The titles in the Genesee Valley Historical Reprints series are titles from Milne Library’s Genesee Valley Historical Collection, which are scarce and have not yet been digitized. This series preserves these titles of local significance and provides free online access to the full text.
Debuted in the fall of 2013, Geneseo Authors highlights the scholarship and creativity of SUNY Geneseo faculty and alumni. These books offer audio and interactive content in several accessible formats. These titles are also available free online and through Amazon.com.
Roberta Harman Ford’s Old Elbows books are dedicated to her many grandchildren. This series is inspired by each of these children and their experiences. Ford believes that reading books about common but difficult situations will equip children to better handle them and facilitates communication between children, parents, and other caregivers.
The titles in the Genesee Valley Historical Reprints series are titles from Milne Library’s Genesee Valley Historical Collection, which are scarce and have not yet been digitized. This series preserves these titles of local significance and provides free online access to the full text.
Debuted in the fall of 2013, Geneseo Authors highlights the scholarship and creativity of SUNY Geneseo faculty and alumni. These books offer audio and interactive content in several accessible formats. These titles are also available free online and through Amazon.com.
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Roberta Harman Ford’s Old Elbows books are dedicated to her many grandchildren. This series is inspired by each of these children and their experiences. Ford believes that reading books about common but difficult situations will equip children to better handle them and facilitates communication between children, parents, and other caregivers.
To regard this early edition of AT&T’s National Telephone Directory as quaint, from our cell phone-crazy vantage 130 years later, is to discount the significance of the technology at the time. But still, it is pretty cute, starting with the iconic blue bell on the cover and the introductory General Information, which includes some very Read More …
This book contains 22 chapters with over 600 recipes (“receipts”) that are, for the most part, brief and to the point. Contributors’ names accompany most of the recipes, and in some cases different cooks have submitted recipes for the same dish, often with extreme variations. The “Miscellaneous” chapter offers important advice such as how to Read More …
One of the many publications issued by the Instructor Publishing Company (later called F.A. Owens Publishing Company), based in Dansville, New York, this small biography of Henry Clay was written as a text for history teachers, intended as a guide in their instruction of Henry Clay. Originally printed in 1899, what sets this biography apart Read More …
The Entrepreneurship in New York study is a joint venture of the SUNY Levin Institute, the Research Foundation of SUNY, and SUNY Geneseo. This study shows that New York now commands a larger share of national venture investment than in past studies. Although, within this picture a significant disconnect is revealed. New York’s strong performance Read More …
In her 1919 address to the Rochester Historical Association, H.E.B. Dow juxtaposes the city’s history of social tolerance and forward thinking with its religious conscience. This book is a must-read for those who wish to find out how anti-slavery, women’s suffrage, the temperance movement, the modern cult of spiritualists, anti-masonry, and even the raid on Read More …
One of twelve volumes in the True Stories of Great Americans series published by Instructor Publishing Co. in Dansville, N.Y., Daniel Webster : A Character Sketch appeared in 1899, less than fifty years after its subject’s death. The book chronicles the life of Daniel Webster from his humble beginnings in a pioneer family through the Read More …
Little church histories are so often more than that—they are snapshots of specific places in specific times, of course, but the “granular” view they offer of local communities provides insight into the larger historical milieu. They are microcosmic, and interesting to locals, genealogists, and historians alike. This centennial history of Livonia, NY’s First Presbyterian Church Read More …
Described as “a means of infinite entertainment and instruction for the children,” the two-volume Patterns for Posters and Mother Goose Pictures will delight budding artists, young and old. It offers familiar images from the tales we love that can be traced/copied, cut, colored and mounted onto various paper types and sizes, as recommended by the Read More …
Bernard Macfadden (born Bernarr McFadden) was nothing if not an interesting man. Considered to be a pioneer of physical culture as we know it, he was hailed by some and mocked by others. Detractors targeted him because of his tremendous ego, but no one could deny the man’s love for the human body. That love Read More …
Long before magnetic “paper” dolls and interactive walking, talking baby dolls, there was Bess Bruce Cleaveland’s Jointed Toys. Filled with patterns to be copied, enlarged, assembled, and decorated (whether in paper or wood), Cleaveland’s two-volume set offered potentially hours upon hours of make-believe fun for children in the early 20th century. The books provide explicit Read More …