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Eugene A. Dickson Photographic Collection

 Collection — Box: W-5
Identifier: EAD-000-000-106
Scope and Contents 32 boxes of color slides (about 40 slides per box) and a box of 8 x 10" black and white resin-coated photographs of scenes from 1959-1960 which are labeled, but many are blurry. Some of the slide boxes (and the b/w photographs) are stamped "Elizabeth A. Casey" There is also a folder of family history and a family photograph. The documentation provided in the slides is a valuable visual history of the Niagara Falls area including: streets, businesses, railroads, power house collapse...
Dates: 1959 - 1999

Giannetti Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GI-000-000-128
Content Description

Items collected by Robert Giannetti relating to Niagara Falls history. Mainly consists of postcards that focus on different subjects relating to Niagara Falls.

Dates: 1800-1969

Niagara Junction Railway Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RR-000-000-030

Railroads and Rail Travel

 Collection
Identifier: RRT-000-000-001
Dates: Majority of material found within 1870-1997

DeLancey Rankine Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: RAN-000-000-039
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, minutes, publicity and scrapbooks related to the 4 WWI (World War One) Liberty Loan drives chaired in Niagara County by Rankine. The collection includes newsletters from campaigns in Buffalo and Rochester, and a lapel pin worn by a committee member, cataloged as 2012.65.1 Topics include World War I, Home Front, Americanization.

Dates: 1916-1919

Charles A. Riemer Collection

 Collection — Box: T-7
Identifier: REI-000-000-093
Scope and Contents

These are time books of Charles H. Riemer, Motorman on IRC (International Railway Company) both for the City of Niagara Falls and High Speed to Buffalo 1907-1921 (dates of work). This collection contains 14 diaries and 1 Memorandum Book (contains addresses). It also contains a story by Daniel M. Dumych and an obituary and funeral card for Jeremiah Serfass (unsure of connection).

Keywords: Railroad, railway, trains.

Dates: 1908-1922