Erie Canal Images: From Manuscripts and Special Collections at the NYS Library
Several Buffalo images here
David Plowden Photographs of Buffalo, New York, 1980s-1990s
Grain elevators, waterfront, industry, railroads
Harbor Construction: Barge Canal at Buffalo
NY State Archives
Niagara River and Falls from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario : a series of one hundred and fifty-three original etchings, 1886
Amos Sangster. A portfolio of 50 folio and 103 vignette etchings..
Six manuscript maps showing places on Lake Ontario in southern Canada, the Niagara River and along the St. Lawence River, 1832
6 hand drawn maps & notes
Niagara River from Lake to Lake, 1886-1889
Etchings and text by Amos Sangster, all 10 folios
Aerial views of Buffalo, ca. 1919
14 images from the Archives of Ontario
Barge Canal Construction: Western Division, ca. 1918
US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District Image Gallery
These pictures are in the public domain
Times Beach Cottage photographs, ca. 1915
On the Sea Wall, also called The Beaches.
Vue du Lac Erié, Prise à Buffalo (View of Lake Erie, as Seen from Buffalo) , 1821
Signed in stone lower left: "Charlotte del."; titled in stone lower center: "Vue du Lac Erié/ Prise à Buffalo" by Charlotte Bonaparte, daughter of Joseph, the king of Spain. Shows the lighthouse of 1818.
Buffalo Lighthouse
Photos from 1911-1913 courtesy of the National Archives