Elmwood Avenue Complex
subject: World War (1914-1918)
subject: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
subject: Curtiss-Wright Corporation
subject: Aircraft industry--United States--History.
description: The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (later Curtiss-Wright Corporation) was based in Hammondsport and Bath, NY until the rise in military orders required the expansion of manufacturing operations into the city of Buffalo, along with its headquarters. By the start of World War I, the company was the preeminent manufacturer of airplanes in the United States, with three factories in Buffalo and 18,000 employees. This photo album documents the building of the Elmwood Avenue Complex in Buffalo, NY. The photographs are dated from 8-18-1917 to 10-2-1917.
description: Photographs belong to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. Permission to digitize and display granted to the B&ECPL for the Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I Exhibit. Additional information about the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum can be found at: https://www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org
source: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
contributor: Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
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)

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, Buffalo Office & Lab Facilities, 1917-1919
subject: World War (1914-1918)
subject: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
subject: Curtiss-Wright Corporation
subject: Aircraft industry--United States--History.
description: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (later Curtiss-Wright Corporation) was based in Hammondsport and Bath, NY until the rise in military orders required the expansion of manufacturing operations into the city of Buffalo, along with its headquarters. By the start of World War I, the company was the preeminent manufacturer of airplanes in the United States, with three factories in Buffalo and 18,000 employees.
description: Photographs belong to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. Permission to digitize and display granted to the B&ECPL for the Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I Exhibit. Additional information about the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum can be found at: https://www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org
source: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
contributor: Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
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)

Mother Hubbard
description: Mother Hubbard​, re-issued by John Lane Company in 1913, was written and illustrated by Walter Crane [1845-1915]. His version of this nursery rhyme ​was first published in 1873. Crane's irreverent treatment of the classic Mother Hubbard plays nicely with his humorous illustrations done in arts and crafts style.
creator: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1915
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Stories from Hans Andersen
subject: Fairy tales--Denmark Children's stories, Danish--Translations into English Children's stories, Danish Dulac, Edmund--illustrator.
description: The Emperor's New Clothes, is a selection from Stories of Hans Andersen published in New York and London in 1911. This book contains twenty eight tipped in color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac [1882-1953]. His fantastic imagery lends a dream-like feel to the many books he illustrated.
creator: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1911
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

A Fairy Garland; Being Fairy Tales from the Old French
subject: Dulac, Edmund--1882-1953.
description: The Story of Fortunata, is a selection from A Fairy Garland. This signed, limited edition of A Fairy Garland; Being Fairy Tales from the Old French that is illustrated by Edmund Dulac [1882-1953] and was published in 1928 was gifted to the Buffalo & Erie County Library by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Warner. Dulac’s dreamy, painterly, 12 color plates grace the eight fairy tales the book contains by Charles Perrault, Mme. d’Aulnoy and Count Anthony Hamilton.
creator: Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, Illustrator
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1928]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Mid-Twentieth Century (1925-1975)

The Fables of Aesop, and others. With designs on wood, by Thomas Bewick.
subject: Fables
subject: Illustrated books--Extra-illustrated
subject: Bewick, Thomas,--1753-1828
description: Two selected stories from The Fables of Aesop. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick [1759-1828], the lauded naturalist illustrator, this 1818 edition of The Fables of Aesop ​is specially bound with a title page and 50 plates from an earlier 1793 London edition. Bewick's intricate wood engravings show his great skill and his love for the subjects. In fact, he illustrated various editions Aesop’s fables in his career.
creator: Aesop
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1818
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1850)

Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book
subject: Alphabet--Juvenile literature Alphabet rhymes
description: American artist and cartoonist John Barton Gruelle was the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Edward F. Ellis worked at the Buffalo Public Library at one time and, as collector, he amassed a vast collection of ABC books over the years. When he died in 1983, approximately 434 ABC books were books donated to the public library. Since 1984, the Ellis ABC Collection has grown to more than 700 American and International books from 1793 to the present.
creator: Gruelle, Johnny, 1880-1938
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1925]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Puss in Boots
subject: Puss in Boots (Tale)--Juvenile literature. Fairy tales.
description: This 1920 edition of Charles Perrault classic fairy tales, Puss in Boots, was beautifully illustrated by Julia Daniels and published in Rochester, New York, by George Sully & Co.
creator: Daniels, Julia, illustrator
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1920]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

An Animal ABC
subject: Alphabet books
description: English book illustrator Harry B Neilson’s characters in the turn of the century Animal ABC book appear naturally undressed in the black and white pages but are wearing human clothes in all of the color illustrations. Edward F. Ellis worked at the Buffalo Public Library at one time and, as collector, he amassed a vast collection of ABC books over the years. When he died in 1983, approximately 434 ABC books were books donated to the public library. Since 1984, the Ellis ABC Collection has grown to more than 700 American and International books from 1793 to the present.
creator: Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861- , illustrator.
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1900?]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Walter Crane's Absurd ABC
subject: Alphabet--Juvenile literature. Alphabet rhymes.
description: Victorian era children’s book illustrator Walter Crane entertains young readers with silly illustrations and verse in his Absurd ABC. Edward F. Ellis worked at the Buffalo Public Library at one time and, as collector, he amassed a vast collection of ABC books over the years. When he died in 1983, approximately 434 ABC books were books donated to the public library. Since 1984, the Ellis ABC Collection has grown to more than 700 American and International books from 1793 to the present.
creator: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1874?]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Late Nineteenth Century (1875-1900)

A walk around Hamburg at the turn of the century : a slide presentation
subject: Hamburg (N.Y. : Town)--History.
description: This is a video recreation of a slide presentation and narration by historian Elton R. Heath at the Hamburg Public Library in Hamburg, NY in 1978. Heath shares his memories and photographs of Hamburg residents, homes, streets, schools, and businesses circa 1902-1908, the time when he was a teenager. A few years later, the Hamburg Historical Society published a written version of his talk that includes some information and images not provided in this video: Heath, Elton R. Around old Hamburg village at the turn of the century: A guided tour. [Hamburg, N.Y.] : Hamburg Historical Society, [1982]. Click here to view the typed transcript of the audio narration. Click here to view the map of Hamburg. *Please note: some images from Heath's slides could not be verified and may be misidentified. When in doubt, we used the slides in their original order. If you have any information that can identify the buildings featured in the video, please contact the Grosvenor Room.
creator: Heath, Elton R.
source: A walk around Hamburg at the turn of the century : a slide presentation
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: March 10, 1978
contributor: Hamburg Public Library (Hamburg, NY) (repository)
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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Denslow's Jack and the Bean-stalk
subject: Fairy tales
description: William W. Denslow [1856-1915] illustrated his 1903 Jack and the Bean-stalk in his uniquely charming style that anyone familiar with the 1900 edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz will recognize. Denslow created illustrations for newspapers, magazines, posters and some books before becoming the first artist engaged by Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft in East Aurora in the late 1890s.
creator: Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: [1903]
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

A for Apple
subject: Alphabet--Juvenile literature
description: Edward F. Ellis worked at the Buffalo Public Library at one time and, as collector, he amassed a vast collection of ABC books over the years. When he died in 1983, approximately 434 ABC books were books donated to the public library. Since 1984, the Ellis ABC Collection has grown to more than 700 American and International books from 1793 to the present.
source: Children's Books
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 1900
contributor: Rare Book 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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: Image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)

Crisis at West Valley 5 : Present and Future Concerns
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: The following videos show progress made in cleaning up the West Valley radioactive waste site. They include the solidification of the high level liquid waste that had been in underground tanks and the demolition of contaminated buildings. They also include the on-site storage of high and low level radioactive waste and the removal of some of this waste from the site. Since the mid-1970s citizen watchdog groups including experts in the field of nuclear waste have expressed concern about the health, safety and environmental issues involved in the storage and management of nuclear waste at West Valley as well as the subsequent efforts to clean up the site. In 2020, decisions still must be made on how much nuclear waste can be left in trenches, holes, tanks and the below-ground portion of the building that once reprocessed spent nuclear fuel rods. Watchdog groups continue to express concerns that the site itself is on rapidly eroding plateaus surrounded by creeks that drain through the Seneca Nation of Indians into Lake Erie. They warn that there is a potential for this erosion to reach the underground nuclear waste and release long-lasting dangerous radioactive materials into the Great Lakes. VIDEOS 1. Huge steel lined concrete casks provide on-site storage of high level radioactive glass logs converted from liquid waste at West Valley. 56 casks holding the high level waste are stored above ground on the property of the West Valley Demonstration Project site. They sit on a reinforced concrete slab until they can be shipped out to a national nuclear waste repository yet to be named. The casks each hold five canisters containing the glass logs which will remain highly radioactive for thousands of years. Each cask weights close to 90 tons. The high level waste needed to be removed from the plant at West Valley so building demolition could take place. [“HLW Progress Video” produced by DOE contractor CH2M HILL BWXT WEST VALLEY, LLC. ; 7/7/2016 ; Runs: 1:58] 2. Transporting …
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: Newberg, Rich (WIVB-TV 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: 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 4 : Cleanup Plans Take Shape
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. Rich Newberg’s story documenting top U.S. energy officials assuring West Valley residents that the massive cleanup effort will be safely conducted with citizen input. The federal government takes possession of the high level nuclear waste burial grounds and the facilities there in about five days. A citizens panel led by Peter Skinner is aware of “the technological difficulties of the project, the public sensitivity of the facility, and the hazards of the undertaking…” Westinghouse representative Ray Maison promises to keep the community “fully informed of what we’re doing and what we plan to do every step of the way.” However, dairy farmer Emil Zimmerman questions what would happen if the milk from his cows is contaminated with strontium 90. He is concerned about the livelihood of the people in the area. He wants to also know about liability should there be an accident. He says this issue should be considered as a priority as cleanup plans progress. There is also concern about the Reagan administration’s plans to possibly dissolve the U.S. Department of Energy. The department’s representative,Sheldon Meyers, says if there is “dismantlement,” he believes that “the various functions in the department which are mandated by law or are necessary to do, will be either distributed to other agencies or a new independent agency will be set up.” (Runs: 3:33) 2. Reporter Rich Newberg questions Jim Duckworth, who ran the Nuclear Fuel Services plant for Getty Oil. Getty purchased the reprocessing facility from W.R. Grace Company in 1969. The first shipments of spent nuclear fuel rods at arrived in 1965, with reprocessing beginning 1966. A steel storage tank containing 600,000 gallons of high level liquid radioactive must be emptied and converted into a solidified, glass like substance for permanent storage. During an informational briefing featuring a scale model of the tank, Duckworth explains how the original safety system for high level radioactive waste was compromised. …
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1981 - 1982
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Newberg, Rich (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Lauder, Jay (WIVB-TV News Photographer)
contributor: Costantini, Allen (WIVB-TV Reporter)
contributor: Jablonski, Emil (WIVB-T Reporter)
contributor: Roberts, John (WIS-TV 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: Vaughan, Ray (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

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

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 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

Remembering Van Miller : "The Voice of the Buffalo Bills"
subject: Miller, Van, 1907-2015.
subject: Buffalo Bills (Football team) -- History.
subject: Radio broadcasting of sports -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- History
description: Van Miller (1927 - 2015) is remembered as one of the greatest local broadcasters of the National Football League. As “The Voice of the Buffalo Bills” for thirty-seven years, Miller reflected the unyielding enthusiasm of the Buffalo fans who reveled in their team’s four consecutive Super Bowl appearances. Born in Dunkirk, New York, south of Buffalo, Miller’s career echoed his calls in the booth, building to a crescendo from humble beginnings as a summer replacement announcer at WBEN-TV (now WIVB-TV) in the mid-1950s to the station’s legendary sports anchor. His upbeat delivery was punctuated by humor and wit, which became his trademarks on the air. He retired from WIVB in 1998 after a forty-three year run. In 2004, Van Miller became the first local play-by-play announcer to be honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Ten years later his name was added to the Buffalo Bills Wall of Fame at the team’s home stadium in Orchard Park, New York. During his final interview with WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg, Miller reflected on his broadcast career in Buffalo, saying, “ That was a great ride. I was the luckiest man in the world.” Miller coined many phrases and catchwords that added to his signature style during Bills games. During the final days of his life, when he was barely able to speak, Van Miller mustered enough energy to raise his hands from his bedsheets and utter a parting word to his Channel 4 colleagues who came to say their final goodbye. It was his word describing the euphoria when the Bills would score a winning touchdown. “Fan-damonium!” Van’s longtime WIVB-TV colleagues who were at his bedside, anchor Jacquie Walker, senior correspondent Rich Newberg, and meteorologist Don Paul, believe Miller wanted Buffalo fans to know they were still number one on his mind.
creator: Newberg, Rich (Writer, Reporter)
creator: Swenson, Scott (Photographer, Editor)
source: Rich Newberg Reports Collection
publisher: WIVB (Television Station: Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 2015-20-07
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
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

Real estate and builders' monthly : September 1887 ; Volume 3, No. 12
subject: Real estate business -- Periodicals
subject: Real property -- Periodicals
subject: Real property -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
subject: Real estate business -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
creator: Haas & Klein (Publisher of original)
source: Real Estate and Builders' Monthly
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
date: 09-1887
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.
relation: Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: Late Nineteenth Century (1875-1900)