NAGPRA inventories
Lists of human remains in the care of museums & federal agencies, submitted in compliance with the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
Public
Buffalo researcher directory
Partnership for the Public Good, ca. 2015?
Buffalo Endurance Run, 1901
An automobile race during the Pan-American Exposition
Freedom Seekers: The Underground Railroad, Great Lakes, and Science Literacy Activities
Middle school & high school curriculum
Anti-slavery movement in the Dunkirk area, 1836 -1863
Wendy Straight, 202
Frederick Douglass: Ten Days of a Fugitive Slave in Buffalo.
Christine Parker, 2020
From Slaves to Subjects: Forging Freedom in the Canadian Legal System
Nina Halty, 2017
No Person Shall Be Deprived: Antislavery Due Process in New York State Courts, 1840-1860
Zachary Aaron Kimmel, 2021
Request an Obituary/Death Notice from BECPL
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library has an obituary look-up service for a nominal fee.
Editorial Rates - Editorial Freelancers Association
For when you need someone to look over your local history manuscript
Find an Editor - Institute of Professional Editors Limited
For when you need someone to look over your local history novel or manuscript
Map of Niagara River or ye Straights between the Lakes Erie and Ontario with the Islands, Falls, and Rapids, as also the Carrying Place with its Road and distance, 1760
First map to show Buffalo Creek by that name
Ameryka Echo, 1902-1906
In Polish. Ameryka Echo began in 1902 as a merger of the Toledo-based Ameryka and the Buffalo-based Echo.
Halftones
Understanding & identifying various photographic processes
Guide to the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Engine Drawing Collection
These plans & drawings are at Wright State University in Ohio. They are not digitized or online.
Holland Land Company records and related documents at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Courtesy of FamilySearch.org
Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State
The Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) is a coalition of organizations across New York State with programs and sites related to the Underground Railroad that preserve and celebrate Underground Railroad history and its relevance for today.
Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes
By Margaret Wooster
Millard Fillmore Papers | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Fillmore's papers are scattered among multiple institutions. Here's a partial list.
Erins on the Erie: A Historical Labor Study, 2002
About Irish laborers on the canal
Original maps of surveys for the Erie Canal
These are the first maps of the western end of the canal. They are in the NY State Archives and are not digitized or online.
WIVB-TV Black History Specials | Buffalo State College
By Rich Newberg
Buffalo School Buildings — past and present
A list of former and surviving public school buildings & addresses in Buffalo
"Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities" by Lenora April Harris
This dissertation investigates school attendance rates among African American children in New York State from 1850-1870 by examining household patterns and educational access for African American school-age children in three communities: Sandy Ground, Syracuse, and Watertown. These communities were selected because of their involvement in the Underground Railroad.
Keeper of the Western Door | Smithsonian Institution
Multiple full-text documents from the Seneca here
Artpark Archival Collection
A 400 page inventory of the collection at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center.
War Manufacturing Facilities Authorized Through December 1944 by State
Look here for a list of factories in Buffalo & Erie County with defense contracts during World War II
Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal | DPLA
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
No Glory: Letters from France, 1917-1919
Illustrations from the book
The Record: Buffalo State College Student Newspaper
The Record, SUNY Buffalo State’s student-run newspaper, has served as an arena for up-and-coming student journalists to practice their trade while representing a slice of the college community’s identity since the paper’s establishment in 1913.