Collections
![Railroad Photograph Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR060.jpeg?itok=btbDDsfw)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/hrmm-iceboats.jpg?itok=K9PgrBP0)
This collection includes photographs and illustrations of bowsteerers and sternsteerers from the Ray Ruge Collection.
![Richmond Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR114.jpg?itok=yA_IDSUj)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/SRR081.jpeg?itok=wFbpD6a8)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR007.png?itok=y16tZ1v7)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/rpc1770A.jpg?itok=WOOIYMyg)
This collection contains postcards showing scenes from Rochester and the surrounding area since the early 20th century.