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The University at Buffalo, University Archives collects and preserves records documenting the university’s history, as well as the broader Buffalo-Niagara region and Western New York community. In addition to official university records, the Archives holds the personal papers of faculty, alumni, and administrators, as well as materials from local activists, artists, educators, politicians, and organizations.

Holdings span a wide range of formats, including manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, audiovisual media, scrapbooks, and born-digital materials. 

Electric City, Mortal Body
Pan-American Exposition graphic.

A new exhibition from the UB Archives and the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection explores technological optimism and medical crisis at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Drawing on the recently rediscovered Matzinger Collection, the exhibition examines the assassination of President McKinley and what it revealed about the limits of modern medicine. Opening fall 2026 in Silverman Library.

News & Events
  • Breaking New Ground: UB Librarians Join College in Prison Program
    8/11/26

    Two University at Buffalo librarians are helping incarcerated individuals develop academic research skills as part of UB's College in Prison Program.

  • University Archives opens time capsules
    7/9/26

    The university had not opened a time capsule in 40 years, but in May, University Archives opened two.

  • James Joyce Fellowship & Charles D. Abbott Fellowship
    5/19/26

    The UB Humanities Institute supports two programs offered by the Special Collections Libraries for visiting scholars and graduate students to use the UB Libraries’ outstanding special and distinctive collections.