Niagara Reservation (N.Y.)

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Information related to the Niagara Historic Trail and the Niagara Reservation concerning the 1985 Centennial of the park. Four copies of a "NY Alive" magazine edition.

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Advertisement for the Cave of the Winds, historic images, invitation to a breakfast at the Native American Center for the Living Arts (1988), program from the opening of a mural at the Factory Outlets (1997), promotional election material, a calendar commemorating the Civil War (1866), and more general historical material.

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Assorted documents, primarily from the 1800s, concerning the Niagara Reservation, Cataract Hotel, railroads, tourism, and more. Included are four bound volumes - an 1872 diary for Farm Garden, a 1792 copy of the play The School for Scandal, a bound volume titled The Altar Service of the Episcopal Church belonging to Solon Whitney, and a military register for soldiers that served under Peter A. Porter.

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Photographs of the Boulder Bridge to Willow Island, some mounted

Scope and Contents Books from The Porter Collection: -Library Catalogue, 1882. A. H. Porter; -Field Notes of Lot Lines on the New York State Reservation Niagara Co. By David E. E. (?) -Mix surveyed in 1803 by Simeon DeWitt (Field Notes on a Tract of Land lying on the Niagara River in the County of Genesee and State of New York)-"Niagara, Jephthah, Remarks upon the Defense of Wessex by Alfred the Great..."(from the library of Peter A. Porter); -Kalm,...

Box S-5

Box S-5 contains: vols. 1-4 and 6 (#5 is missing) of these volumes. They are bound books filled with pledges by people to write their representatives to vote for the bill to "preserve the scenery of Niagara". From the State of New York Assembly Chamber. From the Niagara Falls Historical Society.

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Materials related to the Niagara Reservation Centennial including correspondences with the Niagara Reservation Centennial Commission, invitations, and programs

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Newspaper clippings concerning the Niagara Centennial

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Centennial celebration poster for the Niagara Reservation, oversized.

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Letters sent by the Niagara Reservation Centennial Commission to library historian Donald Loker