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Former Buffalo grain scoopers (clockwise from left: Fred Brill, Pat Needham, Sam Kolodziej, unnamed friend, Jack Driscol, Bob Roberts) at the Apollo Family Restaurant, 3387 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY, where the old pals gathered weekly for…

Don Dodd displays General Mills and grain related memorabilia at his home in January 2020.

Inside Duende Bar, once used as an administrative office for flour mill operators, Childs Street (�Silo City Row�), Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, February 2020

Inside Duende Bar, once used as an administrative office for flour mill operators, Childs Street (�Silo City Row�), Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, February 2020.

Lynda Schneekloth, University at Buffalo architecture professor emeritus and grain elevator preservationist, inside the former Perot Malt House, Childs Street, Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, February 2020

Annual report produced by the Board of Police for 1898. Includes narrative reports of the Police Superintendent, Police Surgeon, Patrol Boat, Bureau of Identification, Electrical Department, and Police Matrons. Includes precinct and staffing…

“Girls didn't go by the waterfront.” Most women and girls who lived in Buffalo's First Ward -- the waterfront community at the heart of Buffalo's once-pulsating grain industry -- never went close to the waterfront or worked among the grain…

"My father said, ‘Here’s a bottle of whiskey. Go tell that guy I need about a three-second spill.'" With a dad nicknamed Fearless Freddie who worked in and around the grain elevators throughout his life, Joel and Bruce Carter were indoctrinated into…

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.

Birth records from the City of Buffalo, primarily covering the mid to late 19th and early 20th century.