Matthew Ballard
Vol. 4, No. 12 While cataloging the Department of History’s collection of rare books, I came across a small booklet entitled From Serfdom to Culture written by “a white-haired Rochester…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 4, No. 11 Over 200 years ago, Caroline Phipps was born near Rome, New York on March 2, 1812 to Joseph and Mary Eames Phipps. Arad Thomas writes in…
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Matthew Ballard
[caption id="attachment_1604" align="alignnone" width="640"] The Pioneer Homestead - Historical Album of Orleans County, New York[/caption] Vol. 4, No. 10 A question recently surfaced following my last article about Elizabeth Denio,…
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Vol. 4, No. 8 As I perused the pages of a death ledger from the Orleans County Home, covering the years 1873 to 1902, the phrase “inmate” appears quite regularly.…
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Volume 4, Issue 4 As we near Black History Month in February, I was researching local African American families in Orleans County and attempting to assemble an understanding of this…
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Matthew Ballard
Volume 3, Issue 40 The collections within the Department of History contain newspaper clippings, genealogies, published histories, and photographs, but a number of interesting artifacts and ephemera items serve as…
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