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Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute -- Students

 Organization

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute lantern slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArc-0242
Overview

Collection of lantern slides regarding the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, a precursor to Rochester Institute of Technology. Most images depict students in various departments and administrative documents.

Dates: circa 1905-1933
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute mechanical drawing tools

 Collection — Carton 1
Identifier: RITArc-0294
Overview

Set of mechanical drawing tools, most likely from a student of the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (a precursor of Rochester Institute of Technology). The tools were made in Germany.

Dates: circa 1900-1920
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute stadium blanket and pennant

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006627131]
Identifier: RITArc-0368
Overview

Navy blue stadium blanket with "Mechanics Institute" embroidery and a navy blue pennant with gray "MECHANICS" on it and the RAMI seal.

Dates: circa 1920-1943
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute sweater and vest

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006629019]
Identifier: RITArc-0370
Overview

Collection contains a knit sweater and vest with gray "M" embroidery.

Dates: circa 1930-1940
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute textile swatches

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArc-0298
Overview

Set of textile cards created by Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute students.

Dates: 1915-1917
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum & Mechanics Institute ashtray

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006628300]
Identifier: RITArc-0337
Overview

The Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute ashtray was donated by 1943 graduate Ann Gustin Zetterlind. It is made of a copper colored metal, is circular in shape and has the Mechanics Institute (MI) insignia stamped in the bottom.

Dates: circa 1940's
Found in: RIT Archives

Rochester Athenaeum & Mechanics Institute drafting set

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006627964]
Identifier: RITArc-0266
Overview

Set of twelve drafting tools in a case embossed with "Rochester Athenaeum Mechanics Institute."

Dates: circa 1891-1944
Found in: RIT Archives

Ruth Thomas photographs and transparencies

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RITArc-0245
Overview

Twenty photos and transparencies by Ruth Thomas. Thomas was a student at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, a precursor to Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dates: circa 1940-1942
Found in: RIT Archives

Unpublished manuscript by Mark Ellingson

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006628537]
Identifier: RITArc-0378
Overview

Unpublished manuscript by Mark Ellingson on the history of the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, the objectives of the institute, information on programs and courses offered and institutional policies through 1937.

Dates: 1936-1937
Found in: RIT Archives

Walter W. Taylor collection

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: R0006627119]
Identifier: RITArc-0244
Overview

The Walter W. Taylor collection consists of three items donated by the son of RIT alumni Walter Taylor, Paul Taylor in 2010. The items include a banner, Mechanical Arts drawings and a photo album. These items were collected by Walter W. Taylor when he was a student at the Mechanics Institute around 1905.

Dates: circa 1905-1910
Found in: RIT Archives

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Women college students -- New York (State) -- Rochester 6
Home economics -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester 5
Art in universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- Rochester 4
Art students -- New York (State) -- Rochester 4
Artifacts (object genre) 4
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Artists -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- 20th century 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
College students -- New York (State) -- Rochester 4
Books 3
Correspondence 3
Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester 2
College sports -- New York (State) -- Rochester 2
Commencement ceremonies -- New York (State) -- Rochester 2
Directories 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
Lecture notes 2
Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- History 2
Administrative records 1
Application forms 1
Aprons (protective wear) 1
Ashtrays 1
Assemblages (sculpture) 1
Bags (generic containers) 1
Banners 1
Biographies 1
Blankets (coverings) 1
Booklets 1
Buttons (information artifacts) 1
Calendars 1
Campus planning -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Certificates 1
Clothing 1
College campuses -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
College yearbooks -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Color transparencies 1
Cooking -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Deaf -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Deaf college students 1
Diaries 1
Dormitories -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Dormitory life -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Drafting, drawing and writing equipment 1
Drawing instruments -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Electrical engineering -- Study and teaching 1
Etchings (prints) 1
Greek letter societies -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- History 1
Hats 1
Illustration (process) 1
Instructional materials 1
Jewelry 1
Lantern slides 1
Lapel pins 1
Linocuts (prints) 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Mechanical drawing 1
Mechanical drawing -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Men -- Housing -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Oral histories 1
Painters -- United States 1
Pamphlets 1
Pennants 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographers -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Photography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Photography -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Photography of animals 1
Printing -- History 1
Programs (documents) 1
Promotional materials 1
Publications 1
Recipes 1
Renderings (drawings) 1
Reports 1
Research notes 1
Ribbon (material) 1
Sculptors 1
Sculpture, American -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- 20th century 1
Student activities -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Student drawings 1
Student life 1
Sweaters 1
Telephone -- Directory 1
Textile cards 1
Textile fabrics 1
Uniforms 1
Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- Catalogs 1
Vests (garments) 1
Veterans -- Services for -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Watercolors (paintings) 1
Women -- Housing -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Women artists -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- 20th century 1
Women photographers -- New York (State) -- Rochester 1
Woodcuts (prints) 1
brochures 1
negatives (photographs) 1
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