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In this 1898 letter to Susan B. Anthony, Bush reflects on her work fifty years earlier. She writes that her action "ended the feeling with women that…
Nellie McElroy was Rochester’s first female police officer. This journal records her daily patrols of streets and places of entertainment, accounts of…
Groups such as the National Organization of Women regularly compiled directories listing local women business owners. This helped people in the…
Social unrest and political activism provided insight into working conditions. Those advocating for changes such as protective laws and collective…
This book contains vocational guidance for women, such as how to obtain and retain employment. It begins: “Fifty years ago, if we can believe the…
This cookery course is just one of many classes offered through the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. They were meant to improve the lives and…
Notable on this list of students are Sarah and Huldah Ruggles, the daughters of Samuel Ruggles, a missionary serving in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)…
This book is a high school reunion in book form. Created by graduates of the Tracy Female Institute in Rochester, it contains photographs of graduates…
Sentiment books were popular in the 19th century – a precursor to high school yearbooks and their personal messages from friends. Martha Colvin’s book…
Improving educational opportunities for children in the City of Rochester is still the goal of area non-profits and activists.
Susan B. Anthony’s sister Mary Stafford Anthony (1827-1907) was a long-time teacher and principal in Rochester schools. Her steady income allowed…
Community cookbooks have been a popular method of fundraising for a good portion of the 20th century. Churches, synagogues, and clubs, organizations,…
Here, author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) offers advice to Rochester activist Susan Porter (1811-1880) as she works on the book that will become…
Bloomers were a form of dress consisting of long loose trousers with a mid-length skirt over them. They were created as a reaction against the tight,…
Julia Griffiths (1811-1895) was Frederick Douglass’ (1818-1895) business manager and a tireless fundraiser for his work. She wrote numerous letters to…
ABW members were asked by Midge Costanza, then aide to President Jimmy Carter, to attend a meeting at the White House to discuss the issue of domestic…
Miscellaneous buttons
In 1985, domestic violence activists were gathering around New York State as the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NYSCADV). Travel…
Constance Mitchell moved to Rochester in the 1950s and became ensconced in the Civil Rights Movement. As a political activist, she was involved with…
A grassroots civil rights organization, FIGHT (Freedom-Integration-God-Honor-Today), rose in the 1960s in response to racial discrimination in…
The Rochester Bi-Sexual Women’s Network was one of the first in the area to address the complexity around bisexuality. RBWN formed in the late 1980s,…
First named as the Gay Revolution of Women, the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC) stemmed from the lesbian caucus of the Gay Liberation Front at the…
Often dismissed as feminine busywork, the needle arts have long been taken up by activists. Abolitionists and suffragists raised funds by selling…
An issue celebrating what was then the Memorial Art Gallery’s 75th year honors the Herdle sisters “who together guided the Gallery for 50 of its 75…
Harriet Hollister Spencer (1887-1962), horticulturalist and civic leader, designed the Garden of Fragrance at Rochester Museum of Science. She was an…
Elizabeth Hollister Frost (1887-1958) was a widely published poet and author when the Centennial Committee asked her to compose a poem celebrating the…
Local poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was a pioneer of 20th-century modernism. Inspired by the Japanese haiku and driven by her impending death from…
From at least 1889 on, M. Louise Stowell (1861-1930) was an exhibiting member of local and national art clubs. In 1896, Stowell was the only American…
For much of the Victorian era, girls were encouraged only to copy artwork, not to draw from life. Here, Ruth Sibley Gade (1878-1977), Emily Sibley…
$130,000 was required to establish the University in 1850, and although the school would be open to male students only, the names of women pledging…
Under the leadership of our second president, David Jayne Hill, an Extension Department was organized in 1894 to offer evening and Saturday lectures…
"Let every woman use the ability God has given her, do the greatest work she can, and in her own way. May no man say to her 'thus far thou shalt go…
Like the pins that many high school and college students put on their backpacks to share their political and pop culture affinities with the world,…
Satirical suffrage postcards were popular at the turn of the 20th century. This postcard depicts Uncle Sam as an angry-looking woman wearing a…
Emma Biddlecom Sweet (1862-1951) was a distant cousin of Susan B. Anthony and served as her secretary intermittently from 1895 to 1906. She also held…
"Utopia Limited Waltz." Arranged by Paul Dupret. London: Chappell &
"Princess Ida Lancers." Arranged by Charles Coote. London: Chappell &
"Iolanthe Quadrille." Arranged by Charles D'Albert. London: Chappell &
"Patience Quadrille." Arranged by Charles D'Albert. London: Chappell &
"The Pirates of Penzance Quadrille." Arranged by Charles D'Albert. London: Chappell &
![[Contemporary engraving] Ruddigore](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/83214021a69a36a7af402573091ca134.jpg "[Contemporary engraving] Ruddigore")
[Contemporary Engraving.] Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (London), Feb. 26, 1887. "Ruddigore at the Savoy Theatre" by J. Jellico and H.…
[Political parody.] Funny Folks. The Comic Companion to the Newspaper. London: James Henderson, Vol. X No. 485, Mar. 15, 1884."Companions in Arms."…
[Illustrated sheet music]. Arthur Sullivan. "Im Calld Little Buttercup." New York: N.p. (1879). Full page illustrated cover by B. Day. "Presented to…
[Illustrated sheet music]. Arthur Sullivan. "When I Was A Lad." New York: N.p. (1879). Full page illustrated cover by B. Day. "Presented to all…
[Contemporary engraving]. Vanity Fair (London), Feb. 14, 1891."Royal English Opera" [Richard D'Oyly Carte] by "Spy."
[Contemporary engraving]. Vanity Fair (London), Mar. 14, 1874."English Music" [Arthur Sullivan] by "Ape."
![[Contemporary engraving]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/7d18d52cccb44964c083e4e6fb0cbd58.jpg "[Contemporary engraving]")
[Contemporary engraving]. Vanity Fair (London), May 21, 1881."Patience" [W. S. Gilbert] by "Spy."
[Playbill]. Rochdale: Theatre Royal. (Week of) Nov. 12, 1900.DOyly Cartes Opera ["C"] Company.
[Playbill]. Brighton: Theatre Royal and Opera House, July 31, [1882] D'Oyly Carte's Opera Company in The Pirates of Penzance.
The Daily Telegraph. St. John, N.B. (Canada), Jan. 8, 1884. The sole front page news article reports the London premiere of Princess Ida.
[Print]. New York: Tricorn Press Inc. [1948]. A Panorama of Gilbert &
[Program]. New York: Standard Theatre, Mar. 3, 1882. Patience. R. D'Oyly Carte's Opera Comique Company.
[Program]. New York: Standard Theatre, week ending Oct. 31 [1885]. The Mikado. J.C. Duffs production that competed with DOyly Cartes original New York…
[Poster]. D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. London: David Allen &
[Broadside]. Berlin: Alex Honig (ca. 1890). Carl Schultz-Theatre (Hamburg) production of Der Mikado.
[Playbill]. New York: Metropolitan Opera House, Nov. 5 [1900].The Metropolitan English Grand Opera Company in The Mikado. Cast of characters includes…
[Contemporary engraving]. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (London), Mar. 21, 1885. "The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre" by John Jellicoe.
[Periodical cover]. New York: Sunday News, June 18, 1939. Bill Robinson in Hot Mikado.
[Sheet music]. [Arthur Sullivan.] "Potpourri aus der Oper The Mikado." Budapest: Zipser u. Konig, n.d. (ca. 1890).
[Sheet music]. Arthur Sullivan. "Lied des KoKo." Vienna: Jos. Weinberger &
[Sheet music]. Arthur Sullivan. "Little Maid of Arcadee." Words by W.S. Gilbert. London: Edwin Ashdown, n.d.
[Portrait]. Paris: n.d. "Arthur S. Sullivan."(Goupilgravure plate after the 1888 painting by Millais).
[Contemporary engraving]. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (London), Apr. 13, 1878."Mr. Rutland Barrington, as Dr. Daly in The Sorcerer" by M.…
[Plug tobacco label]. "Josephine." Richmond, VA: A. Hoen &
![[Cabinet photograph]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/63154117118637ff3d3797c219e70086.jpg "[Cabinet photograph]")
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Mora, [1879]. Venie Clancy as Josephine in the E.E. Rice production of H.M.S. Pinafore.
[Playbill]. New York: Broadway Theatre (ca. April 1879). Gorman's Original Philadelphia Church Choir Company in H.M.S. Pinafore.
[Contemporary engraving]. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (London), Aug. 24, 1878.Mr. George Grossmith, Jun., as The Admiral in H.M.S. Pinafore…
[Playbill]. Providence: Providence Opera House, week commencing April 19 [1880]. D'Oyly Carte's London Opera Company in The Pirates of Penzance.
[Advertising souvenir]. New York: Squires Bros., [1885]. Mikado. Illustrated paper napkin. Gilberts lyrics surround an advertising parody verse.
[Button]. [American, n.d., ca. 1885]. Brass button with relief figures of the "Three Little Maids from School." Based on photograph of Geraldine St.…
[Button.] [American, n.d., ca. 1885]. Metal button with oriental figure based on portrait of Geraldine Ulmar as Yum-Yum.
![[Advertising fan]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/105d6ffae9569655950cdf7373e4616a.jpg "[Advertising fan]")
[Advertising fan.] New York: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., 1886.Cardboard fan advertising Thea-Nectar Pure Chinese Tea. Color lithograph of…
![[Trade card]. Fairbanks Clairette Soap (ca. 1885).](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/39532db31eb84cc418369e9208dd5eb6.jpg "[Trade card]. Fairbanks Clairette Soap (ca. 1885).")
[Trade card]. Fairbanks Clairette Soap (ca. 1885).
![[Trade card]. Thompson’s Patent Glove-Fitting Corsets. New York: Trautmann Bailey & Blampey (ca. 1885).](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/29f43f91cb9efa212fbdcd703025fa59.jpg "[Trade card]. Thompson’s Patent Glove-Fitting Corsets. New York: Trautmann Bailey & Blampey (ca. 1885).")
[Trade card]. Thompsons Patent Glove-Fitting Corsets. New York: Trautmann Bailey &
![[Trade card] Wheelock Pianos, 1885.](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/d3a4236757406ca0664dd5421b0f2a8f.jpg "[Trade card] Wheelock Pianos, 1885.")
![[Trade card]. Ladies Exchange (ca. 1885).](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/b78e11e24c5d5c70d1138788a13a325e.jpg "[Trade card]. Ladies Exchange (ca. 1885).")
![[Trade card] The Mikado](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/739272068ca413741c95c88b895fae7e.jpg "[Trade card] The Mikado")
![[Picture puzzle]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/4bf63e1058a1f010b98d9d0050f607af.jpg "[Picture puzzle]")
[Dissected picture puzzle.] New York: E.I. Horseman, n.d. (1885). Forty-five piece color lithographed cardboard puzzle of "Three Little Maids From…
![[Cigar label] Patience](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/22dc72d14bcec64601b5eeddf6f0d4f8.jpg "[Cigar label] Patience")
![[Cigar label] Dick Deadeye](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/4152aeeb5ef9ff53879c611932573296.jpg "[Cigar label] Dick Deadeye")
[Cigar label]. Dick Deadeye. New York: Heppenheimer &
![[Cigar label] Pinafore](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/b845fd026d07b4881c3a327612d97c71.jpg "[Cigar label] Pinafore")
[Cigar label]. Pinafore. [Philadelphia: Geo. S. Harris &
![[Cabinet photograph]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/cfdd1ce4617db100574a7a2c79831b2d.jpg "[Cabinet photograph]")
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Sarony, [1882]. Lillian Russell in Patience.
![[Trade card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/744ede150981b83fdb92b5c4fe77a66e.jpg "[Trade card]")
![[Advertising card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/2583bfc3260957c5bee991dad69a7820.jpg "[Advertising card]")
[Advertising cards]. Between The Acts. New York: B. Day, (ca. 1879). Three of a set of seven large advertising cards for Between The Acts Cigarettes,…
![[Trade card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/215cc56e89637a4ce563ad91c2d903d5.jpg "[Trade card]")
[Trade card]. Large stock card overprinted with advertisement for wall papers (ca. 1879).
![[Untitled]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/cdab844f71c71eeef2d9a6ebab2bcb66.jpg "[Untitled]")
[Trade card]. Willimantic Thread. Philadelphia: L.S. Card-Label Co. (ca. 1879).
![[Paper advertisement]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/a53850c6bd1ca56c353d59db15b78ee4.jpg "[Paper advertisement]")
[Paper advertisement]. "The Crew of the Pinafore Buy Youngs Tobaccos and Cigars of Buttercup" (ca. 1879).
![[Trade card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/4bc7f308d9ca60aad24911c6901ff99b.jpg "[Trade card]")
[Trade card]. New York Miniature Opera Company. [New York]: N.p. (ca. 1879).
![[Trade card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/cc3fe5650b79e184e90578d71f52683b.jpg "[Trade card]")
[Trade card]. Stock card advertising Dutchers Fly Killer. Philadelphia: Ledger Job Print, (ca. 1879).
![[Trade card]](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/f73defddef66d8a8c3af89d2b7831d7f.jpg "[Trade card]")
[Trade card]. Gold Flake Tobacco. Windsor, Ont.: Globe Tobacco Works, (ca. 1879).
[Display cards]. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (British Lion, 1952)
[Display cards]. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (British Lion, 1952)
[Display cards]. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (British Lion, 1952)
[Lobby card]. One of eight cards designed for the 1983 film The Pirates of Penzance (Universal Pictures).
[Lobby card]. One of four cards designed for the 1950 film The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan (Lippert Pictures). This short British film either had…
[Display card]. One of eight cards designed for the 1962 film The Cool Mikado (United Artists)
[Lobby card]. Designed for Romance de un Pirata (Mexican release of the 1982 Twentieth Century Fox film The Pirate Movie).The film was loosely based…