Main Street, winter, 1930's. Liberty Bank in the distance.
Weather agencies operated a number of forecasting stations in downtown Buffalo prior to moving to the airport.
Competition mixed with a reputation for fast freight led the owners of the Nickel Plate Railroad to develop massive food terminals in two major cities.
The Pan American Exposition is known for many things—but baseball?
A look through our collection yields a variety of advertisements from the 1880s to the 1930s.
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Geography's impact on the history of Western New York and Ontario's Niagara Peninsula.
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Buffalo was home to one of the original NFL franchises. But were they the 1921 champs?
The people of Buffalo declared the Scajaquada Creek a public nuisance and voted in favor of having a large portion of it that which flows through the east side residential district converted into an underground drain.
Once the largest wholesale market in the city of Buffalo, the Elk Street Market was a central trading place for early residents.