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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Collection on Mark Ellingson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArc-0694
Overview

Collection of records about RIT President Mark Ellingson.

Dates: 1939-1993
Found in: RIT Archives

Collection on Nathaniel Rochester

 Collection
Identifier: RITArc-0701
Overview

Records related to Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, founder of the city of Rochester, New York. These records found throughout the RIT Archives, have been pulled together by the staff to create this collection.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1934-1987
Found in: RIT Archives

Deaf Art/Deaf Artists collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITDSA-0039
Overview

Correspondence, slides, and clippings related to artists included in the deaf art/deaf artists website. The website includes over 40 deaf and hard of hearing artists.

Dates: circa 1985-2008
Found in: RIT Archives

Goudy biography, first draft; autograph manuscript and typescript, corrected , 1937

 File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Earl H. Emmons Collection spans the period from 1920 through 1945 and contains his writings and more than 280 glass plate negatives, both of which document his interest in and devotion to the American type designer Frederic W. Goudy. The collection is divided into three series: Writings, Maverick Press Publications, and Photographs and Negatives.

Dates: 1937

John D. Hromi collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RITArc-0643
Overview

Contains papers written by John Hromi, some course syllabi, proposal for a statistics lab, several Center for Quality and Applied Statistics business plans and long-range plans. There is also documentation of a Value Chain Alliances Conference held in 1991-1992 and biographical information about Mason Wescott.

Dates: 1985-2000
Found in: RIT Archives

Winifred Philleo McPherson diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: R0006627056]
Identifier: RITArc-0354
Overview

The Winifred Philleo McPherson diaries are photocopied pages of her original diaries from 1914-1917. This was the time period she attended the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (RAMI). Daily handwritten entries record the life of a young female student's life in the early 1900's. Also included is Mrs. McPherson's personal biography.

Dates: 1914-1917
Found in: RIT Archives