Larkin Soap Collectors Yahoo! Group
Helpful for identifying that Larkin piece that you have
Public
Buffalo Gazette, September 19, 1815
Scan of page 1
"A poor woman wants permit to go to Almshouse": Women, gender and poverty in New York's Burned-Over District, 1821-1861
A PhD dissertation, Includes mention of Erie County. Online in full text.
Joe Nickell, Historical Document Consultant
Joe 's expertise is in authenticating old documents
How to Find Western New York Military History Records
FBI: A Guide to Conducting Research in FBI Records
A detailed guide to publicly-accessible records
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
A list of providers from around the globe, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Maps | New York Heritage
These maps were selected from an atlas which documented slum conditions in Buffalo during the Great Depression. Individual maps show the distribution of ethnic and immigrant groups; the density of population; the incidence of crime, juvenile delinquency, and venereal disease; and other social conditions. Maps also show Buffalo ward boundaries and councilmanic districts.
Buffalo, NY Churches in 1901: A Google Map
Based on a 1901 map published by the Charity Organization Society of Buffalo, NY. Mouse over pinpoints to find links about church history or surviving records. Compiled by the Research Library of The Buffalo History Museum. Excellent for identifying churches in ancestral neighborhoods.
Randforce Associates, LLC
Professional digitization & indexing of vintage audio (cassettes, tapes, etc.) here in Buffalo
Buffalo & WNY Museums, courtesy of Visit Buffalo Niagara
Extensive list, with addresses & contact info
Consultants and Vendors | New York State Archives
A list of companies who can digitize your organization's or company's records & files and vendors who can provide archival folders, boxes, and other kinds of housing.
Buffalo Evening News, Sept. 14, 1901: "McKinley death was calm and peaceful."
Scans of all 8 pages pertaining to McKinley's death
Buffalo News Obituaries
Searchable archives dating back to 1989
Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts
Links to historic demographic & statistical report. No personal names here, just figures.
Mapping African American Historic Places in the Northeast Region
Accessing Research Databases with Your BECPL Library Card
If you have a library card from the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, this video will show you how to access specialized, proprietary (not available elsewhere) databases from home. Your tax dollars at work!
War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
This series consists of approximately 180,000 pension and bounty land warrant application files relating to claims based on service between 1812 and 1815. The files generally contain documentation submitted in support of a claim, such as the original application form, affidavits, and statements from witnesses.
War of 1812 Service Records - Lake Erie
Service records are comprised of cards created from muster, pay, receipt and other rolls for men aboard various vessels attached to the Lake Erie Station during the War of 1812. The information for officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys includes name, service dates, terms of service, monthly pay, vessels upon which they served, and notes of interest.
Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916
Some very fine scholarship on Buffalo's Irish community
The biology of poverty: Epidemiological transition in western New York
Mentions the Erie County Poorhouse
The battle before "The Souls of Black Folk": Black performance in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition
Scholarship on the Negro Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition
PANorAMa of the PAN=AM
First-ever guide to collectibles from the Pan-American Exposition. We have one copy; we'd like to have another one as back-up.
Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Scholarship on the Negro Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition
W. E. B. DuBois's Exhibit of American Negroes: African Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Scholarship on the Negro Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition
Winter in Silo City by Thomas Bittner
A picture book about Buffalo's grain elevators
With The Grain: Buffalo's Silo City
A picture book about Buffalo's grain elevators
Silo City by Thomas Bittner
A picture book about Buffalo's grain elevators
Grain by Tom Ridout
A picture book about Buffalo's grain elevators
Working Fire by Kevin Brautlacht
Buffalo's fire department