The goal of this paper is to investigate the motivations of the patrons behind four of Buffalo, New York’s early monuments. These are the Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1882), the Lincoln, The Emancipator Monument (1902), the Red Jacket Monument (1890), and the McKinley Monument (1907). Each section contains historical context regarding the time period, critical events that influenced the monument, comparisons to similar monuments in the United States, and the narratives of the monument’s dedication and ceremonies. When grouped together, the historical context provided for each monument ess...

About a pair of Buffalo magicians

About the Academy of Music

Arthur Goldberg

Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Discusses the emerging museum trends of the 21st century, using the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York as a short case study to explore how a small museum addresses the paradigm shift.

Ancient Athens, Renaissance-era Florence, and Germany’s Bauhaus community that practiced between the two World Wars are all examples of what Barton Kunstler refers to as a hothouse. He defines a hothouse as an area where creativity flourishes wildly and magnificently, producing results that neither nature nor the usual round of human activity could ever anticipate. Out of each of Kunstler’s notable hothouse communities came extraordinary achievements and he theorizes that a hothouse is created out of a relatively rare confluence of forces – 36 factors within four dimensions, to be exact. In...

David Gray

Courtesy of Internet Archive

A thesis about a landmark publication in Buffalo's visual history, by Annie Schentag

A comic operetta based on the Pan-American Exposition, online in full text

This organization is the predecessor of the Buffalo Public Library, which eventually became the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. 1837, 1861, and 1871 are online.

Describes itself as "A family magazine of literature, science, art, morality, and general intelligence," published in Buffalo starting ca. 1837.