Document Transcriptions of the War of 1812 in the Northwest
Volumes 1-6, 9, 10, and the index are online in full text.
Public
1845 Census of the Tonawanda Reservation
Scans of the handwritten manuscript pages
1845 Census of the Alleghany Reservation
Scans of the handwritten manuscript pages
Library Copying
Explanation of the circumstances under which libraries can make copies
Disturbed and violent insane in county asylums and poor-houses
"Report ... by Dr. Charles S. Hoyt, Secretary, transmitted with the Seventeenth annual report ... to the New York State Legislature of 1884." Online in full text.
Humanities Digital Library, Open Access Scholarly Books
No Buffalo-specific works here when we added the link, but that could change at any time.
Archives of the Holland Land Company
While the original manuscript materials that comprise this digital collection are held by the Gemeentelijke Archiefdienst van Amsterdam (Municipal Archives of Amsterdam) in The Netherlands, the Daniel A. Reed Library of The State University of New York at Fredonia holds the entire extent of the collection in microfilm format (202 reels).About 20 reels from this collection are now available in digital format.
Forest Lawn Interments 1894
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1903
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1902
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1899
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1898
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1896
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1893
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1891
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1901
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
Forest Lawn Interments 1900
The collection consists of compiled death notices and articles from local newspapers with a spreadsheet listing interments by year. Copies of the death notices can be viewed in person at the Wendt Center.
When there were poor houses: early care in rural New York 1808-1950
This book is offline but the link shows you which libraries own it.
Wedding memorabilia made historic
As far as we know, The Buffalo History Museum is the first institution in the United States to collect memorabilia from legally wed same-sex couples. Originally published in Loop magazine.
Saul Alinsky Went to War
Produced in 1968, has scenes shot in Buffalo and Rochester
Crossing to Freedom: Harriet Tubman and John A. Roebling's Suspension Bridge
Originally published in the Spring 2010 issue of Western New York Heritage magazine.
STASH: Storage Techniques for Art, Science & History
Information and tools so that institutions and collectors of all types, sizes and resource levels can learn how to create safe and appropriate storage solutions. These solutions were written by and for collection care professionals in all fields.
LDS Genealogy Research Services
We have successfully performed research for more than 150 clients and counting. We have access to all of the major online subscription websites, as well as access to non-digitized records in the Family History Library and many other major archives. We can locate individual documents such as birth records, marriage records, death records, obituaries, newspaper articles, military records, and more. We have experience solving complex genealogy research problems. We are an independent research service and are not formally affiliated with FamilySearch or the LDS Church.
Hein Online Slavery Collection
This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
Larkin Building: Colorized Images
No color photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building, which was demolished in 1950, are known to survive. So someone took black & white images and came up with colorized versions of them.
The National Archives YouTube channel
How-to videos for doing research at the U.S. National Archives.
Register of War of 1812 Soldiers in the Williamsville Hospital, 1814-1815
black & white scans of over 300 pages of handwritten notes on the soldiers admitted to the Williamsville Hospital during the War of 1812. The original register is in the collection of the U.S. National Archives. Scans were acquired and shared with us by the Cheektowaga Historical Association.
Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Orphan Works
An orphan work has two properties: It is under copyright, and diligent effort cannot identify the copyright holder. The second property creates frustrating problems, because many important uses of copyrighted works require permission of the copyright holder. Orphan works exist in a legal limbo in which we might have to forgo socially beneficial uses of the work – not because the rightsholder opposes them, but because we cannot find the right person to ask.
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Patterns in Time [book]
Purchase copies of our reissued quilt book, "Patterns in Time " (2016).
Mapping Ararat
Using augmented reality, this project animates Major Mordecai Noah's 1825 unrealized plan to transform Grand Island, New York into Ararat, a "city of refuge for the Jews." The Ararat stone survives in the collection of The Buffalo History Museum.