Comptoir National d'escompte de Paris
description: Poster Number: 854
creator: Leroux, Jules Marie Auguste
source: World War I Posters Collection
publisher: Joseph Charles : Paris (Printer)
date: 1918
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2017 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
type: Still image
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Comradeship!
description: Poster Number: 188
creator: Bailey, Albert
source: World War I Posters Collection
publisher: Haycocks Ltd. (Printer)
date: 1920
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2017 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
type: Still image
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Concentration of low income families by census tract with incomes not exceeding 80% of Buffalo SMSA median
subject: Erie County (N.Y.) -- Maps
description: Throughout the mid-20th century, Buffalo and Erie County experienced a significant population decline as aerospace, electronic, and steel manufacturing all but vanished. This map reflects the economic struggles faced by Erie County residents.
creator: Erie County Department of Planning
publisher: Erie County, NY
date: 1978
contributor: Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)
language: eng
type: Text

Concerted action or isolation : which is the road to peace?
subject: Peace
subject: Security, International
description: American Communist leader Earl Browder argued that collective security with democratic nations was essential to halt fascist aggression. He rejected isolationism as an illusion that would lead to a larger global conflict, instead advocating for coordinated economic pressures against aggressor states.
creator: Browder, Earl, 1891-1973
publisher: International Publishers
date: 1938
contributor: Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
language: eng
type: Text
identifier: RBR U.S. 1938.B8

Congestion of the brain in cholera : its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment
subject: Cholera--Epidemiology.
subject: Cholera--New York (State)--Buffalo.
creator: Newman, James M., -1860
publisher: Thomas & Lathrops, printers
date: 1854
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 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: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
identifier: RBR WNYO 1854.N4

Consistory, Buffalo, N.Y. [1]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Freemasonry.
subject: Freemasonry--New York (State)--History.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
description: Picture postcard depicting the Buffalo consistory of the Scottish Rite Freemasons.
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Consistory, Buffalo, N.Y. [2]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Freemasonry.
subject: Freemasonry--New York (State)--History.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
description: Picture postcard depicting the Buffalo consistory of the Scottish Rite Freemasons, written out to George Spears.
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians
subject: Seneca
description: The creation of the 1848 Seneca Constitution was born from a crisis of survival. It was triggered by decades of aggressive land theft by the U.S. federal government, the Ogden Land Company, and internal political instability that forced a revolutionary change in tribal government. Not all members of the Seneca Nation adopted this Constitution, however. The Tonawanda Seneca Nation maintains the traditional hereditary chief structure to the present.
creator: Seneca Nation of New York
publisher: William Wooddy & son
date: 1848
contributor: Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
language: eng
type: Text
identifier: RBR U.S.1848.s36

Corpus Christi Church and Priest House, Buffalo, N.Y.
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Catholic churches.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Religious organizations--United States.
subject: Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.
description: Picture postcard of the Corpus Christi church and priests house.
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Country Club Buffalo Morning Express- Seeing Buffalo Series. [1]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Photographic postcards.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
subject: Buffalo Country Club.
description: Photographic postcard of the Country Club in Buffalo, N.Y., with a view of people playing Polo.
creator: Buffalo Morning Express
publisher: Buffalo Morning Express (Publisher of Orginal)
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Country Club Buffalo Morning Express- Seeing Buffalo Series. [2]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Photographic postcards.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
subject: Buffalo Country Club.
description: Photographic postcard of the Country Club in Buffalo, N.Y., with a view of people playing Polo.
creator: Buffalo Morning Express
publisher: Buffalo Morning Express (Publisher of Orginal)
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Country Club Buffalo Morning Express- Seeing Buffalo Series. [3]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Photographic postcards.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
subject: Buffalo Country Club.
description: Photographic postcard of the Country Club in Buffalo, N.Y., with a view of people playing Polo.
creator: Buffalo Morning Express
publisher: Buffalo Morning Express (Publisher of Orginal)
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Country Club, Buffalo, N.Y. [1]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Photographic postcards.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
subject: Buffalo Country Club.
description: Photographic postcard of the Country Club in Buffalo, N.Y.
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Country Club, Buffalo, N.Y. [2]
subject: Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.
subject: Photographic postcards.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)--Societies and clubs.
subject: Buffalo Country Club.
description: Photographic postcard of the Country Club in Buffalo, N.Y., with a message written out to Mrs. Alive Ltale.
publisher: Buffalo and & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of Digital)
date: ????-11-30
contributor: [illegible] (author)
rights: Digital image copyright 2025 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
type: Still Image

Cradle of Hope
subject: Carpenter's Hand
subject: Developmentally disabled--New York (State)--Buffalo
description: Cradle of hope features the progress of twelve developmentally disabled men who belong to Carpenter's Hand. They help build baby cradles and then personally deliver them to needy mothers in the greater Buffalo area. This television special touches on the history of institutionalization in New York State and the changes that took place after the scandal of Willowbrook was exposed by TV muckraking journalist Geraldo Rivera.
description: Originally aired on WIVB-TV.
creator: Newberg, Rich (Producer, Writer, Host)
creator: Vetter, Tom (Producer, Photographer, Editor)
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 2000-12-25
contributor: Musial, Chris (Executive Producer)
contributor: Baxter, Tim (On-line Editor)
contributor: Mombrea, John (On-line Editor)
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Kaufman, Ken (Composer of original score)
contributor: Newberg, Rich (Lyricist and Composer of lullaby _Let Me Cradle Your Dreams_)
contributor: Sunday, Bonnie (Lyricist)
contributor: Moriarty, Kathy (Musical Performer)
contributor: Giovenco, Joseph (Field Assistant -- Ukraine)
contributor: Buscaglia, Jennifer (Research Assistant)
contributor: Dadey, Kelly (Director)
contributor: Foster, Joseph D. (Tape Operator)
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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image

Credit Lyonnais
description: Poster Number: 853
creator: Faivre, Jules-Abel
source: World War I Posters Collection
publisher: Devambez : Paris (Printer)
date: [1914-1918]
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2017 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
type: Still image
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Crédit Lyonnais. Souscrivez au 4e. Emprunt national.
description: Poster Number: 809
creator: Faivre, Jules-Abel
source: World War I Posters Collection
publisher: Crédit Lyonnais
publisher: Devambez : Paris (Printer)
date: [1914-1918]
contributor: Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2017 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
type: Still image
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Crisis at West Valley 1 : Overview
subject: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- New York (State) -- West Valley
subject: Radioactive waste sites -- New York (State) -- West Valley
subject: Reactor fuel reprocessing -- New York (State) -- West Valley
description: This series of reports deals with the challenges involved in cleaning up one of Western New York’s most toxic hot spots, located in West Valley, about thirty miles south of Buffalo. Initial projections for the cleanup of radioactive waste pegged costs at $235 million dollars. The project, it was thought, would take seventeen years to complete. By 2018 the amount spent totaled $2.3 billion dollars. The full cleanup price tag could be in the range of $10 billion dollars, according to earlier estimates by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2020, forty years after the site was declared a National Demonstration Project, efforts were still underway to dismantle and remove the remaining contaminated buildings still standing on the site. Other efforts were focused on either dismantling and removing radioactive waste material from burial and storage areas or making them more secure. Environmental watchdog groups continue to raise serious questions about public safety and health. WIVB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Buffalo, closely covered the West Valley story and presented many reports that focused on the grassroots efforts that helped shape the massive cleanup project. The movement grew in intensity as New York State and the federal government considered proposals to accept more nuclear waste at the site. This overview is the first of five groups of television news reports, videos, and films documenting the political, economic, and social processes that led to a forty-year cleanup effort that is still in progress. The multi-billion-dollar undertaking continues to serve as a national demonstration project. The reports and summaries that follow are compiled by WIVB-TV senior correspondent (ret.) Rich Newberg. He played a major role in covering initial events as they unfolded in the early 1980s. Overview Summary: (1979 - 2020) 1. The Nuclear Waste Challenge CBS report by Robert Schackne lays out the challenge: 1979 “Some 600,000 gallons of lethally radioactive liquid waste that must…
creator: Newberg, Rich (Reporter)
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1979 - 2020
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (WIVB-TV Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Vetter, Tom (Editor)
contributor: Schackne, Robert (CBS News Correspondent)
contributor: Roberts, John (WIS-TV Columbia, South Carolina)
contributor: Curtis, Bill (CBS News Morning Anchor)
contributor: Costantini, Allen (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Newberg, Rich (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Lauder, Jay (WIVB-TV Photographer)
contributor: D’Arrigo, Diane (Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
contributor: Resnikoff, Marvin (Nuclear Physicist)
contributor: Hameister, Joanne (The Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes)
contributor: Vaughan, Ray (The Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes)
contributor: Shepp, Amanda (Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives, SUNY Fredonia)
contributor: Pillittere, Joe (Communications Manager for West Valley contractor)
contributor: Bower, Brian (DOE Director for West Valley Demonstration Project)
contributor: Bembia, Paul (NYSERDA Director at West Valley)
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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image

Crisis at West Valley 2 : the Community Responds
subject: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- New York (State) -- West Valley
subject: Radioactive waste sites -- New York (State)
subject: Reactor fuel reprocessing -- New York (State) -- West Valley
description: 1. This video file begins with a film entitled “The Story of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing.” It was produced by Nuclear Fuel Services and describes the operation of the plant at West Valley. It describes the benefits of “unlocking the power of the atom” which “promises almost unlimited energy sources.” The plant’s mission is to reclaim the uranium and plutonium inside spent nuclear fuel rods used by atomic power plants, researchers, and test reactors throughout the United States. The material is shipped to West Valley in “ruggedly built trucks and special railroad cars.” The plant is capable of the processing of up to one ton a day of spent fuel elements. (Runs: 11 minutes) 2. Reporter John Beard’s story of a recommendation by the New York State Department of Energy that the plant reopen as a storage facility for more spent nuclear fuel. Beard’s report includes a warning by environmentalists who say that “West Valley is a time bomb threatening to leak radioactive liquid into the soil and eventually into the waterways of Western New York.” Some local residents are in favor of the reopening, saying it would be beneficial for tax purposes and jobs. Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, a nuclear physicist and staff scientist to the Radioactive Waste Campaign, emerges as a major voice of opposition. Those against reopening the facility as a repository call for a ban against spent fuel moving through Cattaraugus County. Congressman Stanley Lundine (D-Jamestown) says it there is “a remote possibility that the site could reopen as a federal nuclear waste storage facility. Lundine points out there is limited storage space and “seismic or environmental problems.” Researchers have determined that West Valley sits in a seismic fault zone. (Runs: 3:05) 3. Reporter Rich Newberg’s story on more safety questions raised by area environmentalists. A former lab supervisor at Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) says there had been problems with the crane that moved the radioactive rods in the pool of water that …
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1980
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Newberg, Rich (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Beard, John (Reporter)
contributor: Petrick, Bob (Reporter)
contributor: D’Arrigo, Diane (Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
contributor: Resnikoff, Marvin (Nuclear Physicist)
contributor: Ameister, Joanne (The Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes)
contributor: Vaughan, Ray (The Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes)
contributor: Shepp, Amanda (Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives, SUNY Fredonia)
rights: opyright 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image

Crisis at West Valley 3 : Working Toward a Solution
subject: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- New York (State) -- West Valley
subject: Radioactive waste sites -- New York (State) -- West Valley
subject: Reactor fuel reprocessing -- New York (State) -- West Valley
description: 1. WIVB-TV reporter Bob Petrick’s interview with Rep. Stan Lundine of Jamestown. The lawmaker says three important committees in the House of Representatives have approved some sort of West Valley project. Now one bill has to be crafted that will be passed by the House and then the Senate. (Runs: 2:01) 2. Shots of artwork and tee shirts representing the cause of environmentalists who are opposed to reopening West Valley for more nuclear waste. One graphic by those who are against nuclear power and weapons states, “JOIN US…FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN." A tee shirt worn by an environmental activist reads, “DON’T DUMP ON US” “MAKE THE POLLUTERS PAY.” Another tee shirt put out by the Sierra Club Radioactive Waste Campaign reads, “YOU CAN’T RUN FROM RADIOACTIVE WASTES!” The visuals are followed by reporter Sandy White’s interview with Judith McDonnell, a volunteer who works in the Sierra Club’s Radioactive Waste Campaign. She says thirty people are going to Washington D.C. to lobby against the McCormick bill, which calls for the siting of four high level nuclear waste repositories by the end of 1984. West Valley and the Finger Lakes region are under consideration. The bill calls for funding to come from the federal government and not the nuclear industry. In fighting against the bill, McDonnell says there are no provisions for local community input on where the repositories are placed. She claims it is a federal “preemption of state’s rights.” She adds the West Valley site has a history of leakage and sits on “an earthquake fault…” She says the site should “be cleaned up and closed and that nothing else should be dumped there at all.” McDonnell says two weeks earlier, nineteen people went to the nation’s capital and lobbied more than seventy congressmen. The new lobbying effort seeks to reach at least one hundred twenty congressional offices. She says, “We feel that the government should take more time, there should be more study put into the siting of a high level repo…
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1982
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Newberg, Rich (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Rice, Marie (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Petrick, Bob (Reporter)
contributor: Curtis, Bill (CBS News Reporter)
contributor: D’Arrigo, Diane (Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
contributor: Resnikoff, Marvin (Nuclear Physicist)
contributor: Hameister, Joanne (The Coalition on West Valley Nuclear Wastes)
contributor: Shepp, Amanda (Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives, SUNY Fredonia)
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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image