Archival material includes unpublished records such as letters, diaries, financial records, and photographs. Information about our archival collections may be found online in the Subject Guide to the Collections. You can also browse the A-Z list of archival collections (the link is below). Our finding aids are processed at different levels. Some include item-by-item level descriptions and others are processed at the folder or box level.
Special Collections’ core architectural holdings are the drawings and records of 4 of the area’s preeminent architects: Claude Bragdon, the Dryers, James H. Johnson, and J. Foster Warner. Several other architects are represented by small numbers of projects. The area’s built environment can also be explored via photographs and printed works in the extensive local history collection, postcard collections, and family papers. For University of Rochester architecture, please contact the University Archivist, Melissa Mead.
