Rochester History Vol. 83, No. 1 (Fall 2025)

A Paradise for Reptiles

No Words Posters is a collection of nearly 200 posters by over 100 designers from around the worl...

An examination of the narrative and pictorial qualities of comics and how these help comics to co...

The first monograph on the work of a photographic pioneer in the field of color nature photograph...

Crafting Democracy

A Symbiotic Partnership

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington puts Senator George P. McLean's victory for birds in the ...

Regarding Frames explores the ways that literary comics engage readers in the mutual construction...

This book offers offers insightful and informative research about Simon de Colines, one of the gr...

The philosophy of Epicurus (c. 341-271 B.C.), has been a quietly pervasive influence for more tha...

From My Seat on the Aisle chronicles more than 30 years of Jack Garner's experience as a national...

Lucretius (c. 99 BCE-c. 55 BCE) is the author of De Rerum Natura, a work which tries to explain a...

The internationally recognized RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences presents the catalogu...

Fifteen stories written by deaf hard of hearing individuals who have had cochlear implants are to...

One of only 17 major-league players never to have spent a single day in the minors, Johnny Antone...

Epictetus (c. 50-c. 120 CE) was born a slave. His master, Epaphroditus, allowed him to attend the...

Becoming Visible brings together scholarly discussions of visibility and illness, photographs of ...

'Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly,'--a quote from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables--aptly describes the ...

Through daily portraits, this five-year project charts the physical and emotional changes of two ...

Wood type in myriad designs--from stark condensed sans serifs to bizarre ornamental scripts--crea...

An ongoing nighttime community photography project now 35 years and counting, the RIT Big Shot an...

Susan B. Anthony called her the ideal business woman of whom she had dreamed fifty years earlier....

As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practi...

Susan B. Anthony called her the ideal business woman of whom she had dreamed fifty years earlier....

Both Sides of the Table: Photography Portfolio Reviews Do's and Don'ts is the first book of its k...

This succinct and thoughtful essay is the text of a talk commissioned for a symposium entitled Th...

This book chronicles the dynamic life span of an important Rochester institution, a mutual saving...

Deciduous trees provide a beautiful progression of leaf colours as the seasons pass. Munsell Tree...

With a vintage typewriter in hand, Reza Aliabadi (who works under the pseudonym RZLBD) revives th...

Rochester History is a peer-reviewed biannual journal produced by the Central Library of Rocheste...

Ellie Rose McCullagh (she her) is a fourth-year student in SOIS. Ellie's Booky-Book is a mini-mem...

Comics studies scholars engaging comparative mythology tend to limit critical approaches to super...

Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator,...

The evolution of Eastman Kodak Company's pension investment program from the inception of its pen...

Ismar David made his career over a broad spectrum of applied art. His work is exciting, not merel...

Using ground-breaking advances in printing technology and a bold approach to graphic design, the ...

Orion DiLorenzo (it its they them) is a fifth-year student studying Computer Science. Orion's Boo...

Sepia frontispiece of Cary, 14 reproductions, some in color; 4 tip-ins. typography by Jerry Kelly...

Rochester History is a peer-reviewed biannual journal produced by the Central Library of Rocheste...

In June 2000 the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection hosted over 400 guests for a highly successful ...

'Whose Streets? Our Streets!' New York City 1980-2000 showcases the work of 37 independent photoj...

When you put people first, you win. When you operate by the highest principles, you'll see the re...

When you put people first, you win. When you operate by the highest principles, you'll see the re...

The internationally recognized RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences presents the catalogu...

Withstanding childhood poverty in a migrant farming family and an illness in 1943 at age 11 that ...

Reptiles are intrinsic to the mystique of the Galápagos Islands, and A Paradise for Reptiles: Liz...

Withstanding childhood poverty in a migrant farming family and an illness in 1943 at age 11 that ...