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.
The title page of the Y.M.C.A. Cook Book states that “every receipt has been tested,” presumably by committee members Mrs. George Benson, Mrs. Avery Andrews, and Mrs. G. H. Simonds. The book contains almost 500 recipes divided into nineteen chapters, each described (in most cases) in under four sentences, covering everything from basic baking powder Read More …
This pictorial of Geneseo Normal School scenes is an attractive, thorough “snap shot” of the school as it existed at nearly 50 years old. Included are photographs taken from within and without “Old Main,” then still the school’s sole building (albeit with all its added wings and annexes) — different scenes and activities within the Read More …
Published by the H.H. Warner Company, a noted Rochester-based safe (and later patent medicine) manufacturing company, this large cookbook is teeming with hundreds of recipes for everything ranging from mustard pickles to pepper mangoes and venison pie. Apart from the recipes themselves, the extensive descriptions of culinary technique and numerous illustrations of cooking equipment present Read More …
Collected for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Perry, N.Y. by a group of eight women under the direction of a Mrs. W.H. McClelland, this cookbook is chock-full of brief (but good) recipes for a variety of dishes. Each section is prefaced with a culinary aphorism, such as Eggs (“In thy concoction there Read More …
Featuring numerous photographs and copper engravings, Rochester Through a Kodak is both a literal and figurative snapshot of the Flower City during its heyday in the late 1800s. Many of Rochester’s signature locations are pictured within its pages—from High Falls and the Genesee River Gorge, to Kodak Park and the University of Rochester campus. There’s a lot Read More …
If you’ve ever wished you could create a meal like your grandmother used to make, then the Genesee County Cook Book is the resource for you. Compiled and published in 1918 by the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Corfu, New York, the cook book includes recipes for soups, fish, meats, relishes, entrees, Read More …
Contributed Recipes, like so many older, locally produced cookbooks, offers readers much more than just recipes. There’s all that rich cultural (and commercial) history, too, such as the admonishment to “Use F. W. Potter & Co.’s Gilt Edge Flour for Pastry” that runs across the footer of each page, and the back-cover description of Shredded Read More …
Compiled and published by the American Brewing Company of Rochester, N.Y., Recipes of Quality covers courses, foods and preparations representative of early 20th century American tastes. (No surprise, then, that all the recipes are deemed best “when you augment these preparations with the zest contained in every bottle of Liberty Beer or Seneca Ale”!) The Read More …
This engaging memoir records the recollections of a grandson of the times he spent with a kind, wise, generous, and very patient grandfather. Focused on events in James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.’s, life as he related them to his grandson, Stuart Symington, Jr., weaves this story of his grandfather’s political career and private life against a Read More …
This charming cookbook full of “receipts” was privately printed by Miss Mumford in 1905. Unlike many recipe books from the time period, there is a lot of detail about ingredients and amounts. The author states in a note that she felt the recipes were worth passing down through the generations. There are some gems here, Read More …