Local History Sale - garage & moving sales - yard estate sale - craigslist (2024)

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Available as of 4/21/24

Local History Books
"Sketches of Rochester..." by Henry O'Reilly (HC, 1838, 1984 reprint, inc. map) - $20
"A Panoramic History of Rochester..." (1st Ed.) by B. McKelvey - $5
"A Panoramic History of Rochester..." (2nd Ed.) by B. McKelvey - $5
"To Serve the Community: A Celebration of Rochester General Hospital, 1847-1997" (HC) - $5
"Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester: 150 Years of Faith, Hope and Charity" (HC, 2017) - $10
"Old Views of Rochester and the Genesee Country" by Andrew Wolfe (HC, 1970) - $6
"Rochester Memories; Vol. 4" by D&C (HV, DJ, 2011) - $10
"In Celebration of Rochester" by Spinnard & Tanner (HC, DJ, 1988) - $4
"Rochester Public Library: 100 Years of Service, 1911-2011" by RPL (PB, 2011) - $5
"Rochester; A Pictorial History" by Ruth Rosenberg Naparsteck (HC; 1990) - $5
A Young People's History of Rochester" by Ruth Rosenberg Naparsteck (HC; 1989) - $5
"Capture Rochester (HC, DJ + pic DVD) by Democrat & Chronicle - $7
"Capture Rochester '09" (HC, DJ + pic DVD) by Democrat & Chronicle - $7
"Runnin' Crazy; A Portrait of the Genesee River" (HC, 1996) by Ruth Roseberg Naparsteck - $5
"Windows to Rochester: School for the Deaf Looks at Rochester 1881-1934" (PB, 1984) - $5
"Rochester; The Big Pictures" (HC, DJ, 1993) - $4
"Genesee Valley People, 1743- 1962" by Irene Beale (PB, 1983) - $4
"Genesee Valley Women 1745-1985" by Irene Beale (PB, 1985) - $4
"Genesee Valley Events, 1668-1986" by Irene Beale (PB, 1986) - $4
"The Rochester Savings Bank, 1831 - 1981" (PB, 1981) - $3
"St. Luke's Church, Genesee Falls (actually Rochester), 1817 - 1967 (HC, 1967) - $6
"A Living Church, The First Hundred Years of the Brick Church of Rochester" (HC, 1925) - $3
"Fred Costello: A Lifetime of Nightclubs and Ballparks" by Fred Costello (PB, 2010) - $6
"A Century of Engineering in Rochester, 1897-1997" by Rochester Engineering Society (HC, 1997) - $3
"For the Enrichment of Community Life" (Eastman School of Music) by Vincent A. Lenti (PB, 2004) - $5
"Landmarks of Rochester and Monroe County; A Guide to Neighborhoods and Villages" (HC, DJ, 1974) - $5
"The Rochester Saving Bank, 1831 - 1981" (paperback, 1981 - $3
"The Story of Kodak" (HC, 1990) by Douglas Collins - $5
"The University of Rochester, The First Hundred Years" (PB; 1950) - $4
"The Route of the Orange Limited -Rochester & Eastern Rwy." by Wm. Gordon (PB, pub. 1953, 1986 reprint) - $5
"The Story of the Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway, 1908 - 1919" by William Gordon (PB, 1963 - $15
Rochester Yacht Club "Rounding the Millennium Mark" (HC, DJ, 2000) - $8
"This Great Contrivance; The First Hundred Years of The Telephone In Rochester" (PB, 1979) - $7
"George Eastman; A Biography" by Elizabeth Brayer (HC, 1996) - $4
"A Celebration of 100 Years; Church of the Blessed Sacrament (PB, 2001) - $3
"100 Years" (Holy Ghost Parish) (PB, 1976) - $2
"Rochester's Story" by Evelyn L. Moore (HC, 1960, text book) - $4
"Rochestrivia: An Illuminating Look at Rochester" (1st Ed.) - $3
"Gone with the Breeze" (Roch. Fast Ferry) ( PB, 2006) by Larry Dickens - $3
"Rochester's Historic East Avenue District" (Images of America) by Michael Leavy - $5
"Rochester's Lakeside Resorts and Amusem*nt Parks" (Images of America) by Donovan Shilling - $5
"Rochester Neighborhoods" (Images of America) by Husted & Rosenberg-Naparsteck (PB, 2000) - $5
"Great Homes of Rochester" (HC, 2002) - $2
"Rochester Eats" by Karen Doyle (PB, 2007) - $2
"Endless Voices; The Story of Rochester Tel" by F.L. Howe (HC, 1992) - $4
"One Hundred Twenty Five Years in the Paper Business" (Alling & Cory, HC, 1944) - $5
"Erie Canal Legacy; Architectural Treasures of the Empire State" by Olenick & Reisem (HC, 2000) - $2
"The Fish Horn Alarm" by J. Sheldon Fisher (PB, 1994) - $2
"Manitou Beach Trolley Days, 1891-1925" by Wm. Gordon (PB, 1957) - $3
"The Towpath" (HC, 2nd printing) by Arch Merrill - $6
"The Ridge" (HC) by Arch Merrill - $5
"Land of the Senecas" (HC) by Arch Merrill - $5
"Slim Finger Beckon" (HC) by Arch Merrill - $5
"Slim Finger Beckon" (PB, reprint 1992) by Arch Merrill - $4
"Shadows on the Wall" (HC) by Arch Merrill - $5
"Rochester Sketchbook (PB, reprint 1986) - $4
"Greater Rochester; A Century of Progress" (Postcard History Series) - $5
"Eight Miles Along the Shore: An Illustrated History of Greece NY " (PB, 1st edition with creases) - $4
"Greece" (Images of America) by Shirley Husted (PB) - $5
"Henrietta" (Images of America) by Helen Elam (PB) - $5
"Pittsford Scrapbook; Vol. 3" (HC, 1980) - $5
"Penfield's Past: 1810-1960" by Katherine W. Thompson (HC, 1960 ed.) - $4
"A Resident's Recollections" (all 7 volumes) by Lloyd E. Klos - $20
"A Resident's Recollections" (Book 6) by Lloyd E. Klos (PB, 1993) - $5
"Penfield" (Images of America) by Martin M. Wamp (PB, 2004) - $5
"Gates" (Images of America) by Gates Historical Society - $5
"Around Auburn" (Images of America) (PB) - $5
"Around Lima" (Images of America) (PB) - $5
"Batavia" (Images of America) (PB) - $3
"Saving a Masterpiece; The Untold Story of Sonnenberg Gardens" by Wesley A. Gifford (PB, 1974) - $8
1996 Rochester Red Wings Yearbook + Last Game TICKET and roster - $15

"Geneva" (Images of America) (PB) - $5
1953 Geneva, NY City Directory (HC) - $15
1955 Geneva, NY City Directory (HC) - $15
1967 Geneva, NY City Directory (HC) - $15
1969 Geneva, NY City Directory (HC) - $15
1973 Geneva, NY City Directory (HC) - $10
1967 Canandaigua, NY City Directory (HC) - $10
1978 Canandaigua, NY City Directory (HC) - $10

OTHER BOOKS & BOOKLETS
"Up Front" by Bill Mauldin (HC, 1st Ed., 1945, Very Good) - $10
"Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman" by J. H. Kidd (HC, 1908, 1981 reprint) - $10
"Slaves in the Family" by Edward Ball (PB, 1999) - $2
"The Pictorial History of World War I" by G. D. Sheffield (HC, DJ, 1987) - $5
"Hindenburg, An Illustrated History" by Archbold & Marschall (HV, DJ, 1994) - $7
"The Source, A Guidebook of American Genealogy" by Szucs & Lueking (HC, 1996) - $5
"The American Drive-In" by Michael Witzel (HD, DJ, 1994) - $5
"Rolling Stone" magazine with Jerry Garcia cover (1995) - $5
"The Telephone Book" by H. M. Boettinger (HC, DJ, 1977) - $4
"The Beatles" by Bob Spitz (HC, DJ) - $5
"US West, The Saga of Wells Fargo" by Beebe & Clegg (HC, DJ, 1959) - $3
"Pioneers of Photography" by Aaron Scharf (HC, DJ, 1975) - $4
"The Birth of Photography" by Brian Coe (HC, DJ, 1976) - $4
"Aviation Pioneers" (Book with Postage Stamps mounted) (PB) - $2
"The New York State Story" (Elementary School Book) by Sesso & Feder (PB, 2002) - $2
"Mayflower" by Nathaniel Philbrick (PB, 2006) - $1
"The World's Greatest Battleships" by David Ross (HV, DJ, 2013) - $3
"The Historical Atlas of New York City" by Eric Homberger (PB, 1998) - $2
"Historic Old Fort Niagara" (PB, 1939) - $1.50
"Dutchess County: A Pictorial History" by John and Mary L. Jeanneney (1983, PB) - $7
"Nantucket in the Nineteenth Century" by Clay Lancaster (PB, 1979) - $2
"Jamestown (RI), A History of Naragansett Bay's Island Town" (PB, 2010) - $3
"Cornell & Ithaca in Postcards" (PB, 1986) - $3
"The Hotel Lafayette; Restoring Louise Bethune's Masterpiece..." (2014; PB) - $7
"The Three Stooges Scrapbook" (HC, DJ, 1982) - $5
"GM; The First 75 Years of Transportation Products" (HC, 1983 - $2
"Chester County (PA) Post Card Album II" (HC, 1984) - $25
"Orange County Welcomes Richard Nixon" (PB) - $8
"Ships of the Great Lakes" by James Barry (HC, 1996, Signed Limited Edition) - $15
"The History of the New York Central System" by Aaron E. Klein (HC, DJ, (1985) - $5
"New York Central's Mercury" by Richard J. Cook Sr. (PB, 1991) - $7
"Not Only Passengers" (Electric Railroads) (HC, DJ, 1992) by Roy Benedict & James McFarlane - $7
"Electric Railways of Wisconsin" (Comb binding, 1953) - $15
"Stories and History of the Erie Railroad - Rochester Division" by William R. Gordoe ((PB, 1965) - $15
"Picturesque Itinerary of The Hudson River" by J. Milbert (HC, 1968, translation of diary from ca. 1826) - $20
"Andrew Jackson Portrait of a President" by Marquis James (HC, 1937) - $8
"Great River; The Rio Grande" by Paul Horgan (2 Volumes; 1954; HC) - $8

Yearbooks
1942 "Witan" Yearbook - Charlotte H. S. - $2 (missing faculty pages)
1948 "Witan" Yearbook - Charlotte H. S. - $5
1950 "Witan" Yearbook - Charlotte H. S. - $5
June 1921 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School - $12
1942 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School, Rochester, NY - $5
1943 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School, Rochester, NY - $5
1953 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School, Rochester, NY - $5
1954 "Orient" Yearbook - East High School, Rochester, NY - $5
1956 "The Key" Yearbook - Franklin High School - $5
June 1924 "Jeffersonian" Yearbook - Jefferson Jr. H. S. - $3
1952 "The John Quill" Yearbook - John Marshall High School - $5
1955 "The John Quill" Yearbook - John Marshall High School - $5
1965 "The John Quill" Yearbook - John Marshall High School - $3 (some rippling on pages)
1939 "Surveyor" Yearbook - Washington H. S. (William Warfield senior picture) - $15

1959 "Clavus" - Allendale (private) School - $2
1957 "Crossroads" Yearbook - Brighton H. S. (Steve Alaimo senior pictures) - $8
1958 "Hiltorial" Yearbook - Hilton H. S. - $5
1959 "Hiltorial" Yearbook - Hilton H. S. - $5
1958 "Genoatk" Yearbook - Wheatland-Chili H. S. - $5

1946 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $4
1947 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1948 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1949 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1950 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1951 "Saga" Yearbook - SUNY Brockport - $5
1965 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
1966 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
1967 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5
1969 "Sigillum" Yearbook - Nazareth College - $5

Newspapers
12 issues of the “Rochester Daily Democrat” (1860s & 70s) - $50
One issue of “Rochester Daily Advertiser” (8/19/1851) – $5
7 issues of the “Rochester Daily Democrat and American” (1850s) - $30
One issue of “Rochester Daily Union & Advertiser” (9/27/1881) – $3
“Holiday Supplement 1881-2” - $1.
3 - Kennedy Assassination newspapers - $3
21 - "Rural New-York" (from 1800s) - $75
45 - "Rural New-York (from 1940 & 1950s) - $60
Bound volume of “Rochester Times-Union” for Nov. 1932. Each issue missing the comics page. Cheap at $35.

Ephemera
47 issues of 'The Cine-Kodak News' from 1930s and 1940s - $200
31 issues of Rochester TV magazines from 1952 & 1953 - $150
35 'Studio Light' magazines from Kodak for Professional Photographers - $140
29 'Kodak" Employee magazines from the 1930s & 1940s - $115
"Kodakery" (Amateur photo mag., random from 1920s) - $4 each
2 lots of Rochester Transit tickets (1 from 1930s & 1 from 1940s)
18 Rochester, Buffalo, Toronto theater programs - $7
8 GEVA Theatre Programs - $4
26 Broadway Playbills - $40
RG&E Recipe Booklet lot - $5
13 issues of "Gas and Electric News" (1920s & 1930s) - $20
6 Canadian Playbills - $4
Many 8x10 inch Hollywood photos - $3 each
First Day Covers from the 50s and 60s - $1 each
Other Ephemera - some individual starting at 25 cents; some in lots

Other
Bagged lots of old Photos - CDVs, Cabinet Cards & Snapshots
"You Pick" Snapshots - 50 cents each
About 4,000 Old Postcards (Rochester & elsewhere) - most @ $1
A few old Kodak cameras - $5 each