Special Collections: Rochester and Monroe County Resources: Other Resources

The Hayes-Coleman Family Papers includes correspondence, documents, diaries, physician's "visiting books," household accounts, photographs, and memorabilia of various members of the Hayes-Coleman family of Canandaigua, New York. They are primarily concerned with the Canandaigua area, but they include, either in the original or in transcript, diaries and letters relating to Frederick Maryland, Brooklyn New York, ranch life in Colorado, and the life of an art student in Paris in 1890. The digitized volumes includes two diaries from Augustus Graham Coleman.

The King Family Papers document the lives of Bradford King, and his broth Moses, as well as Moses’s daughters, Ella and Ada. The collection includes the diaries of Bradford King, the son of Gideon King who settled near Rochester in 1797. The diaries cover the period from June, 1811 to April, 1874. Much of the correspondence consists of letters written between the two daughters of Moses B. King, Ella G. King and Ada M. King. For a time Ella and Ada King operated the King Seminary for Young Ladies and Children in Rochester. When the school closed, Ella King went west and taught in an Indian school in South Dakota. Ada remained in Rochester where she tutored high school and college students.

This online exhibit presents images of some of the over 500 glass plate lantern slides which make up the Rochester Gas & Electric Lantern Slide Collection. The images here include photographs, cartoons, advertisements, diagrams, charts of figures, and maps. The photographs range from views of gas flames, testing setups, equipment, streets, and buildings to people from the Rochester area.

There are approximately 250 engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs in the Peter Barry and Local History Print Collection. The historical prints depict scenes and events in Rochester, Monroe County, and other sites in upstate New York.

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