and Conesus lakes ito reservoirs, and upon the sources of supply for the Erie and Genesee Valley canals.
1849 The Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton, by William W. Campbell
1850 Report of the Canal Board in relation to Honeoye, Conesus and other Lakes | also here | New York State Senate Document No. 40.
1850 Annual report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the canals of the State of New York.
1854 Report: of a survey of the Genesee Valley Canal, made in September, 1854, by Daniel Marsh and Silas Cornell
1855 Map of the Genesee Valley Canal
1858 Map and profiles of New-York State canals
1863 Documentary Sketch of New York State Canals, by S.H.Sweet
1866 Origin and History of the Measures that Led to the Construction of the Erie Canal: Written at the Request of the Buffalo Historical Society, by George Geddes
1869 Map of the New York State Canals Completed and in Progress
1870 Map of the New York state canals completed and in progress
1870 Origin of the Erie Canal: Services of Benjamin Wright
1877 "The Erie Canal, and its relations to the City of New York," Scribner's Monthly 25(1):117-125 (November, 1877)
1898 Millions of the People's Dollars Lost!: A Startling Array of Facts. Report of the Canal Investigation Commission
1900 Report of the Committee on Canals of New York State
1905 Location of barge canal and harbor at Rochester, N.Y report, by Lyman Edgar Cooley
1906 History of the Canal System of the State of New York, Together with Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada, Volume 1, by Noble E. Whitford | Volume 2 | Also here | and here |
1908 Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Works on the Canals of the State for the year ended September 30, 1908 and on the Trade and Tonnage of the Canals for the year 1908. | 1915 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |
1908 An Historical Review of Waterways and Canal Construction in New York State, by Henry Wayland Hill
1909 Artificial waterways and commercial development (with a history of the Erie canal), by A. Barton Hepburn
1909 Canal enlargement in New York State : papers on the barge canal campaign and related topics
1911 The cost of transportation on the Erie Canal and by rail, by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
1914 Rochester and its early canal days : reminiscences of the author, while engaged on the New York state water-ways, the Erie, Genesee Valley, Black River, and other lateral canals, by Capt. Horace Pierce Marsh
1915 "The Cost of the Erie Barge Canal," by H. G. Moulton, Journal of Political Economy 23(5):490-500 (May, 1915) | also here |
1915 The Barge Canal System Being Constructed by the State of New York, by Frank M. Williams
1916 The Story of the New York State Canals, by Frank Martin Williams, New York State Engineer and Surveyor,
1918 The New York state canals; the canal as a carrier of coal
1922 History of the Barge Canal of New York State, by Noble E. Whitford
1925 The Story of the New York State Canals: Historical and Commercial Information, by Roy G. Finch, State Engineer and Surveyor
1948 "Rivalry Between the New York Central and the Erie Canal," by David Maldwyn Ellis, New York History 29(3):268-300 (July, 1948)
1949 "Rochester and the Erie Canal," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 11(3 & 4):1-24 (July & October, 1949)
1950 "Private Enterprise in Inland Navigation: The Mohawk Route Prior to the Erie Canal," by Nathan Miller, New York History 31(40:398-413 (October, 1950)
1951 "Erie Canal, Mother of Cities," by Blake McKelvey, New York Historical Society Quarterly 35(1):55-71 (January 1951)
1959 "A traveling school of science on the Erie Canal in 1826," by Samuel Rezneck, New York History 40(3):255-269 (July, 1959)
1961 "Canal Or Railroad?: Imitation and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston," by Jules Rubin, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 51(7):1-106:
1962 "The enterprise of a free people": canals and the Canal Fund in the New York economy, 1792-1838, by Nathan Miller
1966 Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854, First Edition, by Ronald E. Shaw | Table of Contents | Full text of 1990 edition on line |
1969 Irish immigrant participation in the construction of the Erie Canal, by George J. Svejda
1974 "A Note on the Economic Viability of the Erie Canal, 1825-1860," by Ronald W. Filante, The Business History Review 48(1):95-102 (Spring, 1974)
1976 Hydrology and Environmental Aspects of Erie Canal (1817-99), by W. B. Langbein, Geological Survey Water-supply Paper 2038
1988 "George Washington, the West, and the Union." by W. W. Abbott, Indiana Magazine of History 84(1):3-14 (March, 1988)
1990 Erie water west: a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854, Second Edition, by Ronald E. Shaw
1990 Canals For A Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860, by Ronald E. Shaw | another copy |
1992 Floating West: the Erie and other American canals, by Russell Bourne
1993 Common labour: workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860, by Peter Way
1994 "The Great Water Bridges: The Story of the Magnificent Genesee River Aqueducts," by Donovan A. Shilling, Crooked Lake Review (June, 1994)
1994 "The Genesee Valley Canal," by James Warlick, Rochester History 56(4):1-24 (Fall, 1994)
1996 The artificial river : the Erie Canal and the paradox of progress, 1817-1862, by Carol Sheriff
2000 "Diary of a Young Girl – The Erie Canal in 1822, Part I," Rochester History 62(3):1:27 (Summer, 2000) | Part 2 62(4):1-27 (Fall, 2000) |
2000 The Erie Canal, Modern Marvels Video
2005 Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, by Peter L. Bernstein
2009 Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire, by Gerald Koeppel | Table of Contents |
2009 Transformative Historical Infrastructures: The Case of the Erie Canal, by Jamie M. Fischer
2009 Impossible engineering: technology and territoriality on the Canal du Midi, by Chandra Mukerji
2010 "The Erie Canal and Rochester: Past, Present and Future," by Thomas X. Grasso, Rochester History 72(1):1-32 (Spring 2010)
History of the Erie Canal (Documents, Pamphlets, Articles, &c.)
Images of the Erie Canal in Rochester and Vicinity, including pictures of the first and second aqueducts across the Genesee River
Research the Erie Canal at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County
| Erie Canal | Genesee Valley Canal | Welland
Canal |
DeWitt Clinton |
| Montezuma
National Wildlife Refuge |
North
River Steamboat |
Saint Lawrence Seaway | James
Geddes |
Railroads
1831 An
act to incorporate the Rochester Canal and Rail-Road Company.
March 26, 1831.
1832 An act to incorporate the Tonawanda Rail-Road Company. April 24, 1832.
1835 Address to the people of the state of New York, by New-York and Erie Railroad Convention
1836 An act to provide for the construction of a rail-road from Auburn to Rochester. May 13, 1836.
1837 "Report &c. to the Board of Directors of the Tonawanda Railroad Company," American Railroad Journal, 6:481-485 (August 5, 1837)
1839 The
North American Tourist
Page 67: Tonawanta Rail-road construction details.
1844 An act to authorize the Tonawanda Railroad Company to connect their railroad with the Auburn and Rochester Railroad in the city of Rochester. May 19, 1844.
1844 Auburn
Journal and Advertiser, November 27, 1844, Page 2.
The connecting link between the Auburn and Rochester and Tonawanda
Rail-ways has been completed; a train of cars pass over on Tuesday last.
1849 Annual Report on the Railroads of New York (published annually) | 1866 | more | and more |
1851 "The Opening of the Erie Railroad," American Railroad Journal 7(21):321-325 (May 24, 1851)
1853 An act to authorize the consolidation of certain railroad companies. April 2, 1853.
1853 "Consolidation of the Albany and Buffalo Lines of Railroads," American Railroad Journal 26(17):266-267 (April 23, 1853)
1853 "Consolidation of the Central Lines," American Railroad Journal 26(22):341-342 (May 28, 1853). Marger agreement
1853 "The New York Central Railroad Company," American Railroad Journal 26(28):351-357 (June 4, 1853). Complete merger agreement.
1853 "Editorial Correspondence," American Railroad Journal 26(48):673-674 (October 22, 1853). Journey on the New York Central
1853 Map showing the several railroads consolidated into the New York Central
1854 Map of the Great Central Railway Line of the west and connecting lines.
1855 Annual report of the New York Central Railroad Company for the year ending September 30th, 1855 | also has links to reports through 1869 | also here |
1856 Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York
1859 Annual Report of the New York Central Railroad Company, this includes reports for 1853 through 1862, plus the consolidation agreement
1860 History
of the Railroads and Canals of the United States of America,
Volume 1, by Henry Varnum Poor
1876 Map of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and its principal connections.
1883 Annual Report of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company
1885 Railroad Transportation, Its History and Its Laws, by Arthur Twining Hadley
1886 "Discrimination in Railway Rates," by Gerrit L. Lansing, Popular Science Monthly 28 (February, 1886) | Part 2 (March, 1886) |
1889 The New York central and Hudson river railroad and the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdenburg railroad, by Charles Taintor
1889 The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances, by Thomas Curtis Clarke
1893 The New York Central & Hudson River R.R. and connections.
1899 Between the ocean and the lakes; the story of Erie, by Edward Harold Mott
1900 New York Central and Hudson River Railroad map
1907 "Electrification of the Rochester Division of the Erie Railroad," by W. N. Smith, Electric Railway Review 18(15):428-436 (October 12, 1907)
1908 A Congressional History of Railways in the United States to 1850 by Lewis Henry Haney
1909 When railroads were new, by Charles Frederick Carter
1910 A Congressional History of Railways in the United States: Volume II, The railway in Congress: 1850-1887, by Lewis Henry Haney
1911 The Modern Railroad, by Edward Hungerford
1913 Map of the Empire United Railways
1914- Annual reports of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company
1916 The New York Central railroad, 1831-1915
1917 The Railroad Problem, by Edward Hungerford
1919 The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody
1921 America's greatest railroad system--the New York Central, by Charles Frederick Carter
1926 The
beginnings of the New York Central Railroad; a history, by
Frank Walker Stevens.| also here
|
1932 "Early Railroads of New York," by Edward Hungerford, New York History 13(1):75-89 (January, 1932)
1938 Men and iron; the history of New York Central, by Edward Hungerford.
1940 Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies. Preliminary Report, Part 1. History of the New York Central, etc.
1942 New York Calling, video (20 min) by New York Central Railroad
1944 "The Rochester, New York and Pennsylvania Railroad," by C. F. H. Allen, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 64:32-34 (May, 1944)
1947 The Road of the Century: The Story of the New York Central, by Alvin Fay Harlow | also here |
1948 "Rivalry Between the New York Central and the Erie Canal," by David Maldwyn Ellis, New York History 29(3):268-300 (July, 1948)
1950 The Big Train, video (26 min) by New York Central Railroad
1953 Railroads of New York: a study of government aid, 1826-1875, Harry Hubert Pierce | also here |
1955 "The Lincoln Inaugural and Funeral Trains," by G. Murray Campbell, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 93:67-72 (October, 1955)
1936 The American railroad network, 1861-1890, by George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu
1967 "'Young Lion of the West', The story of a pioneer railroad locomotive," by Richard F. Palmer, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 117:48-52 (October, 1967)
1968 "Farewell to the Twentieth Century Limited," by Arthur D. Dubin, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 119:61-62 (October, 1968)
1968 "Railroads in Rochester’s History," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 30(4):1-28 (October, 1968)
1971 "The N. Y. Central Elevates Its Tracks Under Municipal Pressure," by Joseph Barnes, Rochester History 33(1):1-24 (January 1971)
1971 "Coal Trains North: The Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company," by Robert R. Rothfus, The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 54(3):264-273 (July, 1971) The Rochester and Pittsburgh was one of several railroads competing for the coal trade from western Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes during the 1880's.
1971 Main line to oblivion; the disintegration of New York railroads in the twentieth century, Robert B. Carson. | also here |
1978 "The Origin of American Railroad Technology, 1825-1840," by Darwin H. Stapleton, Railroad History 138:65-77 (Autumn, 1978)
1981 The beginnings of the New York Central Railroad : a study of men, money and materials, by Ann Marie Scanlon. PhD dissertation, Syracuse University, August 1981
1999 A nation of steel: the making of modern America, 1865-1925, by Thomas J. Misa
1999 New York Central Railroad, by Brian Solomon
2000 "The Standardization of Track Gauge on North American Railways, 1830-1890," by Douglas J. Puffert, The Journal of Economic History 60(4):933-960 (December, 2000)
2002 Regulating railroad innovation: business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920, by Steven W. Usselman
2005 The Gangly Country Cousin Lehigh Valleys Auburn Division, by Herbert V Trice
2015 Rails in Rochester and Monroe County, by Richard "Dick" Chait
The
Growth of Railroads in the Capital District (in chronological order)
A History of Rochester, New York Railroads , includes nice maps.
Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway, an electric interurban railway that operated between Rochester N.Y. and Geneva N.Y. from 1903 to 1930.
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum is home to the largest collection of historic trains in New York State
Rapid
Transit
1853 "The
Way to Wealth for Our City is on the Railways Within the City," American
Railroad Journal 26:296-297 (May 25, 1853)
1890 The
Street Railway Gazette 5:27 (February 1890)
The Rochester City and Brighton Street Railway Company has received
permission from the council to operate its cars by electricity. If
this permission is granted the company will take up its tram rail and
relay its tracks with girder rails; it expects to have 40 electric cars in
operation by the first of August, and to change the entire system of horse
power to electricity within the next two years.
1899 Souvenir of Rochester its attractions and pleasure resorts, by Rochester Railway Company
1904 The City of Rochester, Appellant, v. Rochester Railway Company, Respondent, 98 App. Div. 521, November, 1904, Appellate Division, Fourth Department
1913 "Public Service as Private Profit: A Study of Rochester's Street Railway in Comparison with the Municipally Owned Lines of Great Britain," by Herman L. Fairchild The Common-good of Civic and Social Rochester 6:236-243 | here | also here |
1918 Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917, by James Blaine Walker
1927 A guide to Rochester, New York : the beautiful, the hospitable . . . the quality city : map and index of bus routes, by Rochester Transit Corporation
1930 A preliminary report on transit facilities for Rochester, New York, by Harland Bartholomew & Associates
1952 Rochester & Sodus Bay Railway Co., 1889 to 1929, the Royal Blue Line, by William Reed Gordon
1952 Company
exhibits. Rochester Transit Corporation.
New York (State) Board of Inquiry on Rochester Transit Work Stoppage.
1952 Union
exhibits. Division no.282, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America.
New York (State) Board of Inquiry on Rochester Transit Work Stoppage.
1953 The story of the Canandaigua Street Railway Company: the Canandaigua Electric Light and Railway company, Ontario Light and Traction Company, and the Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway, by William R. Gordon.
1962 The Rochester Street Railway, 1859-1906, by Henry Bradford Smith, UR Master's thesis
1968 "Rochester’s Turbulent Transit History," by Henry Bradford Smith and Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 30(3):1-24 (July 1968)
1974 "The Rochester Subway: Experiment in Municipal Transit," by Andrew D. Lipman, Rochester History 36(2):1-24 (April 1974)
1975 Horse car and trolley days in Rochester, 1862-1956, by William Reed Gordon
1975 94 years of Rochester railways, by William Reed Gordon
1979 The Rochester New York integrated transit demonstration | Volume 1 | Volume II | Volume III | Interim Report |
1983 Annual report for Rochester Transit (1982 - 1983) that has a good history of trolleys, the subway and bus system in Rochester.
| Rochester Railway Company | Horse
Car |
Horse
Bus |
Electric
Streetcars |
| Rochester Transit Corporation | Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority | Rochester Subway | Interurban Railways |
Bicycles
2008 "Bloomers
& Bicycles: Health and Fitness in Victorian Rochester," by Karen
McCally, Rochester History 69(2): (Spring 2008)
| History of the Bicycle |
Highways,
Automobiles and Buses | also see Historic
Highways of America |
1828 Report
from the Engineer appointed to examine a route for a National Road from
the City of Washington to the Northwestern frontier of the State of New
York, December 29, 1828, 20th Congress, 2nd Session, H.Doc. No. 38 |
Map also here
|
1897 The standard road-book of New York State: complete road-maps, showing quality of the roads.
1900 "The Horseless Age is With Us," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 26, 1900, Page 10.
1905 "The Great Roads across the Appalachians," by Albert Perry Brigham, Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 37(6):321-339 (1905)
1909 Annual Report of the New York State Commission of Highways
1910 Western New York perpetual route book and official hotel and garage list, by Bert Van Tuyle
1910 5000 miles overland : wonderful performance of a wonderful car : the story of Miss Scott's journey overland by [Gertrude Lyman Phillips].
1914 Report of the New York State Commission of Highways, Volume I
1924 The old Mohawk turnpike book, by Nelson Greene
1951 Forging ahead on the New York State Thruway
1959 "The Utica Turnpike Road Company," by Harry F. Jackson, New York History 40(1):18-32 (January, 1959)
1977 I-390, Genesco Expressway, Monroe County: Environmental Impact Statement
1980 NYS-47, Rochester Outer Loop Construction, Greece: Environmental Impact Statement
1987 Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, by Kenneth T. Jackson
1987 Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers, by Bruce E. Seely
1994 Down the asphalt path : the automobile and the American city, by Clay McShane. | also here | another copy |
1994 Taking charge: The Electric Automobile in America, by Michael B. Schiffer
2010 "The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways: The Road to Success?," by Elisheva Blas, The History Teacher 44(1):147-142 (November, 2010)
Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America
Aviation
and Airports
Departed Flights
Old airline timetables
Timetable images More old airline timetables
| Greater
Rochester International Airport |
Cunningham-Hall Aircraft Corporation | Mohawk
Airlines Flight 121 |
| Airline Deregulation | Civil Aeronautics Board |
Energy
| also see Electricity | and District
Steam |
1832 "Consumption of Fuel in 1831," Rochester
Daily Advertiser, March 28, 1832, Page 2-5.
1833 "Economy in Fuel," The Genesee Farmer 3(3):18 (January 19, 1833)
1833 "Fuel," The Genesee Farmer 3(4):30 (January 26, 1833)
1838 Settlement
in the West: Sketches of Rochester by Henry O’Reilly
Page 382: Fuel - Wood and Coal
1847 "High
Price of Wood - Wood Lands of Monroe County," Rochester
Daily Democrat, March 10, 1847, Page 2.
Wood selling for $3 per cord due to scarcity.
1858 "Comparative value of wood and coal," Rochester Union and Advertiser, October 12, 1858, Page 3-3.
1860 "The High Price of Fuel," Rochester Union and Advertiser, December 11, 1860, Page 2-3.
1864 "The Peat Lands in Bloomfield," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 7, 1864, Page 2-1
1864 "Peat for Fuel," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 11, 1864, Page 2-3.
1864 "More Peat," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 13, 1864, Page 2-4.
1864 "Peat for Rochester," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 19, 1864, Page 2-3.
1864 "Medina Peat," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 20, 1864, Page 2-3.
1865 "Mention of oil and Peat being discovered in Clyde," Rochester Union and Advertiser, September 18, 1865, Page 2-1.
1866 "The Peat Compressing Works," Rochester Union and Advertiser, July 26, 1866, Page 2.
1866 Special Report on Coal: Showing Its Distribution, Classification and Cost Delivered Over Different Routes to Various Points in the State of New York, and the Principal Cities on the Atlantic Coast, by Sylvanos H. Sweet
1880 "Economic
Hydraulic Power," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 3,
1880, Page 4.
A Waterfall Compressing Air Into a Stupendous Motor.
1880 "Municipal Gas Company," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, September 11, 1880, Page 4.
1891 Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle, February 20, 1891, Page 6.
The rate for gas for lighting purposes until further notice will be as
heretofore, $1.80 per M. If bills are paid on or before the 10th of the
month, $1.60 per M. Gas for heating or mechanical purposes $1 per M.
Municipal Gas Light Co.; Citizens' Gas Company
1893 Testimony taken before the special Senate committee relative to the coal monopoly.
1901 Rochester, the Power City
1902 "Coal Monopoly Here in 1865," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, October 16, 1902, Page 9.
1912 The abatement of smoke, by Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce
1918 "Soft
Coal Shut Off; Less Light and Car Service," Democrat and
Chronicle, January 14, 1918, Page 15.
Public and Private Schools Closed Till Further Notice.
1918 "Rochester and the Coal Famine," Democrat and Chronicle, January 15, 1918, Page 8.
1918 "City Schools to Open Wednesday," Democrat and Chronicle, January 20, 1918, Page 23.
1917 The Evolution of Cooking and Heating, by H.H. Manchester
1918 The New York state canals; the canal as a carrier of coal
1924 "The Development of Gas and Electricity in Rochester," Gas and Electric News and Yearbook 1:6-11 (February 1924)
1927 "How Early Rochester Kept Warm," Democrat and Chronicle, October 30, 1927, Page 76.
1934 "Smoke Inspector Scans 1,850 Stacks in 30-Year Effort to Make Rochester One of the Cleanest Cities in State," Democrat and Chronicle, January 7, 1936, Page 15.
1949 "PSC
Order Due Tomorrow for Heating by Gas," Democrat and Chronicle,
April 4, 1949, Page 19.
4,400 Householders Due To Benefit Under Hearing Writ.
1951 Coal by W. H. B. Court
1954 Pennsylvania's
Coal Industry, by Robert D Billinger
Almost all coal used in Rochester came from Pennsylvania.
1957 "Try
Our 'Free' Air," Democrat and Chronicle, October 13, 1957, Page C1
City's vigilant smokewatchers keep it pure -- at a price.
1963 Rochester: A City of Quality, (video, 27 min) by Rochester Gas & Electric
1970 "The Mystery of Fuel Wood Marketing in the United States," by Arthur H. Cole, The Business History Review 44(3):339-359 (Autumn, 1970)
1971 "Coal Trains North: The Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company," by Robert R. Rothfus, The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 54(3):264-273 (July, 1971) The Rochester and Pittsburgh was one of several railroads competing for the coal trade from western Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes during the 1880's.
1972 Solid
waste disposal plans for Rochester and Monroe County, by
Rochester Engineering Society, Rochester, N. Y.
Volume 2, pages H48-H58: The sale of steam energy
1973 A study of the energy-fuel needs of the Rochester, New York, area, by Industrial Management Council, March 1973
1976 "Monroe County Resource Recovery Project," by D. Carlson and D. Spencer, Proceedings of the Mineral Waste Utilization Symposium 5:196-203 (April 1976)
1977 "The Wilsonians as War Managers: Coal and the 1917-18 Winter Crisis," by James P. Johnson, Prologue 7:193-208 (Winter, 1977)
1977 The coal industry in America : a bibliography and guide to studies, by Robert F. Munn
1978 "The
Monroe County Resource Recovery Facility," by David B.
Spencer, Proceedings of the Mineral Waste Utilization Symposium
6:204-210 (May 1978)
A 20-year agreement has been reached between Monroe County and RG&E
for purchase of the RDF product. The agreement required RG&E to
utilize as much fuel as is possible up to the maximum available from the
facility and to pay 100% of the net value of coal saved after adjustments
for all incremental costs incurred by RG&E for co-firing of RDF with
pulverized coal.
1978 Information
Circular, Issue 8826, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Mines (1980)
Pages 50-51: Monroe County Resource Recovery Facility, by D. B.
Spencer
1983 Networks of power: electrification in Western society, 1880-1930, by Thomas Parke Hughes
1984 "Recovering
the cost of failure," Democrat and Chronicle, July 25, 1984,
Page 1B | Part 2
| Part 3 | Part
4 |
County explores options after decision to cut losses, shut its resource
recovery plant.
1984 "Sources of Energy in Rochester’s History," by Rod Baily, Rochester History 46 (3 & 4):1-24 (July & October, 1984)
1987 "Morin unveils proposal for incinerator," Democrat and Chronicle, October 23, 1987, Page 1 | Part 2 |
1987 "Chronology of Monroe County's Resource Recovery Facility," Democrat and Chronicle, October 23, 1987, Page 8B
1987 "Questions & Answers Concerning Lucien Morin's Solid Waste Proposal," advertisement, Democrat and Chronicle, November 1, 1987, Page 7B.
1998 "Lake Water Cooling Project Webster, New York," Proceedings of the International District Energy Association 89:239-253 (June 1998)
1998 "The Development of Gas & Electricity in Rochester," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 60(4):1-24 (Fall, 1998)
2000 Petrolia: the landscape of America's first oil boom, by Brian Black
2008 The mantra of efficiency: from waterwheel to social control, by Jennifer Karns Alexander
Locations of Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites in the U.S. New York State
| High Falls | Rochester Gas & Electric | Ginna Nuclear Plant |
| Big
Inch Pipelines |
Tennessee Gas Pipeline |
Electricity
| also see Energy | and District
Steam |
1883 "The
Brush Electric Light Works, Rochester, N. Y." Scientific
American 49(6):83 (August 11, 1883)
1887 The
Association of Edison Illuminating Companies
Page 47: Minutes of annual meeting held at the Powers Hotel in
Rochester, N.Y. February 9th & 10th, 1887
1892 The
Electrical World 20(8):126 (August 10, 1892)
Albany, N. Y.-A certificate of an agreement for the consolidation of the
Rochester Gas Company, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of
Rochester, and the Rochester Electric Light Company has been filed. The
name of the new company is the Rochester Gas and Electric Company. The
capital is $4,300,000. The following are the directors: J. L. Judson,
Frederick Cook, A. H. Harris, G. C. Hollister, G. A. Hollister, H. H.
Craig, George W. Archer, and Harry L. Brewster, of Rochester, and William
Remple, H. G. Remple, R. A. C. Smith, Theodore F. Wood, and W. E. Stiger,
of New York.
1890 "For
an Electric Plant," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Mar 9,
1890, Page 5.
New power house for Edison electric light company. [Station No. 2]
1890 "Street
Railway System," Democrat and Chronicle, October 10, 1890,
Page 6.
How the electric current is to be distributed from powerhouse on Mill
Street.
1891 "An
Important Conveyance," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
July 15, 1891, Page 6.
Junius Judson and his wife to the Edison Electric Illuminating Company for
property on Mill street and Brown's Race,
1891 "Central Stations Operated by Water Power," by Geo. A. Redman, Superintendent Brush Electric Light Company, Rochester, N.Y., Proceedings of the National Electric Light Association 14:152-178 (September 1891)
1894 "Electric Station of the Citizens' Light and Power Co., of Rochester, N. Y." by Robert Cartwright, Transaction of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 31:335-360 (March 1894)
1894 "Station of the Citizens' Light and Power Co., of Rochester, N. Y." by Robert Cartwright, Engineering News 31:205 (March 8, 1894)
1897 "The
Electric Lighting System of Rochester, N.Y.," by George B. Muldaur,
The Electrical Engineer 24(491):293-296 (September 30, 1897)
Page 293: Station No. 1. Edison street. Held in reserve.
1900 "Suit
for Race Rentals," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
December 12, 1900, Page 12.
Commissioners of the Carroll and Fitzhugh race have begun an action
against the Rochester Gas & Electric Company for the use of the water
power used by Edison Station No. 1 of the Gas and Electric company. The
sum demanded is $100, the rental for the past year. The action will be
tried in municipal court.
1902 "The Central Station of the Citizens' Light and Power Company, Rochester, N.Y.," Electrical Review 40(3):146-152 (February 1, 1902)
1903 "Street Lighting in Rochester, N.Y.," by E. A. Fisher, City Engineer, Municipal Engineering 25:357-358 (November 1903)
1904 "Great
Merger Means Expansion," Democrat and Chronicle, May 1,
1904, Page 20.
Rochester Railway and Light Company.
1908 "Expensive
Plans for Betterment," Democrat and Chronicle, October 29,
1908, Page 10.
Among the improvements added to the company's equipment under those plans
will be a low-pressure steam turbine engine directly connected to a
reciprocating engine. The steam turbine engine now in use by the company
is high pressure. The low-pressure engine will take the exhaust steam from
the reciprocating engine and from it will develop the same arnount of
power generated by the reciprocating engine, thus getting from the same
amount of coal twice the amount of power that was formerly possible.
1909 "System of the Rochester railway and lighting company," Electrical World 53(3):151-154 (January 14, 1909)
1909 "Station No. 3 of the Rochester Railway & Light Company," Electrical World, 53(4):207-211 (January 21, 1909)
1909 "The Power System of the Rochester Railway & Light Company," Electric Railway Journal 33(4):128-132 (January 23, 1909)
1909 "Large
water-power stations of the Rochester railway and light company," Electrical
World, 53(5):267-271 (January 28, 1909)
Illustrated descriptions of stations 4 and 5.
1909 "Water-Power and Transformer Stations of the Rochester Railway & Light Company," Electric Railway Journal 33(8):328-330 (February 20, 1909)
1910 Electric
Power Plants: A Description of a Number of Power Stations Designed
by Thomas Edward Murray
Pages 186-202: Central Station of the Citizens' Light & Power Company
Rochester, N.Y.
1911 "Water Power Plants on the Genesee," Fire and Water Engineering 49:131 (February 22, 1911)
1911 Souvenir:
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company
of Boston. February 20, 1886-February 20, 1911
Page 14: The Company, having obtained a franchise from the city of
Boston, leased under date of Jan. 30, 1886 a piece of property extending
from Head Place to Bumstead Court. The equipment of ths station was
immediately increased by the addition of one horizontal tubular boiler,
one 125 h.p. Armington & Sims engine driving two H-type dynamos which
came from the New Orleans Exposition, and similar engine and dynamos which
had been sent from the Edison Station at Rochester, N.Y.
1911 Anna
Quirk, as administratrix of the estate of Frank E. Quirk, deceased,
vs. Rochester Railway & Light Company, Record on Appeal,
State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department
[Quirk was killed in a boiler explosion at Station No. 3 on July 16,
1910.]
Page 221: Testimony of Thomas H. Yawger for Defendant.
Q. Were you furnishing power for any other plants or steam for any
other plants that were not running your engines?
A. Yes, sir; for the Genesee Reduction Company.
Q. For any others?
A. Not at that time.
1913 Thirty Years of New York, 1882-1892: Being a History of Electrical Development in Manhattan and the Bronx, by New York Edison Company
1914 "Mr.
Thomas H. Yawger," Electrical World 63(6):342-343 (February
7, 1914)
Began service with the Edison Illuminating Company of Rochester, Dec. 1,
1888, as a helper.
1921 "Giant Water and Steam Turbines and Big Switchboard Help in Lighting Rochester," Democrat and Chronicle, January 30, 1921, Page 39 | Part 2 |
1922 Rochester
in History
Chapter XXIV - The Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation
1922 Forty Years of Edison Service, 1882-1922, by Thomas Commerford Martin
1924 "The Development of Gas and Electricity in Rochester," Gas and Electric News and Yearbook 1:6-11 (February 1924)
1936 "The Story of the Development of Electric Utilities in Rochester," by Thomas H. Yawger, Rochester Gas and Electric News 20(7):226-231 (August, 1936) | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |
1954 "T.
H. Yawger Dies; 'Mr. Electricity,'" Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, March 27, 1954, Page 81,
Thomas H. Yawger, 89 years old. Worked in the original Edison
station starting in 1888, 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
1957 The R.G.&.E. Story, A history of Rochester Gas and Electric Company of Rochester, NY. | Chart of RG&E's corporate predecessors | also here |
1963 Rochester: A City of Quality, (video, 27 min) by Rochester Gas & Electric
1967 "King
Coal Bows to Fuel of Future," Democrat and Chronicle,
October 24, 1967, Page 13.
New Ginna nuclear plant produces power that would require 12,000 to 13,000
tons of coal each week.
1968 "Old
Electric System Discontinued," Tenth
Ward Courier, July 1, 1968, Page 5.
It was part of the Edison three-wire, direct current network, first
established 1n Rochester in 1886, and has been in continuous service for
82 years.
1970 Brookwood Nuclear Power Plant, by Rochester Gas & Electric. Renamed for Robert E. Ginna when it opened in 1970.
1975 Sterling Power Project: Nuclear unit no. 1, Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (Construction-Permit Stage), Patsy L. Hendricks, editor.
1983 Networks of power: electrification in Western society, 1880-1930, by Thomas Parke Hughes
1984 "Sources of Energy in Rochester’s History," by Rod Baily, Rochester History 46 (3 & 4):1-24 (July & October, 1984)
1997 Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation Annual Report
1998 "The Development of Gas & Electricity in Rochester," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 60(4):1-24 (Fall, 1998)
1998 150 Years of Service 1848-1998, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation
Pioneers of RG&E (retiree newsletter)
Archive issues of the RG&E News hosted by the RG&E Pioneers Club
| Charles
Brush |
Thomas
Edison |
Electric
Power |
Music
| also see Eastman School of Music
|
1892 “History
of Music in Rochester,” by Herve D. Wilkins, Publications of the
Rochester Historical Society 1:90-97 (1892)
1923 "Music in Rochester from 1817 to 1909," by Richard H. Lansing, Rochester Historical Society, Publication Fund Series, 2:135-189 (1923).
1924 “Music in Rochester from 1909 to 1924,” by Stewart B. Sabin, Publications of the Rochester Historical Society 3:1-36 (1924)
1932 “A Retrospect of Music in Rochester,” by Stewart B. Sabin, Centennial History of Rochester, 2:45-90 (1932)
1965 "Long-Haired Rolling Stones Cut Short by Police," Democrat and Chronicle, November 2, 1965, Page 1 | Part 2 |
1976 "'Pot'
holds rock singer," Democrat and Chronicle, March 22, 1976,
Page 1 | Part
2 |
David Bowie, the English rock singer, was arrested early yesterday at the
Americana Rochester Hotel on marijuana charges.
1984 From Eagle Tavern to Eastman Theatre : a sesquicentennial history of music in Rochester, by Vincent A. Lenti
1994 "David Hochstein – Rochester’s Promising Violinist," by Vincent A. Lenti, Rochester History 56(3):17-24 (Summer, 1994)
2008 Struggling to define a nation: American music and the twentieth century, by Charles Hiroshi Garrett
2013 Sounds of war: music in the United States during World War II, by Annegret Fauser
2022 "Gap
Mangione: 'A lot of logs' on the fire that led to 1964 riots," by
Gap Mangione as told to Jeff Spevak, WXXI News, August 19, 2002.
The Pythodd Club on Clarissa Street
Sports,
Entertainment, and Museums
1911 The
city of Rochester and vicinity : where to go, how to go, and what to
see in and about the flower city, by Charles Ketcham Watkyns
1954 "The Theater in Rochester During Its First Nine Decades," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 16(4):1-28 (July 1954)
1955 "The First Century of Art in Rochester -- to 1925," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 17(2):1-24 (April, 1955)
1964 Yankee theatre: the image of America on the stage, 1825-1850, by Francis Hodge
1987 "A History of the Circus in Rochester," by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 49(3):1-24 (July, 1987)
1990 "Baseball in the 19th Century," by Priscilla Astifan, Rochester History 52(3):1-24 (Summer, 1990) | Part Two 62(2):1-12 (Fall, 2000) | Part Three 63(1):1-12 (Winter 2001) | Part Four 63(2):1-12 (Spring 2001) | Part Five 64(4):1-24 (Fall, 2002) |
1996 Silver seasons: the story of the Rochester Red Wings, by Jim Mandelaro and Scott Pitoniak | Second edition published in 2010 |
1999 Rochester's lakeside resorts and amusement parks by Donovan A. Shilling.
2004 Hockey in Rochester The Americans' Tradition, by Blaise M. Lamphier.
2004 Sam Patch, the famous jumper, by Paul E. Johnson
2007 Armed forces: masculinity and sexuality in the American war film, by Robert T. Eberwein
2016 The Story of Sam Patch, America’s First Professional Waterfall Jumper, by Ella Morton
2022 "Norman Rockwell uplifts at Utica's MWP Art Institute," by Rebecca Rafferty, Rochester City Newspaper, July 26, 2022
Newspapers,
Radio, and Television
1914 Fakes
in American Journalism, by Max Sherover
1922 Rochester journalism forty years ago, by Myron Tuthill Bly
1933 "The Spread of the Newspaper Press in New York Before 1830," by Milton W. Hamilton, New York History 14(2):142-151 (April, 1933)
1950 A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Television on the Family, by Raymond J. Murphy. MA Thesis, University of Rochester.
1951 Rochester's TV Guide (March 10-16, 1951)
1970 "Radio and Television in the Life of Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 32(2):1-28 (April 1970)
1996 Selling the air: a critique of the policy of commercial broadcasting in the United States, by Thomas Streeter
2000 The making of American audiences: from stage to television, 1750-1990, by Richard Butsch
2001 Freedom of the air and the public interest: First Amendment rights in broadcasting to 1935, Louise Margaret Benjamin
2002 Radio goes to war: the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II, by Gerd Horten
2004 Listening in: radio and the American imagination, by Susan J. Douglas
2018 "WRUR is on the air:" Seventy years of College Radio at the University of Rochester
| Democrat and Chronicle | City Newspaper | The Jewish Ledger | Rochester Business Journal | El Mensajero | Minority Reporter |The Empty Closet | past issues | Rochester Beacon |
On-line newspaper archives | Democrat and Chronicle (1990 to present) | Library of Congress | Historic NYS Newspapers | Fulton Newspapers |
| The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) | The Revolution (newspaper) | ||
| Democrat and Chronicle | Rochester Times-Union | Gannett Company | City
Newspaper |
| WHEC-TV |
WHAM |
WXXI | WHAM-TV |
| WROC-TV | WRUR-FM | WROC | WUHF-TV |
Architecture,
Housing and Urban Renewal
1883 The
Powers fire-proof commercial and fine art buildings, by
Alphonso A. Hopkins
1925 "First Families of Rochester and Their Dwellings," by Edward R. Foreman, Publications of the Rochester Historical Society 4:347-351 (1925)
1930 A
Civic Center for Rochester, New York.
Proposed design for a Civic Center.
1946 Greek revival architecture in the Rochester area, by Carl F. Schmidt.
1950 The Rochester plan for veterans housing. How the citizens of Rochester, New York cooperated to provide attractive apartment-homes for veterans of World War II through non-profit housing projects, by Rochester Management Inc.
1959 Architecture and architects of Rochester, N.Y., by Carl and Ann Schmidt.
1964 "The Changing Face of Rochester," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 26(2):1-24 (April 1964)
1964 "Historic Antecedents of the Crossroads Project," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 26(4):1-23 (October 1964)
1964 Not beyond reach : the story of how Rochesterians helped solve the problem of housing for senior citizens, [by Rochester Management]
1965 "Housing and Urban Renewal; The Rochester Experience," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester History 27(4):1-28 (October 1965)
1970 Footprints
: the story of Rochester Management, Inc.
Pages 16-17: Chapter VI: The Expanding University
1991 "The Changing Form and Function of Urban Mansion Districts: The Example of Rochester, New York," by Brian Coffey, Material Culture 23(1):15-25 (Spring, 1991)
1996 Architecture in the family way: doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900, by Annmarie Adams
1997 "Three Floors and a Basement: Homogeneity and Diversity in an Early Automobile Suburb," by Darrell A. Norris, Material Culture 29(1):25-45 (Spring, 1997) Brighton, New York
2001 Rochester's downtown by Donovan A. Shilling.
2003 Rochester's Corn Hill : the historic Third Ward by Michael Leavy.
2003 Rochester's historic East Avenue district by Michael Leavy.
2004 Downtown America: a history of the place and the people who made it, by Alison Isenberg
2005 Rochester's South Wedge by Rose O'Keefe..
2006 Southeast Rochester by Rose O'Keefe.
2007 "The Life and Times of Midtown Plaza," by Karen McCally, Rochester History 69(1):1-32 (Spring 2007)
2007 Colored property: state policy and white racial politics in suburban America, by David M. P. Freund
2010 Rochester's Past Futures: Genesee Crossroads
2010 Rochester's Downtown Architecture: 1950-1975, by Daniel J. Palmer
2022 Clarissa Uprooted: Unearthing the Stories of Our Village (1940s-early 1970s) | Video |
Landmark Society of Western New York
Rochester Architecture, contains black-and-white photographs of Rochester architecture which were assembled for exhibitions held at the Memorial Art Gallery. Most of the views are building exteriors, but there are some interior views. Some images are illustrations of notable Rochester buildings, as well as the Genesee River and its waterfalls.
| Powers Building | Gannett Building | National Register of Historic Places listings in Rochester, New York | Blue Cross Arena |
Spanish
American War
1897 Facts
and Fakes about Cuba, by George Bronson Rea
1903 New York and the War with Spain: History of the Empire State Regiments
1951 "Rochester and the Spanish American War," by Patricia E. Fisler, Rochester History 13(2):1-24 (April, 1951)
| Spanish-American War | Philippine Insurrection |
World
War I
1917 Our
part in the great war, by Arthur Gleason.
1918 Our first year in the great war. by Francis Vinton Greene
1918 Kodak Park in War Time, by Eastman Kodak Company
1919 "Last
Gun Has Been Made at Big Plant Here," Democrat and Chronicle,
March 31, 1919, page 16.
Symington-Anderson is about to close works. Great cannon plant in
University Avenue
1920 How we advertised America; the first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe, by George Creel
1922 Rochester in History with portraits and Our Part in the World War
1924 World war service record of Rochester and Monroe County, New York
1930 Rochester in the war work of the American Library Association, by William. F. Yust
1943 "Rochester and World War I," by Sylvia R. Black and Harriett J. Naylor, Rochester History 5(4):1-24 (October, 1943)
1977 "The Wilsonians as War Managers: Coal and the 1917-18 Winter Crisis," by James P. Johnson, Prologue 7:193-208 (Winter, 1977)
1989 "Rochester During World War One: Women On The Homefront," by Al Mancini, Rochester History 51(3):1-11 (Summer, 1989)
1989 "Rochester Over There," by Dr. Ellen More, Rochester History 51(3):12-32 (Summer, 1989)
1994 America in the Great War: the rise of the war welfare state, by Ronald Schaffer
1997 Reel patriotism: the movies and World War I, by Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
2004 Over Here: The First World War and American Society, by David M. Kennedy
2008 Unsafe for democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's covert campaign to suppress dissent, by William H. Thomas
2010 "The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919," Carol R. Byerly, Public Health Report 125(Suppl3):82-91 (2010) | also see other articles in this issue |
[Records of service in the European War]. Young Men’s Christian Associations, Rochester N.Y. [1922?]. Contains listing of names of those from Monroe and Livingston counties who served in the YMCA of Rochester N.Y. during the first World War, along with completed information forms of participants. Also contains a history of the Municipal Museum Rest &Recreation Room.
| World War I | United
States home front during World War I |
1918 Influenza Pandemic | Red Scare |
| Four Minute Men |
World
War II
1943 "Rochester’s
First Year in the War for Survival," by Blake McKelvey, Rochester
History 5(1):1-24 (January, 1943)
1947 Physiology
of man in the desert, by Edward F. Adolph | also here
|
Adolph
was a member of the Department of Physiology at the University of
Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry from 1925 until his death in
December 1986. Before the invasion of North Africa in November 1942,
the U.S. Army hired him to study the effects of heat on soldiers, which
was declassified in 1947 and published.
1978 "Restricted Areas: German Prisoner-of-War Camps in Western New York, 1944–1946," by George T. Mazuzan and Nancy Walker, New York History 59(1):54-72 (January, 1978)
1986 American nuclear guinea pigs: three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens | also here |
1987 The Navy V-12 Program : leadership for a lifetime, by James G. Schneider
1993 "Rochester in World War Two: The Kodakids," by Mary Jo Lanphear Barone, Rochester History 55(4):21-44 (Fall, 1993)
1993 "Rochester High Schools and the War Effort," by Jeffrey Scott Brown, Rochester History 55(4):1-20 (Fall, 1993)
1994 "Not in Our Back Yard – POW Encampment at Cobbs Hill," by Terry Lehr, Rochester History 56(3):3-16 (Summer, 1994)
1999 The Plutonium Files, by Eileen Welsome | also here |
1999 Their day in the sun: women of the Manhattan Project, by Ruth Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg
2009 German POWs on the American Homefront, by J. Malcolm Garcia
2004 "Arsenal of Freedom – Part One: Rochester Products that Helped Win World War II," by Bob Marcotte, Rochester History 66(1):1-36 (Winter, 2004)
2004 "Arsenal of Freedom – Part Two: Rochester War Plant Workers During World War II, by Bob Marcotte, Rochester History 66(2):1-32 (Spring, 2004)
2010 "Prisoners of War Camps in Rochester - Were they humane?" by Ryan McKelvie, St. John Fisher College
2011 "Operation Pied Piper: The Evacuation of English Children During World War II," by Dwight John Zimmerman
The Manhattan Project: A New and Secret World of Human Experimentation
Atomic Heritage Foundation - University of Rochester
| World War II | Manhatttan Project | German
prisoners of war in the United States |
| United States home front during World War II | The Plutonium Files |
Korean
War
1976 Korean
War Scrapbook, Volume 1 | Volume
2 |
| Korean War |
Vietnam
War
1986 "A
City in Conflict: Rochester During the Vietnam War," by Ruth
Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Rochester History 48(3&4):1-48 (July
& October, 1986)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial of Greater Rochester
| Vietnam War | Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War |
Maps
1612 Map
of New France by Samuel Champlain
1632 Map of New France by Samuel Champlain
1656 Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, & c., ca. 1656, par Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville
1684 Franquelin's map of Louisiana.
1685? British Map of North America
1771 Map of the Country of the Six Nations
1774 Map of British North America, from Shepherd (1923)
1804 Map of the State of New York
1812 Map of the northern part of the state of New York
1814 Map of Hundred Acre Tract
1814 Map of Rochester in the spring of 1814, by John Kelsey (1854)
1817 Map of the Original One Hundred Acre Tract
1820 Map of the village of Rochester in 1820: as drawn by the publisher from actual survey published by Horatio N. Fenn (1856) | also here |
1820 Map of Johnson and Seymour's Land on the East Side of the Genesee River at Rochester
1823 Map of New York
1823 Map of the western part of the state of New York | another copy | and another |
1824 Map of the state of New York
1826 The Traveller's pocket map of New York : from the best authorities
1827 Voyage du Général Lafayette aux États-Unis. June 7, 1825: Marquis de Lafayette stops in Rochester on his tour of the United States.
1827 Map of Rochester by E. Johnson | also here |
1829 Map of the County of Monroe
1830 A Connected View of The Whole Internal Navigation of the United States.
1832 Map of Rochester from a correct survey
1833 Map of Rochester shows lot numbers
1834 Map of Rochester, may be by Valentine Gill.
1834 Map of the City of Rochester, by Elisha Johnson
1834 Map of the railroads and canals, finished, unfinished, and in contemplation, in the United States
1838 Settlement in the West: Sketches of Rochester by Henry O’Reilly | also here | Maps | Map of the City of Rochester | North Part | South Part
1838 Rochester City.from New York Atlas
1839 Map of New York exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads &c
1840 Map of the County of Monroe
1845 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1847 Daily American Directory of the City of Rochester for 1847-8 | Map by E. Johnson |
1849 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1851 Plan of the City of Rochester, by Marcus Smith
1852 Map of the City of Rochester
1852 Map of Monroe County
1853 Rochester,
by John William Hill, lithograph published by Smith Brothers, New
York. | another
copy |
This view is looking east down Buffalo Street, United States Hotel is the
taller building just beyond the bridge over the canal.
1853 Map of the various channels for conveying the trade of the north west to the Atlantic sea-board exhibiting the tributaries & drainage of the trade into each and the effect of the enlargement of the Erie Canal, illustrating the position taken by William J. McAlpine, C.E. in his Annual Report as State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, 1853.
1855 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1855 Map of the state of New-York showing its water and rail road lines. Jan 1855, by direction of John T. Clark State Engineer & Surveyor.
1858 Gillette's map of Monroe Co., New York : from actual surveys
1860 Map of Johnson & Seymour's Mill-Race in the City of Rochester, drawn to accompany Silas Cornell's report of the effects of the old aqueduct on the rights of mill owners on that mill-race, by Silas Cornell
1861 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1863 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1864 Lloyd's New Map of the United States, the Canadas and New Brunswick, showing every Railroad.
1869 Map of the New York State Canals Completed and in Progress
1870 Map of Rochester
1872 Map
of Rochester : from the latest surveys
1872 Post Route Map Of The State Of New York
1874 Map of Rochester
1879 Map of the City of Rochester | also here |
1880 View of Rochester, New York
1882 Map of the City of Rochester
1884 Map of the City of Rochester, by Silas Cornell
1885 Map of the City of Rochester
1887 Map of Monroe County, New York
1888 Robinson's atlas of the city of Rochester, Monroe County, New York
1890 Map of the City of Rochester
1890? Despatch, N.Y., Rochester's great industrial suburb
1892 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Rochester, Monroe County, New York, Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 |
1892 Map of the City of Rochester
1893 "Rochester NY Quadrangle," USGS Topographical Map
1895 Map of the state of New York showing the location of the original land grants, patents and purchases.| also here |
1895 Map of the City of Rochester
1899 Map of the City of Rochester
1900 Map of the City of Rochester, showing pavements in use, by Edwin A. Fisher
1900 Plat book of the city of Rochester, New York
1901 Map of the City of Rochester
1902 Plat Book of Monroe County New York, including the City of Rochester
1905 Map of the City of Rochester
1910 Birdseye view of Rochester and Despatch
1911 Rochester USGS topographic map (1:62,500)
1915 Map of the City of Rochester
1922 Map of the City of Rochester
1924 Map of Monroe County
1926 Map of Rochester
1931 USGS Topographical Maps | Rochester East | Rochester West | Mendon Ponds | Genesee Junction |
1934 One Hundred Acre Tract, by Hiram E. Bryan and Kenwyn F. Phillips, April 16, 1934
1938 Mapping Inequality - Rochester
1940 Map of the City of Rochester
1950 City of Rochester Annexation Map
1974 Rochester's Era of Annexations 1901-1926, by Joseph W. Barnes. Includes several maps showing annexations.
1990 Satellite Photo of Rochester
Historic USGS Maps of New England and New York
List of Plat Maps in Rochester Images | Individual maps |
City of Rochester Historic Map Viewer, shows 1888, 1900, 1910, and 1935 plat maps overlaid on current map.
Monroe County Interactive parcel map
Office of the Monroe County Historian Map Collection
Rochester Public Library Local History Division Map Collection
Other
Resources
Rochester
Village Trustee and City Council Proceedings 1817-1900 |
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Rochester History Journal
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Local History and Genealogy at the Rochester Public Library
Rochester Images includes maps, pictures of the reservoirs and pipeline construction | List of Plat Maps in Rochester Images | Individual Maps in Rochester Images Including City Directory Maps |
Rochester City Directories | 1847 Directory | 1870 Directory | 1871 Directory | 1872 Directory | 1873 Directory | 1874 Directory | 1875 Directory | 1877 Directory | 1878 Directory | 1879 Directory | 1884 Directory | 1891 Directory | 1910 Directory | Monroe County Directories |
Newspapers from NYS Historic Newspapers | Rochester Telegraph (1818-1830) | Rochester Daily Telegraph (1827-1829) | Monroe County Newspapers |
Rochester Daily Advertiser (1826-1827) several issues
Genesee Farmer | Volume 1 1831 | Volume 2 1832 | Volume 3 1833 | Volume 4 1834 | Volume 5 1835 | Volume 7 1837 | Volume 8 1838 |
The Monthly Genesee Farmer | Volume 1 1836 | Volume 2 1837 | Volume 3 1838 | Volume 4 1839 |
The New Genesee Farmer | Volume 1 1840 | Volume 2 1841 | Volume 6 1845 | Volume 7 1846 | Volume 8 1847 | Volume 9 1848 | Volume 10 1849 | Volume 11 1850 | Volume 13 1852 | Volume 14 1853 | Volume 16 1855 | Volume 17 1856 | Volume 18 1857 | Volume 19 1858 | Volume 20 1859 | Volume 21 1860 | Volume 22 1861 | Volume 23 1862 | Volume 25 1864 | Volume 26 1865 |
The Crafsman | 1830 |
Rochester newspapers on
line at fultonhistory.com | also
see fultonsearch.org |
| Rochester
Album 1825 - 1828 | Rochester
Daily Advertiser & Telegraph 1828 - 1829 | Rochester
Daily Democrat 1840-1857 | Rochester
Daily Record 1910-1974 | Rochester
Democrat & Chronicle 1872- 1948 | Rochester
Evening Express 1860 -1882 | Rochester
Republican 1829 - 1849 | Rochester
Telegraph 1818 - 1820 | Rochester
Times Union 1928-1944 | Rochester
NY Union & Advertiser 1862 1885 | Rochester
NY Tenth Ward Courier 1922-1962 |
Note: This site has lots of newspapers, but the search feature is
lame. With some effort you can sometimes find what you're looking
for. Best to have a newspaper and date from the newspaper index or
other source.
On-line newspapers at the Library of Congress
Old Photos from Democrat and Chronicle
Newspapers on-line at Rochester
Public Library
Rochester Daily Advertiser | 1826
| 1827
| 1833
| 1846
|
On-line
Books, Magazines, etc. of Monroe County, NY
This site has a marvelous collection of scanned books and magazines from
the local area.
Rochester
Public Library Digital Collections
Bibliography of the Genesee Region, 1790 to 1990 | Search | Browse | All results |
Monroe County References from the Family History Library
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Digital Collections at the Rochester Public Library | historic serials collection | newspapers | scrapbooks |
History
of the University of Rochester Campuses and Buildings
Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science (also here) |
New York Heritage Digital Collections
Basic Sources for Rochester History
Laws of the State of New York 1638-1922
Publications of the
Rochester Historical Society
1892 Volume
1. | Table
of Contents |
1898 Volume 2. Sketch of the Public and Private Life of Samuel Miles Hopkins, of Salem, Connecticut
Rochester
Historical Society Publication Fund Series
1922 Volume
1 | Table
of Contents |
1923 Volume 2 | Table of Contents |
1924 Volume 3 | Table of Contents |
1925 Volume 4 | Table of Contents |
1926 Volume 5 | Table of Contents |
1927 Volume 6 | Table of Contents |
1928 Volume 7 (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1929 Volume 8 (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1930 Volume 9 (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1931 Volume 10 Centennial History of Rochester, N.Y. Volume I - Beginnings (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1932 Volume 11 Centennial History of Rochester, N.Y. Volume II - Home Builders (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1933 Volume 12 Centennial History of Rochester, N.Y. Volume III - Expansion (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1934 Volume 13 Centennial History of Rochester, N.Y. Volume IV - Jubilee (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1936 Volume 14 (snippet) | Table of Contents |
1937 Volume 15 General Index to Volumes 1-14 (snippet)
1937 Volume 16 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - The History of Rochester Libraries; Part II - Lewis H. Morgan's European Journal
1939 Volume 17 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - The History of Education in Rochester; Part II - Selected Articles on Rochester History
1940 Volume 18 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - Foreign travelers' notes on Rochester and the Genesee country before 1840; Part 2 - Nurseries, farm papers, and selected Rochester episodes.
1941 Volume 19 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Charles Williamson: Genesee Promoter - Friend of Anglo-American Rapprochement, by Helen I. Cowan
1942 Volume 20 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - Reminiscences of Rochester in the Nineties; Part II - William Berczy's Williamsburg Documents
1943 Volume 21 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - Letters Postmarked Rochester: 1817-1879; Part II - Selected Articles
1944 Volume 22 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Rochester in the Civil War
1946 Volume 23 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Part I - The Life and Work of Jane Marsh Parker, by Marcelle LeMénager Lane; Part II - Water Power Documents, by Lewis H. Morgan, Dwight Porter, and others; ; "Lewis Henry Morgan on the flour mills and water power at Rochester," by Paul Kosok; "The flour mills, and flour manufacture of Rochester," by Lewis Henry Morgan; "Additional water power documents," by Natalie F. Hawley; "Power at Rochester," by Dwight Porter.
1948 Volume 24 (snippet) | Table of Contents | Henry A. Ward: Museum Builder to America, by Roswell Ward.
1972 Volume
25 (worldcat) | Table of Contents
| Part I - The Architecture of Andrew Jackson Warner in Rochester, New
York, by Susanne Keaveney Maruoka; Part II - The Importance in Early Iron
Skeleton Construction of the Wilder Building (1887-88) in Rochester, New
York, and Related Structures, by Lee S. Kimbrough; Part III - The Gothic
Revival Chapel of The Sacred Heart (1890), Rochester, New York, by
Carl K. Hersey
The above publications are indexed in Bibliography of the Genesee Region, 1790 to 1990 | Search | Browse | All results |
| Annual Reports of the Canal Commissioners for the year | |||||
| 1816 | 1817 | 1818 | 1819 | 1820 | 1821 |
| 1822 | 1823 | 1824 | 1825 | 1826 | 1827 |
| 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 |
| 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 |
| 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |
| 1846 | 1847 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 |
| 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 |
| 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 |
| 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
| 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 |
| 1876 | 1877 | ||||
| American
Railroad Journal | also here
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| 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 Vol 6 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 |
| 1841 | 1842 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 | 1846 |
| 1847 Vol 20 |
1848
Vol 21 |
1849 Vol 22 |
1850
Vol 23 |
1851 Vol 24 | 1852 Vol 25 |
1853
Vol 26 |
| 1854 |
1855 |
1856 |
1857 |
1858 |
1859 |
1860 |
| 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 Vol 38 | 1866 Vol 39 | 1867 Vol 40 |
Additional information, suggestions,
questions, and corrections are always welcome and can be submitted to:
Morris A. Pierce
Department of History
364 Rush Rhees Library
University of Rochester
Rochester NY 14627-0070
m.pierce@rochester.edu
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