Scrapbooks, 1882-1938

Box — Box: 17

Identifier: Box 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks about schools in Niagara Falls and local history.

12 scrapbooks containing various newspaper clippings of local events and history as well as events outside the area. Books also contain greeting cards and advertising cards, some of the latter are for local businesses, others for businesses in Buffalo, Syracuse, New York and Chicago. There is also a photograph of the Gorge Route Railway Tunnel near Lewiston and a carte de visite of Niagara Falls poet John R. Barlow.

Dates

1882-1938

Extent

1.903356481 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

-Otto Utz, loose materials from Chicago, Germany, "Scrapbook 12" written in front, 1882-1893.

-Locher Family, Falls St., n.d. Advertising and greeting cards some local.

-MFW (Marjorie F. Williams), n.d. advert cards, Edward T. Williams Collection.

-Locher Family, Falls St. n.d. Advertising and greeting cards, some local

-Betty Scott, 1934-1938, misc. newspaper clippings, some local, Betty Scott, 648 Ashland, April 26, 1999.

-Ann Emling, n.d., Historic Falls clippings, CDV of John R. Barlow, Gorge Route Photo

-Ann Emling, n.d., Historic Falls clippings.

Unknown, n.d., ads, greeting cards, some local

-unknown, 1936-1938, local scenes, Honeymoon Bridge collapse.

-Margaret Mary Lamont, 1895, picture cards and cutouts

-Edith Lamont, 1895-1898, Advertising and greeting cards, mostly Buffalo and Syracuse.