Below is a selected list of online exhibitions and projects, created from digitized materials spanning all areas of our collections. Digital Exhibitions Image 150 Years, 150 Treasures: An exhibit in honor of the University's Sesquicentennial 150 Treasures from the Libraries in honor of the University of Rochester’s Sesquicentennial. Image All the School's A Stage: Student Theater at the University Documents and celebrates the history of theater at the University of Rochester. Image Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bindings, 1830-1910 Chronicles the development of English and American publishers' binding from the 1830s to the early 20th century. Image Beyond Windmills: Commemorating Cervantes, Representing Don Quixote Students examine illustrations from various editions of Cervantes' Don Quixote. Image Celebrating Rochester's Rocky Simmons: The Life & Photographs of an African-American Activist Photographs of the activist, as well as those he took of people and places important to him. Image FAITH AND JUSTICE: The Life and Legacy of Minister Franklin Florence An exhibit honoring the life and legacy of Rochester Civil Rights leader and minister Franklin Florence, whose papers are held in RBSCP. Image Gilbert and Sullivan: From London to America Theatre posters, programs, letters and memorabilia related to the renowned Victorian-era theatrical partnership. Image Rochester Gas & Electric Lantern Slide Collection This online exhibit presents images of some of the over 500 glass plate lantern slides, including photographs, advertisements, etc. Image Rochester's Hope: The University of Rochester and Mt. Hope Cemetery Explores the connections between Mt. Hope cemetery and the University. Image Silent Sounds, Invisible Images: Reanimating the University's Recorded History Explore the audiovisual history of the University, from the 1920s to 2008 Image Susan B. Anthony: Celebrating "A Heroic Life" Letters, photographs, printed material and memorabilia drawn from our extensive Anthony and woman suffrage collections. Image Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement Letters, books, photographs and ephemera commemorating the passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the vote. Image Visualizing Camelot Visualizing Camelot is a digital exhibition based on a portion of the Arthurian collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. The exhibition is on display through December 2, 2024 in Rush Rhees Library. Image We Want More And We Will Have It: Women Running Rochester Showcases the many spheres in which women have made our city run, including politics, activism, education, etc. Image Wilson's Days: The Life and Legacy of Joseph C. Wilson Explores Wilson's life and legacy through photographs, correspondence, speeches, and audio and video recordings. Image Writings of Consequence: The Art of John A. Williams Highlights of the John A. Williams archive: manuscripts, drafts, notes, photographs, audio-visual materials, correspondence, etc. Digital Projects Image AIDS Education Posters Thousands of posters from over 100 countries, documenting efforts to educate/inform on AIDS. Image Frederick Douglass Project A project seeking to digitize the Frederick Douglass materials held in the collections of the University of Rochester Library. Image Lincoln and his Circle Digitized and transcribed letters to, from, and about Abraham Lincoln; writings about Abraham Lincoln; the F. Seward Diary. Image Living History Project Oral history interviews intended to preserve University of Rochester history. Image May Bragdon Diaries Project Ten transcribed, annotated, and illustrated diaries spanning 1893-1914 document the life of a single working woman set free by the bicycle. Image Post Family Papers Project All of the materials in the Post Family Papers housed in the University of Rochester Library. Image Rochester Black Freedom Struggle Online Project A permanent resource for continuing conversation, learning and research around Rochester's role in civil rights history. Image Seward Family Digital Archive Project One of the most comprehensive records of the life and times of an extended family in nineteenth-century America. Image Sibley-Watson Digital Archive Digitally reuniting four generations of Rochester’s Sibley Watson family, from Western Union to electron microscopy. Image Ward Project Digitally recreating the inventory of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, supplier of specimens around the world from 1862 to 1906. Digital Student Projects Image Carl W. Peters & His Artistic Legacy: The Rochester WPA Murals This digital project by Ellis Siepel explores the art and life of the artist Carl William Peters, including his WPA murals and his expressions of American Regionalism in Fairport, New York’s Canalside Farmland. Carl W. Peters papers (D.422) are part of the collections in RBSCP. Image From Blossom to Persimmons: Examining the Poetry of Li Young-Lee Andrea Sun’s research on the award-winning, critically acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee, explaining the extensive process and technique of developing and publishing poetry. Image Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado: Racial & Cultural Appropriation in American Theater Adaptations This digital project is the result of an independent study project with Abigail Vertrone to explore the question: How has The Mikado been adapted throughout the decades in response to the racism and cultural appropriation that plagues the original production? Image LGBTQ+ History at the University of Rochester A timeline and essays revealing the unknown history of LGBTQ+ student life at the University across the decades created by Jay Kinde '25. Image On Sir Robert Southwell's Notes This online project presents the work of Keegan Matthews and mentor Alice Wynd, examining a 17th century manuscript containing Sir Robert Southwell's biographical notes on the 1st Duke of Ormond. Image Religious Transcriptions of the Early Modern Era Transcription of religious writings The Religious Meditations of John Eaton and Jerimyes Prognostication of Jerusalem's Overthrow.
