Collections and Library Resources

The groundbreaking RMSC Online Catalog makes collections come alive!

Engage your students with LOCAL primary sources. This innovative

presents images of objects coupled with text and photographs of these objects being used.

Try it...
1. Click here.

2. Type in "cap of Rattlesnake Pete" as a search term.

Note how the results display an image of Rattlesnake Pete's cap from the RMSC collection, along with photos of Rattleshake Pete wearing the cap.

3. Click on any of the titles in the list to access more infromation about Pete and his Rochester-related activities.

Schuyler C. Townson Library

Access photographs and primary source documents in our library.

Call ahead for an appointment to work with our archivist: (585)271-4552 x315.

Primary source documents and curriculum-related materials are available in: Science and Nature; Anthropology and Native Americans; and Regional History, especially 19th Century Rochester.