Wish List for the Research Library at The Buffalo History Museum
Books we wish we had for the collection.
Public
Accused of thefts from History Museum, former volunteer shifts blame
Buffalo News, July 24, 2015, p. 1
Minutes of The National Convention of Colored Citizens, Buffalo, 1843
Preservation of Architectural Records | Society of American Archivists
Professional advice on caring for blueprints, drawings, and other architectural records
Architecture & Home Design Journals at BECPL
A list of architecture periodicals at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library on Lafayette Square
Ancestry.com free New York records
Find record collections held by New York repositories and made available for free to New Yorkers through the Ancestry.com / New York partnership.
1930 Census of Immaculate Heart of Mary Orphan Asylum Inmates
426 names
Digital Book Index: 140,000+ free eBooks
Provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.
Online Books Page
Listing over 2 million free books on the Web
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 49,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
New York State Historical Literature Collection
A collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature.
New York Online Historical Newspapers
A grid, sorted by state & city, showing which newspapers are digitized and where.
Viewshare: Historical Newspapers Online
Viewshare is Library of Congress's simplified search screen for digging into the newspapers that they have digitized
Buffalo Criterion, 1952-1989
The Buffalo Criterion focused on Buffalo's African-American community
Historic Buffalo Newspapers Search Engine
Searches FultonHistory.com, NYSHistoricNewspapers.org, ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov, Highbeam.com (which has the Buffalo News 1996-present), and the New York Times, 1851-1980
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Zoom into your city and see a color-coded map by race/ethnicity. Based on the 2010 census.
"Plans for poor-houses" by William Pryor Letchworth
Letchworth, a Buffalo industrialist and philanthropist, proposed these designs in 1879.
Rosanne Higgins, PhD
Dr. Higgins can look up inmates of the Erie County Poorhouse/Almshouse.
Modern Daguerreian Methods: A daguerreotype workshop with Rob McElroy
McElroy is a Buffalo photographer who works with 19th century photographic methods.
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Mount Calvary Cemetery Maps
Brought to you by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Buffalo Police Department Annual Reports
Full text of years 1922-1940. Homicides are each described by a brief narrative paragraph. No other victims or offenders are identified by name in these reports.
"White House Blues" [song]
Performed by Charlie Poole
638 Homicides Occurring in Buffalo: 1902-1936
An 86 page list by Vance McLaughlin
BuffaloHistoryMuseum on Worldcat.org
Search our Library collection free. Our call numbers will not show up, however.
NY State Death Index, 1957-1963, Excluding New York City, via FamilySearch
This index is provided by the NY State Department of Health and is also available on their website at https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Genealogical-Research-Death-Index-Beginning-1957/vafa-pf2s. It contains information on decedents, date of death, gender, age at death and NYS file number that will allow the public to search for individuals if on file for at least 50 years.
Presidential Visits to Buffalo: A List
Names & dates of visits, with sources
Index to the Grover Cleveland Papers. | Library of Congress
Cleveland's papers are in the Library of Congress. This index lists by name everyone he corresponded with.
Freedom Crossing: The Underground Railroad in Greater Niagara
An exhibit at the Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University