Collections : [Rochester Public Library]

These records document the activities of the Burroughs Audubon Nature Club of Rochester, the oldest conservation group in the area. Included are booklets, correspondence, manuscripts, newsletters, and documents related to Rochester-area native flora and fauna. Also included are a variety of glass lantern slides and 35mm slides observing various wild plants, birds, and insects in varying stages of their life cycles. The lantern slides almost exclusively focus on different local bird species and their nests. Within the lantern slides are what seems to be different series of slides mixed in with one another. The previous original series order and list are currently unavailable and the slides have been put together in numerical order by slide.

This collection consists of the records of the Opera Theatre of Rochester, an organization that produced professional opera in Rochester from 1962 to 1999. The materials in this collection include documents, correspondence, slides, photographs and video recordings. Materials in this collection date between 1979 and 2004.

The Monroe County Defense Committe was the local representation of the Council of National Defense, a federal organization that coordinated war work on the home front in World War One. Materials in this collection include pass books, correspondence, memos, membership cards, receipts, orders, reports, and minutes.

This collection consists of materials collected by Rochesterian David Kyle through his interest in local history and employment by Gutenberg Books. The materials include several different groups of items, only some of which are retained in the final David Kyle collection. The collection includes issues of the Tool Post (Consolidated Machine Tool Corp.) from February 1943 to November 1947, a Haloid Xerox box, photographs, trade publications, ephemera and 67 postcards. Also present are a small group of papers and ephemera from Thomas Macksamie and Howard Reed; these items were salvaged by the donor from a pile of trash outside 507 Averill Avenue in Rochester and represent personal items from former residents at the address. Dated materials in this collection range between 1906 and 1968.