War Industrial Facilities Authorized July 1940-August 1945: Civilian Production Administration
Factories who served the war effort
Public
Republic Steel Corporation Records: Finding Aid
These records are offline and undigitized. They are in the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.
Utica Freedom Trail Walking Tour: A Proposed Tour of Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Sites
Jan DeAmicis
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor: Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad in LeRoy, NY
LeRoy Historical Society
New Yorkers Active in the Underground Railroad
from NYHistoryNet, 1997
Underground Railroad on The Niagara Frontier: Selected Sources in the Grosvenor Room
A bibliography courtesy of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Underground Railroad Agents in Western New York
African American History of Western New York
Burial lots for Fort Porter
Purchased at Forest Lawn cemetery. The fort did not have its own burial grounds.
Report of the Select Committee on the Petitions to Prevent Slave Hunting in the State of New York : transmitted to the Legislature, February 11, 1860
Birney Anti-Slavery Collection
German-Prussian Immigrants on the Niagara Frontier: The Early years of the Old Lutheran Church in the New World
by Paul Lubienecki, PhD copyright ©2018
Historical Survey and Analysis of Buffalo, New York’s African American Population: 1865 to 1918
By Michael Boston Copyright ©2020
In Assembly, March 25, 1846...Petition of the citizens of Erie County in relation to Grand Island
Includes names of those who purchased land starting in 1825.
The Buffalo Name Origin Controversy: The Demler Map – Chris Andrle
George Demler was a British military engineer, a member of the 60th regiment, and probably present at the siege of Fort Niagara in 1759. His map of the Niagara River corridor has been thought to be the earliest appearance of the name Buffalo Creek, dating possibly as early as 1760, the year after the British…
Cannons on Wings
This film focuses largely on the assembly line construction of Bell Aircraft's fighter planes. Possibly filmed in Buffalo.
Indian speech, delivered before a gentleman missionary, from Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Red Jacket. His Indian name is Sagu-ua-what-hath, which being interpreted, is Keeper-awake. ... Boston: Nathaniel Coverly | Library of Congress
Title.; Keeper-Awake.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 47, Folder 25.
List of cemeteries in Erie County, New York
Includes some burial records for some cemeteries
Records from the old North Street cemetery removed in 1901 and replaced by the 65th regiment armory...1901
Not digitized or online. Available only in the Rare Book Room of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
Buffalo History Museum at Empire Archival Discovery
A few digitized inventories & finding aids
Referrals - WNY Book Arts Center
Find book repair & restoration services in Buffalo.
Mount Calvary Cemetery | Search Burial Records
Records relating to War of 1812
From the U.S National Archives & Adjutant-General's Office
Academic Records from Former, Merged, or Renamed Institutions | New York State Education Department
Index to Arch Merrill Books
Compiled by the Batavia Library
Shipwrecks - Great Lakes Essential Resources
Research guide by the University at Buffalo
Demolishing the Pan-American Exposition | The Buffalo History Museum Blog
Apart from our Museum, built as the New York State Building, no other structures designed and built for the Exposition remain on the former Pan-Am grounds.
Directory of Open Access Books
Over 47,000 books online
2020 Census Data Mapping Portal for Buffalo-Niagara | The ILR School
You can now explore Census data by WNY County and County Subdivisions, NYS Assembly Districts, NYS Senate Districts, Erie County Legislative Districts and City of Buffalo Geographies, thanks to our Director of Research, Rusty Weaver.
Burial lots for Fort Porter. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of War of an appropriation for the purchase of lots in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., for burial purposes of Fort Porter, 1889
Documenting prehistoric habitation in your community: A guide for local historians
By the New York State Museum