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Johnny Antonelli: A Baseball Memoir, Enhanced Ebook

by Johnny Antonelli, Scott Pitoniak
Price: $12.99

One of only 17 major-league players never to have spent a single day in the minors, Johnny Antonelli was a highly coveted phenom who signed a “bonus baby” contract with the Boston Braves for $52,000 a few days after graduating from Rochester’s Jefferson High School in 1948.  It wasn’t until six years later, when he was traded to the New York Giants, that the stylish left-hander began realizing the potential the scouts had seen in him.

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Publisher: RIT Press (August, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-68-3

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Rochester Panorama

by Frank Cost
Price: $75.00

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Inspired by a 1906 panoramic photo of Rochester, New York, Frank Cost captured numerous panoramas of modern-day Rochester over a ten-year period (2002–2011) using a variety of digital technologies. The images were all created by stitching multiple frames together to create the panorama. This oversized book contains over twenty of these stunning images.  

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Publisher: Fossil Press / RIT Press (April, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-65-2
Binding: Spiral
Pages: 56
Illustrations: 21
Size: 22 x 7.5 in.
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Johnny Antonelli: A Baseball Memoir

by Johnny Antonelli, Scott Pitoniak
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Publisher: RIT Press (May, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-61-4
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 132
Illustrations: 23 black-and-white, 3 color
Size: 6 x 9 in.
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The Life and Letters of Kate Gleason (Hardcover)

by Janis F. Gleason
Price: $24.95

Susan B. Anthony called her the ideal business woman of whom she had dreamed fifty years earlier. Playwright Eugene O’Neill saw her as the symbol of greed and emasculating ambition. Kate Gleason, groundbreaking nineteenth-century industrialist, mechanical engineer, and real estate developer, was her own best invention. The truth of her dynamic life, in all of its complexity, is revealed in Janis Gleason’s biography of this legendary American woman.

 

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Publisher: RIT Press (November, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-50-8
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Size: 6 x 9 in.
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The Life and Letters of Kate Gleason (Softcover)

by Janis F. Gleason
Price: $17.95

Susan B. Anthony called her the ideal business woman of whom she had dreamed fifty years earlier. Playwright Eugene O’Neill saw her as the symbol of greed and emasculating ambition. Kate Gleason, groundbreaking nineteenth-century industrialist, mechanical engineer, and real estate developer, was her own best invention. The truth of her dynamic life, in all of its complexity, is revealed in Janis Gleason’s biography of this legendary American woman.

 

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Publisher: RIT Press (November, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-47-8
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 204
Size: 6 x 9 in.
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Jewel of the Sports World

by Scott Pitoniak
Price: $24.95

Sports icons Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mantle, Arnold Palmer, Jim Brown, Sandy Koufax and Joe Namath were among the athletes who wore this belt made from genuine alligator skin featuring a five-pound, solid gold buckle, encrusted with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. For a quarter of a century, from 1950 to 1976, the S. Rae Hickok Belt was the most coveted and respected individual award in all of sports. It was given annually to the professional athlete of the year at an award banquet held in Rochester, N.Y. which became known as “the Academy Awards of Sports.”

 

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Publisher: RIT Press (October, 2010)
ISBN-10: 978-1-933360-45-4
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 152
Illustrations: 51 black-and-white
Size: 10 x 7 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.6

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Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity

edited by Eugenia Victoria Ellis, Andrea G. Reithmayr
Price: $49.95

Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. Bragdon practiced architecture in Rochester, New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station, was demolished in the 1960s-70s, the First Universalist Church, the Bevier Memorial Building, the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto, and nearly 100 residences remain today. 

 

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Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (April, 2010)
ISBN-10: 978-1-933360-43-0
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 212 Color and 36 Black and White images.
Size: 8.5 in x 11.25 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.8

Table of contents

Acknowledgements                                                                 ix

 

Notes on the Contributors                                                        xi

 

Introduction
   Eugenia Victoria Ellis                                                            xv

 

                                       Essays

 

1. Claude Bragdon Reads Authur Schopenhauer:                     3
    “Architecture is in space alone…”
     Christina Malathouni

 

2. Claude Bragdon and Pure Design                                          9
     Marie Frank

 

3. Claude Bragdon: A Pre-Modern Architect                              15
     Jean France

 

4. Western New York’s Theosophical Enlightener                      21
     Joscelyn Godwin

 

5. Claude Bragdon: Academic Architect and the                        25
     American Renaissance
     Richard Guy Wilson

 

6. Architecture and the “Spirit” of Democracy:                            35
     Variations on a Theme in the Writings of Louis
     Sullivan, Claude Brgadon, and Frank Lloyd Wright
     Joan Ockman

 

7. Transitional Transmedia Modernism                                       45
     Jonathan Massey

 

8. Claude Bragdon’s Prehensile Eye and                                   53
     Preconditioned Images
     Mary Nixon

 

9. On Turning the Corner to the Fourth Dimension:                    57
    Claude Bragdon’s Isometric Perspective
    Paul Emmons

 

10. Skewed Stagecraft: Claude Bragdon’s Isometric                  65
       Theatrics
       Marcia Feuerstein

 

11. Claude Bragdon, the Fourth Dimension and                          73
       Modern Art in Cultural Context

 

                                    Exhibition Catalogue

 

Introduction to the Exhibition                                                       89
       Andrea G. Reithmayer

 

Catalogue                                                                                   91

 

Timeline of the Life of Claude Bragdon                                      195

 

Bibliography of the Writings of Claude Bragdon                         201

 

Index                                                                                           213


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The Old Bank

by James C. Duffus
Price: $19.95

This book chronicles the dynamic life span of an important Rochester institution, a mutual savings bank, that by definition, was owned by its depositors and operated for their benefit. At one time in the U.S., there were more than 4,000 savings banks most having started in the 1800s. By 1990, many of these had dissolved, since they had achieved what they were created to do, and eventually fell prey to the changing and frequently unstable economic times. It also chronicles the contribution of some of the Presidents and Trustees to the Rochester community.

 

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Publisher: RIT Press (February, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-41-6
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 108
Illustrations: Black and White
Size: 6 in. x 9 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.4

Table of contents

Dedication 7
Preface 8
Acknowledgments 10
Chapter One: Setting the Stage 13
Chapter Two: The Erie Canal and the Flour City Years 15
Chapter Three: The Flower City and the Civil War Years 31
Chapter Four: The Maturing Years: 44 The “City of Many Industries” Becomes the “Home of Quality Products”
Chapter Five: Rochester’s Golden Era 56
Chapter Six: The Depression Years and World War II 63
Chapter Seven: The War Ends but Trouble Looms 69
Chapter Eight: Trouble Arrives 82
Chapter Nine: Concluding Thoughts 88
Timeline 90
Bibliography 95
Sources 97
Trustees 98
Index 101

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“Long-time RSB trustee Jim Duffus has gathered the lineage of RSB’s ‘movers and shakers’ in this authoritative book. Readers will enjoy a unique view of an interesting part of Rochester’s history through his tireless efforts.”
Bruce B. Bates
Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC
and a celebrated community leader

“The author writes with deep feeling for the great institution and the people who were the Rochester Savings Bank. He dramatizes its life and death and the 152 years in between.”
David T. Kearns
Former CEO of Xerox Corporation and
Deputy Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education


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God's Country

by Phyllis Pittman Kitt
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Publisher: RIT Press (August, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-37-9
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Illustrations: 127 color
Size: 9 x 12 in
Shipping Weight: 2.8

Table of contents

Foreword by Stuart Bolger, 9
Preface, 11
Acknowledgments, 12
Introduction, 15
On Architecture, by Frank Grosso, 17
Location Index, 18
GOD¹S COUNTRY: HISTORIC CHURCHES AND CHAPELS OF THE GENESEE VALLEY, 22
Bibliography, 236

Index of Churches by Town
First Baptist Church, Albion
First Free Methodist Church, Albion
First Free Methodist Church, Albion
Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion
First United Presbyterian Church, Attica
First Presbyterian Church, Avon
Zion Episcopal Church, Avon
Bethany Center Baptist Church and Maple Lawn Cemetery
First Congregational Church, Bloomfield
St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, Bloomfield
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Bloomfield
United Methodist Church of Bloomfield
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Branchport
First Presbyterian Church of Brockport
Lakeview Cemetery Chapel, Brockport
First Presbyterian Church of Caledonia
United Presbyterian Stone Church, Caledonia
First Congregational Church, Canandaigua
First United Methodist Church, Canandaigua
St. Brendan’s Christian Fellowship Chapel, Canandaigua
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Canandaigua
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Canandaigua
Christian Community Church, Charlotte
The Cobblestone Church, Childs
First Presbyterian Church of Chili
Union Congregational United Church of Christ, Churchville
Clarkson Community Church
St. Felix Catholic Church, Clifton Springs
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Clifton Springs
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Dansville
First Baptist Church, Fairport
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Fairport
Raymond Memorial Baptist Church, Fairport
Garland Methodist Church
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Geneseo
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Geneseo
Faith Community Church, Geneva
First Baptist Church, Geneva
The Presbyterian Church in Geneva
St. John’s Chapel, Geneva
St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, Geneva
Trinity Church, Geneva
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Holley
Hillside Cemetery Chapel, Holley-Byron
Honeoye Congregational Church
First Presbyterian Church, Honeoye Falls
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Honeoye Falls
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Leicester
Union Presbyterian Church, Leicester
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Leroy
St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Leroy
Lima Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church of Livonia
Grace Episcopal Church, Lyons
Mendon Presbyterian Church
Middlesex United Methodist Church
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Mount Morris
St. Patrick’s Church, Mount Morris
First United Presbyterian Church of Mumford
Genesee Country Village and Museum, Brooks Grove Methodist Church, Mumford
First Baptist Church of Naples
Trinity Federated Church, Naples
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Newark
Ogden Baptist Church
Ogden Presbyterian Church
Ossian Presbyterian Church
East Palmyra Presbyterian Church
Western Presbyterian Church, Palmyra
Zion Episcopal Church, Palmyra
South Perinton United Methodist Church
Brick Presbyterian Church, Perry
Christ Church of Pittsford
First Presbyterian Church. Pittsford
Port Gibson United Methodist Church
Potter Baptist Church
First Congregational Church of Riga
Roanoke Community Church
Christ Church, Rochester
First Universalist Church, Rochester
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, All Souls Chapel, Rochester
Mount Hope Cemetery Chapels, Rochester
Our Lady of Victory, Rochester
St. Joseph’s Park, Rochester
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Rochester
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Rochester
St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Rochester
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rochester
Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester
Grace Episcopal Church, Scottsville
St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Scottsville
Union Presbyterian Church, Scottsville
The Little Church, Seneca
Trinity Episcopal Church, Seneca Falls
United Methodist Church, Sodus Point
First Congregational Church of Spencerport
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Spencerport
Evangelical Wesleyan Church, Stanley
First Presbyterian Church, Victor
Vine Valley Methodist Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Webster
Webster Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church of Middlebury, Wyoming
Yatesville Methodist Church
United Presbyterian Church, York
York Baptist Church

Press

"Phyllis Kitt’s God’s Country is a landscape of church halls, chapels, bell towers, and steeples. Her photographs and informed, stylish text enlighten and delight us as she guides us through her God’s world. No architectural detail escapes her notice. We in the twenty-first century are in debt to her, as we are to the devout congregations, ministers, building committees, and architects, whether known or unknown, who bequeathed us such a wide-ranging panoply of architectural treasures.” —Stuart Bolger, Director Emeritus Genesee Country Village and Museum


Greeting Cards: Schoen Place Big Shot

Price: $7.00

Continuing the annual night-time "painting with light" photography project, Schoen Place, Pittsford New York was chosen to be RIT’s Big Shot No. 24. Schoen Place is located on the Erie Canal in Pittsford New York. Referred to by some as the Eighth Wonder of the World, the canal was completed in 1825 and links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River. When constructed it included 18 aqueducts to carry the canal over ravines and rivers, and 83 locks, with a rise of 568 feet from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.

Size: 4.25 x 6 in. each
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