Browse Collections (20 total)

World War I Posters Collection

Posters were a very effective means of messaging throughout World War I. They were pasted onto walls and billboards everywhere to reach the widest…

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Spilling Grain: Audio Stories from the People of Buffalo's Grain Elevators, 2019-2020

Spilling Grain is an oral history project created by Kate Kaye, Buffalo native and journalist, to chronicle the grain industry in Buffalo, as well as…

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Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks have long been an important part of the historical record. The digital scrapbooks presented here provide a glimpse of the wide variety of…

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Rich Newberg Reports Collection

This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and…

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Real Estate and Builders Monthly

"A practical journal devoted to improved and unimproved property in city and county."

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Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection

The Pan-American Sheet Music collection consists of 25 song titles written for the 1901 Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and one title written for the…

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Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks, Women's Participation

Consists of 3 vols. of mounted newspaper clippings from local newspapers addressing a variety of topics concerning the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in…

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Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks, President William McKinley

Consists of 2 vols. of mounted newspaper clippings from Buffalo newspapers, with index, chronicling President McKinley's visit to the 1901…

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Manuscripts from the early medieval period to the beginning of the Renaissance.

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Maps and Atlases

Maps, atlases, and more from the Grosvenor Room and Rare Book Room.

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Historic Buffalo Theater and Music Programs

Fifty selected programs from the Grosvenor Room’s performing arts collections, featuring theatre, music, and dance productions. These programs are a…

Contributors: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL

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Erie County Poor House Ledgers

The Erie County Poorhouse of Buffalo, NY and succeeding institutions known as the Erie County Alms House, Erie County Hospital, and Erie County Home…

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Elma News

The Elma News, the “The Voice of Elma,” published information and stories about the people, organizations and activities in the Town of Elma from 1940…

Contributors: Elma Public Library

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Diaries & journals

Personal diaries and journals provide a unique glimpse into the private lives of their authors. Diaries and journals often contain passages describing…

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Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (later Curtiss-Wright Corporation) was based in Hammondsport and Bath, NY until the rise in military orders…

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City of Buffalo Birth Records

The City of Buffalo birth records collection comprises four microfilm rolls, collecting records from the former New York State Board of Health and the…

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Children's Books

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library’s Children's Book Collection reflects the long history of a public library that appreciates and collects many…

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Buffalo Public School Buildings, 1908

This collection consists of photographs of Buffalo Public School buildings taken in March 1908.  These 83 black & white platinum prints were…

Contributors: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL

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Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority publications

The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority was established by the Common Council on April 3rd, 1934, with the mission of managing low-income housing in…

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Ann Montgomery's Little Harlem

The Little Harlem Club/Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Buffalo was owned and operated by Ann Montgomery from the 1930s through early 1960s, during which…

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