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Buffalo Harbor - Foot of Main Street, 1890s

At the turn of the 20th century, the foot of Main Street in Buffalo saw numerous ships travel through the harbor.

The Buffalo Pitts Company's thresher made its mark in agricultural history right behind McCormick's reaper. Little known, though, was the company's pioneering aeronautical efforts that anticipated flight patterns to come.

The Buffalo Bicycle Clubhouse: A Hidden Landmark

The Director of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum shares his discovery of a landmark building complete with rare interior descriptions.

Your Property Deed and the Holland Land Company

A history of the legal, financial and physical problems of opening Western New York to settlement, with emphasis on how the great survey of 1797 to 1800 was carried out by chief surveyor, Joseph Ellicott.

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Buffalo Traffic Accidents 1923-25

Around 1915, automobile manufacturers had ceased advertising their vehicles as reliable transportation and had switched to selling the romance and adventure of driving oneself wherever one's heart might desire.

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The Buffalo Pitts Company - c.1900

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Waterfront 'Idlers' - 1901

The "idlers" in the foreground are holding down part of the Atlantic Wharf on the north side of the Buffalo River between the Evans Slip and the Commercial Slip.

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Waterfront - Foot of Main Street - 1900-1945

Foot of Main Street, c. 1900. Old D. L. & W. terminal upper center above.

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