Collections

Railroad Photograph Collection

The collection provides pictorial information showing locomotives and rolling stock of railroads that once served New York State and adjacent states and provinces.

Ice boats on Orange Lake, NY

This collection includes photographs and illustrations of bowsteerers and sternsteerers from the Ray Ruge Collection.

Richmond Collection
The Richmond collection is made up of financial records and personal correspondence relating to the Ship Richmond’s whaling voyage from 1846-1849.
Robert E. Hager Canal Boat Diagrams
The Robert E. Hager Canal Boat Diagrams collection includes drawings of construction plans of canal boats used on the Erie Canal throughout the nineteenth century.
	 Rochester Public Library, Rundel Memorial Building, construction workers laboring on new balustrade

This collection includes images relating to Rochester from the years 1920 to around 1960 selected from over 50,000 prints, safety negatives, nitrate negatives, and lantern slides.

Greetings from Rochester, New York

This collection contains postcards showing scenes from Rochester and the surrounding area since the early 20th century.