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Driving Miss Daisy Again: Town of Friendship Wins National Award For Restoring 125-Year-Old Silsby Steam Fire Engine

How the town of Friendship won a national award by restoring its 125-year-old steam fire engine.

From its beginning on the Erie Canal, Lockport grew as a city. A pictorial look at components of its distinctive history.

The Life & Times of the Superior

The launch of the steamboat Superior and the development of Buffalo Harbor, lavishly detailed in illustration and text by the acclaimed artist-historian.

Pictorial

E. R. Thomas Motor Company 1903 - 1911

Edwin Ross Thomas (1851-1936) was a Buffalonian who began his career as a bicycle manufacturer just as the gasoline-engine era began.

Pictorial

Electronic Automobilers-- 1905

A typical wealthy Buffalo couple might have two automobiles: an electric for the women in the family and a gasoline auto for the men in the family.

Pictorial

The Canadiana Revisited - 1910-2006

Designed by Frank Kirby and built at the Buffalo Dry Dock Company on Ganson Street, the coal-fired steamship Canadiana was one of the "Crystal Beach boats."

From Horse Cars to Metro Rail

The ways that public transportation has gotten Western New Yorkers en route since 1834.

Ichabod's Journey: The Diary of a Holland Purchase Pioneer

The incredible 600-mile trek of a farmer and his family from Vermont to Western New York in 1811.

Western New York Heritage

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