Exposition March and Two Step
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: Illustration: the official medallion logo of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition
creator: Hartenstine, W. Franklin
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: Denton, Cottier & Daniels
date: 1900
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

The Electric Century March and Two Step
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: "Respectfully dedicated to the Hon. W.I. Buchanan, Director General, Pan American Exposition 1901"
creator: Fanciulli, F.
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: W. Paris Chambers
date: 1901
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Don't Put Me Off at Buffalo Any More
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
creator: Jerome, William
creator: Schwartz, Jean
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
date: 1901
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Buffalo Means Business
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Songs and music
description: Written for the Exposition held in Buffalo in the summer of 1909. At head of title: "Dedicated to the Buffalo Midsummer Exposition".
creator: Cluxton, Walter H.
creator: Schultz, Herman E.
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: The Celebrity Music Co.
date: 1909
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

The Buffalo March
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: For the Piano, By Thomas Preston Brooke, conductor of the Chicago Marine Band. At head of title: "Dedicated to the Pan-American Exposition."
creator: Brooke, Thomas Preston
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: The John Church Company
date: 1901
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

At the Pan-I-Marry-Can
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: At head of title: A Matrimonial Opportunity
creator: Dillon, John
creator: Dillion, Harry
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: M. Witmark & Sons
date: 1901
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

At the Pan-American Fair in 1901; Two Boys in Blue
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: Issued with: Two Boys in Blue : dedicated to the 13th Reg't., U.S. Infantry
creator: Douglas, Theo.
creator: Koeppen, Erwin C.
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: Graser Bros., printers
date: 1899
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Late Nineteenth Century (1875-1900)

Are You a Buffalo?
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition--(1901:Buffalo, N.Y.) --Songs and music
description: At head of title: The craze of the century
creator: Moran, Edward P.
creator: Von Tilzer, Harrry
source: Pan-American Exposition Sheet Music Collection
publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
date: 1901
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Pan-American Exposition postcards and passes, 1901
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: McKinley, William, 1843-1901-Assassination.
description: A collection of postcards (21) advertising the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901, and of passes (8) issued by the Exposition for admission either for a day or for the entire season. Includes one printed silk bookmark commemorating the "attempted assassination" of President William McKinley on Sep. 6, 1901. RBR WNYO.P365 Postcard of Albright Art Gallery gift of Ron Gorkiewicz, 2001. Postcard of Ethnology Building from Matilda Sturtzer donation. Pass belonging to Willis O. Chapin donated by Susie Coit Williams, 2019.
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1901
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital collection copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. This collection or portions thereof are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, volume 13. Erie County Hospital Morgue Record, April 28, 1918 – [December, 1925], undated.
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Name of deceased, sex, age, weight, date of death, date of exam, clinical history, and description of body, organs, and diagnosis, and signature of doctor.
creator: Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1918 – [1925]
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950)

The Pan-American Exposition, Volume 3
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) -- Participation, Female.
description: Mounted newspaper clippings from local newspapers addressing a variety of topics concerning the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Special attention is paid to female participation, including the work of the Board of Women Managers appointed June 27, 1900 and disbanded November 10, 1901. Also contains information on how the Pan-Am was funded, how the midway was built, Dr. Ida Bender as chairman of the Committee on Education, the fainting room in the Women's Building, the advertising campaign for the Pan-Am, welcoming President McKinley, the assassination, and Czolgosz' arraignment.
source: Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks, Women's Participation
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1901
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

The Pan-American Exposition, Volume 2
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) -- Participation, Female.
description: Mounted newspaper clippings from local newspapers addressing a variety of topics concerning the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Special attention is paid to female participation, including the work of the Board of Women Managers appointed June 27, 1900 and disbanded November 10, 1901. Also contains information on how the Pan-Am was funded, how the midway was built, Dr. Ida Bender as chairman of the Committee on Education, the fainting room in the Women's Building, the advertising campaign for the Pan-Am, welcoming President McKinley, the assassination, and Czolgosz' arraignment.
source: Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks, Women's Participation
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1901
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

The Pan-American Exposition, Volume 1
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) -- Participation, Female.
description: Mounted newspaper clippings from local newspapers addressing a variety of topics concerning the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Special attention is paid to female participation, including the work of the Board of Women Managers appointed June 27, 1900 and disbanded November 10, 1901. Also contains information on how the Pan-Am was funded, how the midway was built, Dr. Ida Bender as chairman of the Committee on Education, the fainting room in the Women's Building, the advertising campaign for the Pan-Am, welcoming President McKinley, the assassination, and Czolgosz' arraignment.
source: Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks, Women's Participation
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1900 - 1901
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 12. Erie County Hospital Morgue Record, June 25, 1907 – [April 1918], undated
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Name of deceased, sex, age, weight, date of death, date of exam, clinical history, and description of body, organs, and diagnosis, and signature of doctor.
creator: Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1907 - [1918]
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 9. Hospital Register of the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1854 – Oct 1867
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Name, age, nativity, habits (temperate, intemperate), occupation, disease, time under treatment in days, stage of disease when admitted, date discharged, date cured, date died, remarks (notes on condition, cause of death, sent to Sisters of Charity Hospital, etc.). Common conditions included fevers, frost bite, syphilis, and pregnancy. Outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever are recorded in 1854.
creator: Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1854-1867
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Late Nineteenth Century (1850-1900)

Souvenir of the Pan-American Exposition Negro Exhibit
subject: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
subject: African Americans
description: Official publications of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 describe only two sideshow-esque displays on people of African descent, "The Old Plantation" and "Darkest Africa." There is no mention of a very different third exhibit, which aimed to be a testament to African American achievement and progress in the years following emancipation. This "Negro Exhibit" appears to haven been curated by James A. Ross, an African American newspaper publisher in Buffalo. This souvenir pamphlet contains photographs, a descriptive essay, a partial list of Buffalo's African American residents, advertisements from local businesses, and bibliography of African American publications. The cover of the pamphlet states "Compliments of Globe & Freeman," a periodical published by Ross. The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library holds the only known surviving copy of this pamphlet, which was discovered pasted into a Pan-American Exposition scrapbook in the Rare Book Room. For more information on this pamphlet, see The Forgotten "Negro Exhibit" publication created by the Library in 2001.
creator: Globe & Freeman
creator: Ross, James A.
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1901
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
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relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 11. [Consent of Autopsy, Erie County Hospital, January 9, 1898 - Dec 1903; September 2, 1910 - June 15, 1919]
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Statements signed by the nearest living relative or friend of the deceased giving consent to perform an autopsy. Includes date, name of consenter, name of deceased, relationship to deceased, and signature of witness(es).
creator: Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1898 –1919
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 3. Register of Children’s Names in the Pauper Asylum, November 1841-September 1852.
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Date received, name, age, names of parents, nativity (place of birth/ethnicity), how discharged & to whom. Each October 1st, the children currently residing in the Alms House were listed as “carried forward” into the new record keeping year. Parents’ names are rarely recorded. Some children are discharged to family members; others are bound out to local families. Deaths by illness are noted, recording outbreaks of cholera in 1845 and 1849-1850, and measles in 1849-1850. In chronological order, no index. Note: The first section of this volume lists children in the Alms House who were sent to the Orphan Asylum. The first page of 1841 has the heading of “Register of Orphaned Children with Mrs. Orissa Healy.” Healy was the director of the Buffalo Orphan Asylum. Some later years indicate “To Buffalo Orphan Asylum” in the column indicating how a child was discharged. One of the last pages has a short listed titled “A list of names of children taken from Erie Co. Poor House to Buffalo City Orphan Asylum, Dec 19, 1849.”
creator: Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1841-1852
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1850)

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 1. Register of Persons received at the Erie County Poor House from January 8, 1829 to August 5, 1844
subject: Almshouses--New York (State)--Erie County--History
subject: Institutional care--New York (State)--Erie County--History
description: Includes children and adults. Name, age, place of nativity, town/county pauper or vagrant, date of commitment, by whom committed (can be a city sexton, justice of the peace, or doctor), town sent from, date committed, and date discharged. Discharge notes include “carried forward” (continued to reside at the Poor House in the next recorded year) and “At Mrs. Heely’s” (sent to Buffalo Orphan Asylum, managed by Orissa Healy). Some years include notes in the nativity column indicating intemperance. Some years include a count of the information recorded (i.e. number of citizens, foreigners, males, females, town sent from). In chronological order, no index.
creator: Erie County Poor House (Buffalo, N.Y.)
source: Erie County Poor House Ledgers
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1829-1844
contributor: Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2020 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1850)

The Right to Know
subject: Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
subject: Radioactive waste sites -- New York (State)
subject: Hazardous substances -- Law and legislation.
subject: Industrial safety -- Law and legislation.
subject: Chemicals -- Safety measures
subject: Environmental Pollutants -- Poisoning.
subject: Olin Corporation
subject: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
subject: Hooker Chemical Corporation
subject: Lead poisoning
subject: Donner-Hanna Coke Corporation
subject: Republic Steel Corporation
subject: Union Carbide Corporation
subject: Chemicals--Fires and fire prevention
description: RIGHT TO KNOW LAWS In 1980, demands by Western New York union workers dealing with toxic chemicals reached a crescendo. They insisted on knowing the nature of the substances to which they were exposed, and the extent of that exposure on the job. Some were suffering from ailments they attributed to toxic exposure. As a result of their efforts and similar demands that were being made around the country, “Right to Know” laws were passed locally, statewide, and nationally, granting workers and citizens access to chemical information critical to their health and safety. The following series of WIVB-TV reports by Rich Newberg documents this critical period of awakening to environmental hazards. They were aired on WIVB-TV in 1980 and ’81. The same issues are surfacing again today. The incoming Biden administration is pledging to make environmental justice a top priority. The opening comment is from Lois Gibbs. In 1980 Ms. Gibbs and the Love Canal Homeowners Association successfully organized the relocation of more than 700 families whose homes were in the toxic Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York. Their efforts led to the creation of the nation’s Superfund, providing relief for toxic neighborhoods around the country. Her comments are provided courtesy of Harvard University, where she was interviewed as part of the “Voices From the Field Leadership Series” on April 10, 2014. [Total Running Time of Reports: 1:00:26] 1. ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST LOIS GIBBS REFLECTS BRIEFLY ON THE RIGHT TO KNOW “Voices from the Field” (series) Harvard University School of Public Health April 10, 2014 “Right to know actually started in the workplace, and then the workers moved it to the city level, then the county level, and then the state level. And then these various states did it, and the industry is going crazy because they’re filling out so many forms. And they said, we need a federal policy. This is insane.” (Runs: :14) 2. WORKERS RIGHT TO KNOW LAW [SERIES] “A Safe Place to Wo…
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1980-2014
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Gibbs, Lois (Environmental Activist)
contributor: Harvard University (School of Public Health)
contributor: Pillittere, Joseph (New York State Assemblyman)
contributor: Spatorico, Sal (Chemical Worker)
contributor: Sambuchi, Art (United Steel Workers Local 2603 President)
contributor: Lukasik, Stanley (Retired Steel Worker)
contributor: Reilly, Jeanne (Technical Engineers Local 57 President)
contributor: New York Public Interest Research Group
rights: Copyright held by WIVB-TV. Access to this digital version provided by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Videos or images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of WIVB-TV and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image