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The story of a helpless girl in violent circumstances continues to fascinate both young and old. Everyone in Western New York should know the heart-wrenching story of her endurance and adaptation to Indian life.

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The Dock Strike of 1899

The almost-entirely Irish-American scoopers went on strike early in May, 1899.

The Ebb and Flow of Buffalo's 200-Year History as a U.S. Port of Entry

The ebb and flow of Buffalo's 200-year history as a U.S. Port of Entry.

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Tug 'Martha Stewart' - 1940

Taken by a Buffalo Evening News photographer on January 18, 1940, the tug Martha Stewart plows through the nearly frozen Buffalo Harbor at the Niagara River.

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The Greater Buffalo & The U.S.S. Sable

To meet wartime demands for pilot training, the SS Greater Buffalo was one of two Great Lakes cruise ships converted to aircraft carriers on the Inland Seas.

The Buffalo Harbor Ferries

They were as unique to the Buffalo waterfront as gondolas were to Venice. Something of our own – slipped away, lost in history.

Watercolor "Historian" Opens Buffalo's "Windows to the Past"

Painter Dr. V. Roger Lalli, retired from his teaching career, has completed 43 photo-realist views of Buffalo, now reproduced in a new book.

Wheeler's Hotel: A Microcosm of Buffalo's Famous Canal District

A drama created not from the imagination but from concrete excavation, paintings and drawings of the time, legal documents and site observation. What it was like to stand on the Buffalo waterfront before the railroads, when the only highway was on the water.

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