Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative | Finding Aids at Your Fingertips
Two dozen finding aids/inventories for manuscript collections in our Library are now online here.
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Community facilities in a redevelopment area: A study and proposal for the Ellicott District in Buffalo, New York, 1955
Masters thesis by Buffalo architect Robert Traynham Coles, courtesy of MIT
Old Maps Online
The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world.
Buffalo as Seen Through its Postcards
A presentation for Explore Buffalo about the history of Buffalo, NY using postcards.
Leather Bindings: Conservation Research on Tanning
By Laura McNulty, Holly Herro and Kristi Wright ~ Have you noticed that books bound before the mid-19th century are in better condition than those bound after the mid-19th century? Seemingly simple questions have an interesting way of developing into larger, more complex questions.
Freethought Trail - New York
A collection of 131 marked and unmarked sites important to the history of radical social reform in western and central New York State.
House Plan Books
Almost 250 catalogs of house plans, cottage plans, farmhouse plans, barn plans, commercial storefront plans, school plans, church plans, even prison plans, etc. from the golden age of American architecture. All online in full text courtesy of Google Books.
Plan of the Buffalo State Asylum: A downloadable architectural floor plan of the Richardson complex from 1872.
Discover Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride and his moral model of mental illness treatment. His belief that physical environment affects mental health had a significant impact on the design of the Richardson Olmsted Campus. The first patients were admitted in 1880. From 1900 to 1945, an increase in patients led to additional buildings and structures. From 1974 to 2006, the campus is largely abandoned. In the associated lesson plan, to be used with the program Reimagining a Buffalo Landmark, students will analyze the Kirkbride Plan using multiple sources, and understand Kirkbride’s impact on mental health as well as the creation of the Richardson Olmsted Campus.
Better World Books Services
Where to donate your unwanted books
Great Lakes Vessels
The Metzler Vessel Database contains information on Great Lakes vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries, including boats with a Buffalo & Black Rock connection.
Buffalo’s bygone buildings, then and now – The Buffalo News
Since its founding in 1862, the Buffalo History Museum has been a faithful steward of our region’s rich heritage, helping to share and preserve the stories of t…
A Guide to Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition
This story map was created with the Story Map Journal application in ArcGIS Online. Created by UB in conjunction with The Buffalo History Museum and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Has a great then and now map of the grounds.
Some things in and about Buffalo; a souvenir... |
Courtesy of HathiTrust Digital Library. Has some very good photographs of Buffalo.
Robert Morris and the Holland Purchase
Full text of the book that explains the role of Robert Morris in the purchase of the land that eventually passed to the Holland Land Company.
Joseph Ellicott and stories of the Holland Purchase
Originally published in 1936, this book for young readers is now online in full text courtesy of HathiTrust.
Holland Land Company Records — FamilySearch.org
All 200 rolls of Holland Land Company records on microfilm are digitized, courtesy of FamilySearch.org. Scroll down to the tiny camera icons on the right. You will need to sign up for a free account.
Buffalo History Museum Card file of death records from news clippings, 1812-1985 — FamilySearch.org
These films have been digitized courtesy of FamilySeach.org
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
1873-1924 online in full text courtesy of HathiTrust.org
Fulton Search
Alternative search interface for FultonHistory
Archives of the Sisters of St. Francis
The province archives contains the records of the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity from their establishment in Buffalo, N.Y., as a mission of the German house, through their growth and development in the U.S. The records include central administrative, financial, and personnel records of the sisters in the U.S. 1874-1939; in the eastern/Holy Name Province 1939-present.
Student Directories | Alumni Publications | University at Buffalo School of Law
These directories of the students in each incoming law school class were distributed starting in 1992.
Why You Are Not Finding Your Ancestors in the New York State Death Indexes – Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy & Research Blog
For anyone with New York state ancestors, the 2017 release of the New York State Death Indexes on Internet Archive were an absolute gift from the genealogy gods. Before Reclaim the Records won their FOIA request for the state-wide index dating from 1880-1956, researchers would visit one of three locations in New York, show a…
Buffalo Law Review | Law Journals | University at Buffalo School of Law
The Buffalo Law Review, published since 1951, publishes 5 issues per year, with each issue containing articles from scholars, practitioners, and judges. All issues are now online.
Religious Centers of Buffalo & Erie County, New York
This map of churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. was created at Canisius College with the Story Map Series application in ArcGIS Online.
1840 Buffalo Creek Census, notebook 1...
Fully scanned. From the Ely S. Parker papers in the collection of the American Philosophical Society.
Olmsted Archives Collections - Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Guide to the papers at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Olmsted Online
OlmstedOnline.org provides an accessible, digital platform to showcase the Olmsted legacy of designed landscapes. NAOP intends to build out and populate this geographically‐based website over time with selective inclusion and/or links to archive materials both nationally and locally.
Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress
Detailed list of the contents of Olmsted's papers, which are on microfilm. Most of the films have been digitized and are online.
Guide to the Olmsted Papers and Records at the Library of Congress
A two-page summary of the collection
Statues of Abraham Lincoln. Buffalo, New York :
From the files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, full text of a booklet about the Lincoln statue at The Buffalo History Museum.