Matthew Biddle shows two examples of how technology is bringing history to a wider audience.
The full content is available in the Winter 2014 Issue.
Commissioned for the opening of the new Courier-Express Building in 1930, the mural painted by Charles Bigelow and Ernest Davenport is a significant piece of Buffalo's rich journalistic and artistic history.
When a fire erupted in the M.H. Birge & Sons Wallpaper Company factory in December 1880, the workers – many of whom were children – had little time to escape. John H. Grandits looks at the Birge fire as an example of the dangers of child labor.
A sometimes-rival, sometimes-ally of John D. Rockefeller, Hascal Taylor's legacy lives on in the Guaranty Building. Aronoff, a Guaranty Building expert, meticulously details Taylor's various ventures.
We mark the two-year closing of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Elmwood Avenue facility with a retrospective on the institution's beginnings and physical evolution.
By: John Percy
Geography's impact on the history of Western New York and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.
Facsimile edition of the 1915 Beautiful Homes of Buffalo showcasing homes built for movers and shakers of a vibrant city.
Western New York Heritage magazine’s editors, past and present, reflect on the organization’s first two decades.
Photos from the early 1920s capture the fun of a blustery Queen City winter.