Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) -- History -- Colonial period -- ca. 1600-1775

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Reprints of colonial maps of North America. Includes oversized materials.

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Photographs drawing of Chabert Joncaire's Mill (1757) and oil painting of digging the first power canal at Niagara Falls in 1757-1758 (1931 painting)

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Research notes concerning the Devil's Hole Massacre (Battle of Devil's Hole), restoration of Old Fort Niagara, and biography of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle

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Transcription of letters from Cpt. John Joseph Schlosser, an officer in the British army [originals]

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Materials related to Devil's Hole, including a history of Devil's Hole with a synopsis of the 1763 Battle of Bloody Run, and news clippings related to the Devil's Hole Massacre [originals and photocopies]

Scope and Contents Transcriptions of the diaries of Jabez Fisher, who visited Niagara Falls and Fort Niagara in 1773, an article about De Witt Clinton's visit to Fort Niagara in 1810, a newspaper article about 19th-century life in Niagara Falls, a memoir by Baron De Lahontan on his visit to the Great Lakes region, an article about Maps and Milestones in 18th-century New York, and a copy of the journal History Today with an article about 19th-20th century British tourism to the Undated States [originals and...

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Photographs of the Old Stone Chimney

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Three copies of The Story of the Haunted Well, two signed by authors and the illustrator [originals]

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Materials related to the ship Le Griffon constructed by Sieur de La Salle in Niagara Falls in the 17th century including correspondences with a encyclopedia manufacturer, notes, articles, correspondences and photographs from an expedition to recover the wreck of the Griffon by Edward T. Williams, and the program for the unveiling of the Griffon Memorial in Niagara Falls [originals and photocopy]

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Copy of drawing, "Sir William Rides Again this Year," commemorating the sesquicentennial of Sir William Johnson's settlement in the Mohawk Valley