This scrapbook includes photographs, wedding and baby announcements, newspaper clippings and notes related to life events of the women who worked in the Ordering Department.

The collection consists of correspondence, documents, clippings, music programs, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to the musical career of Hermann Dossenbach. Also present in the collection is Dossenbach's masonic Corinthian Temple Lodge pin.

The collection consists of material of the families of Rochesterians Harriet (Hollister) Spencer (1887-1962) and her husband Thomas G. Spencer (1884-1978). Included in the collection is correspondence the Spencers received from their two children Hollister (Holly) and Thomas. While Thomas was in Europe in 1934, he wrote numerous letters home to his parents. These often included the articles which he wrote about his travels in France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Portugal and Brussels. The following year, Holly spent the summer away and wrote home frequently. Other family related materials include a day book (1869-1887) of Sarah E. Hollister, poems written about individual family members, a catalogue of Harriet and Thomas Spencer's house belongings, and a list of Harriet Spencer's family silver pieces. There is also a scrap book (1880-1910) containing newspaper clippings of social notices and obituaries pertaining to the Hollisters, Spencers, Starks and Sibleys, along with other prose and poetry clippings. Another note book contains the obituaries of Mrs. George A. Hollister, and Emmet H. Hollister (October 6, 1853), and a memorial sermon by Rev. A. G. Hall (June 18, 1871). The collection also includes photographs of various members of the Weed, Barnes, Hollister and Spencer families.

The Kendrick Philander Shedd Papers include correspondence about his resignation from the University of Rochester faculty for socialist sympathies; reminiscences of the socialist movement in Milwaukee, 1915; personal scrapbooks and autobiography; as well as published and unpublished writings. There are also scrapbooks of minutes, correspondence, and clippings on Socialist Educational Federation of Rochester, sponsored by the Progressive Working People's Lyceum and Local Rochester, Socialist Party, 1914; letters and papers concerning the Rochester Socialist Sunday School and Young People's Socialist League; scrapbooks about the Social Center at School No. 9, Rochester, 1908-10; and a defense of Shedd by Lloyd Somers, with exhibits.

This collection consists of three boxes. Box 1 contains correspondence and historical ephemera, a significant amount of which pertains to the factory opening of 1910. It also contains several style model books. Box 2 contains a scrapbook of historical newspaper clippings. Special care should be used in handling this scrapbook. In Box 3, a wide variety of business and financial information can be found, including original stock certificates and account books, as well as legal documents pertaining to the 1922 merger with Levy Bros.

The collection includes materials in four broad categories: scrapbooks, cor­respondence, photographs and autobiographical materials. The scrapbooks kept by Mrs. Laney, Esther Laney, and Augusta (Laney) Hoeing have a definite, if limited, historical interest. In her scrapbooks dating from 1872 to 1894, Mrs. Laney saved items relating to the deaths and marriages in the Laney and Walbridge families. She also collected obituaries of friends and Rochester notables, as well as items relating to the Rochester park system. All three women collected poems and hu­morous short stories cut out of newspapers and magazines. The two younger women's scrapbooks, dating from 1894 to 1917, also contain reviews of local recitals and theater performances along with newspaper clippings about national events and a few personal keepsakes.

The Lee McCanne Scrapbooks include four scrapbook volumes compiled by Lee McCanne and cover the time period 1910-1942. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, articles from magazines and trade journals, correspondence, programs, and some photographs. Much of it concerns the telephone industry in general and the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company specifically.

The collection includes correspondence, reports, and printed material relating to Folsom's career in business and government. Subjects include creation, passage, and implementation of the Social Security Act of 1935 and amendments to it; unemployment insurance plan of Eastman Kodak Company, 1920's and '30's; Rochester Civic Plan on Unemployment, 1930-34; New York State Advisory Council on Placement and Unemployment Insurance. Also U.S. House of Representatives Special Committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning (Colmer Committee), dealing with reconstruction in Europe, 1944-46; National Advisory Board on Mobilization Policy, 1950-53; U.S. Treasury Department, with emphasis on taxation and social insurance, 1953-55. Additional subjects are Committee for Economic Development, and its Committee for Improvement of Management in Government, whose report on presidential succession resulted in a constitutional amendment; and other advisory councils, commissions, and conferences. Other material relates to University of Rochester, calendar reform, and higher education in New York State and in the South. There is correspondence with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kenneth B. Keating, Oveta Culp Hobby, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Lyndon B. Johnson; a transcript of an interview with Josef Stalin, 1945; and Folsom's scrapbooks and speeches.

Collection contains scrapbooks, memorabilia of the Marsh family of Rochester.

The collection consists mainly of 31 boxed scrapbooks of clippings, most titled in Stowell's hand. Scrapbooks in Boxes 1-2 contain correspondence and reviews regarding exhibitions of her work. The scrapbook in Box 30 contains clippings of bookbindings and book covers, a few original photographs of what may be the Nordhoff bindery. The clippings in Box 31 are almost exclusively related to bookbinding with a number of original designs annotated in a hand other than Stowell's, possibly Margaret Sterling's. The collection's second Series, Artwork and photographs 1890-1910, contains photographs of Stowell, original and printed Stowell artwork as well as block prints and photographic reproductions of works by other artists, primarily Harvey Ellis. Stowell and the bookbinder Margaret Sterling may have sold prints like these at their shops, the Masu Co. and the Far East Shop.