Appraisers Association of America | Find an Appraiser
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Book Appraisers on AbeBooks
Find someone who can appraise your old books
Museum Conservation Institute Artifact Appraisals | Smithsonian Institutioin
The Smithsonian Institution does not offer monetary evaluations. We have, however, compiled the following information which we trust will be helpful. Includes links to appraisers.
Appraisers on Antiques Roadshow | PBS
Find out everything you want to know about the expert appraisers that appear on Antiques Roadshow, including their professional bios, specialty areas and contact information.
Antique Appraisal near Buffalo, NY | Better Business Bureau
BBB directory of professional antique appraisers in the Buffalo, NY area.
Preservation of Court Records: The New York State Archives on YouTube
Thomas J. Ruller, Assistant Commissioner and State Archivist at New York State Education Department, gives an overview of the New York State Archives and the...
Using the New York State Census on Archives.com - YouTube
Find out how to use the New York State Census on Archives.com from our expert Amy Johnson Crow.
Pan-American Exposition: List of Prizes
About 4,500 awards, medals, and honors were bestowed at the Pan-Am. Here is the only list that we know of, originally published in the Buffalo Morning Express, October 10, 1901. Awards are listed in order by category, not surname. This PDF is the most legible copy we could make.
Records of St. Joseph Cemetery of Niagara Falls, NY
Courtesy of the Niagara Falls Public Library and Buffalo State College
New York State Archives Policy on Access to Records
Explains restrictions on state prison records and psychiatric records, which would include patient records from the Buffalo Psychiatric Center (Richardson complex).
The Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State
The mission of the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State is to advance and promote New York State’s historic role in the Underground Railroad movement, which was the struggle to end slavery in New York State and in the nation. This story presents an opportunity to invest in preserving and recognizing a trans formative…
Inventory of the church archives of New York State...Protestant Episcopal Church. Diocese of Western New York
Personal names will not be found in this volume. Instead, it is a study of what kinds of records were known to exist in Episcopal churches in the Buffalo area in 1939, when this survey was published. Plus it offers an excellent history of the diocese.
Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time | Buffalo Streets
A frequently-updated blog on how streets in Buffalo got their names.
The Archives of the Holland Land Company in Reed Library and Related New York State Collections. Research Guide No. 56
The Holland Land Company Manuscript Preservation Project in Reed Library, State University of New York, College at Fredonia is a grant-supported project...
Minority-Owned Businesses in Buffalo
Downloaded from the Buffalo Common Council website, compilation date unknown. Added March 2018.
A Closer Look: Buffalo History Museum – The Buffalo News
The Buffalo History Museum, designed by architect George Cary, was originally built as the New York State Building at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. About 40 photographs
2017-2018 Assessment Roll | OpenData Buffalo
This dataset contains information pertaining to the assessed value of properties within the City of Buffalo. Accurate property inventory/information is vital to an equitable assessment and the City of Buffalo is committed to providing fair and equitable assessments in each annual Assessment Roll so that property owners pay only their fair share of property taxes.
Buffalo Building Permits, 2007 to present
This is a dataset of all permits issued from 1/2/2007 to the present by the City of Buffalo. The Building Permit Office within the Department of Permit & Inspection Services is responsible for issuing permits, plan review and enforcement for compliance with the New York State Building Codes and all applicable ordinances in the City of Buffalo.
Open Data Buffalo
Statistics, maps, documents, files from City of Buffalo government operations
Buffalo Commons: DigitalCommons@ILR
Tremendous number of academic studies here of the Buffalo labor market, arts & culture, poverty, vacant properties, law enforcement, and much more.
John Porteous Papers, 1764-1862
This page was developed in a library in Canada and it offers an excellent description of our John Porteous papers (M65-1). We own them on microfilm and so does the University of New Brunswick.
Fair Use Evaluator
Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
Buffalo Researcher Directory, 2016
This is a guide to professors, academics, government officials, and others who are working on various public policy areas. They may or may not be able to answer questions for you.
Audio Preservation and Restoration Directory
Directory of vendors who can do audio recording preservation and digitization
New York Slavery Records Index – Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War
The Association of Religion Data Archives | American Denominations | Denominational Profiles
An excellent resource for denominational histories, splits, mergers, name changes, etc.
Rights Statements
RightsStatements.org currently provides 12 different rights statements that can be used by cultural heritage institutions to communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public. The rights statements have been designed with both human users and machine users (such as search engines) in mind and are made available as linked data.
Research Methods Blog
Lots of good advice here from Margot Note.
Archives in the Buff
Archives in the Buff will arrange, describe, create access to, and preserve important family or small business documents, in whichever variety of media they currently exist.
Buffalo Sunday Times, Vol. XLIV, No. 53, September 15, 1901
Illustrated articles about the assassination