University at Buffalo Libraries

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Gottlieb, Bernhardt S.

Gottlieb was a 1921 graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and practiced psychiatry in New York City and was on the faculty of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He authored several popular books on sex and marriage including What You Should Know About Marriage which was co-authored by his wife Dr. Sophie B. Gottlieb. He died in 1991.

Graycliff Conservancy

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See Graycliff - The Isabelle R. Martin House online exhibit. The collection includes the official records of the Conservancy and Graycliff-related historical artifacts and documents collected by the Conservancy relating to Frank Lloyd Wright and Graycliff: the Isabelle R. Martin House.

Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra

A collection of materials including programs, announcements, correspondence and newspaper clippings about the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra and the Community Music School of Buffalo.

Hahn, Herman J.

Collection documents the work of Herman J. Hahn as pastor of the Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ. Included are radio addresses given by Hahn (1930-1934) and copies of scrapbooks created by Irvin Alt, educator and Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ parishioner. The scrapbooks contain clippings about Herman J. Hahn and the Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ, where Hahn was pastor from 1922-1948.

Hayes, Edmund

Brigadier General Edmund B. Hayes (1849-1923) was an engineer and businessman who built bridges and manufactured automobiles. He was a member of the University Council from 1920 to 1923. Hayes Hall on the South Campus is named for him. The collection consists of three documents pertaining to Hayes' service in the New York State Militia: certificate of honorable discharge with the rank of Major, April 22, 1884; commission as Chief Engineer, State of New York, with the rank of Brigadier General, Jan. 1, 1895; and a certificate of honorable discharge with rank of Brigadier General, Dec. 31, 1896.

Head Start Training Program

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See Ruth McGrath's Papers (17/F/461) for more information on the Head Start Training Program at the University at Buffalo.

Hewlett, Ruth V. and Theodosia Stickney

Photograph albums of Ruth V. Hewlett and Theodosia Stickney [née Hewlett], graduates and lifelong donors of the University at Buffalo. Also includes photograph albums belonging to their older sister, Josephine Hewlett, an alumni of the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo.

Heyd, Charles Gordon

Heyd, born in Brantford, Ontario, was a 1909 graduate of the University of Buffalo Medical School. He was president of the American Medical Association (1936-1937) and was a surgeon and professor at Columbia University Medical School and the New York Post Graduate Hospital and Medical School.

Historia de Chile

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Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm Design School)

Collection of William S. Huff on the renowned Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany. "During its brief existence from 1955 to 1968, the HfG Ulm exerted an influence that no one could have predicted from its small size, improbable location, or short lifespan. Originally conceived as a successor to the Bauhaus, the school quickly abandoned that model and set out to explore the uncharted territory of designing for mass production. Under the direction of Max Bill and Tomas Maldonado, the school became an extraordinary laboratory of design and center of talent. More than twenty years after its closing, Ulm is still considered the most important European school of design since the Bauhaus."

Hofstadter, Richard

Book manuscript of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). UB Alumni Hofstadter authored 13 books on American history. Both Hofstadter's The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1964) won Pulitzer Prizes.

Illustrations of Women's Clothing

A collection of colored illustrations of nineteenth century British women's clothing. Illustrations removed from unidentified publications.

International Women Playwrights Conference

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Papers kept by Professor Anna Kay France as director of the First International Playwrights Conference. Includes correspondence with national and international playwrights, session transcripts, and papers from the International Center for Women's Playwrights.View finding aid

Jay, David G.

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George Arthur, et al., plaintiffs-appellees vs. Ewald P. Nyquist, et al., defendants-appellants.

Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo Collection

The Records of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo segment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Included are the records of constituent agencies and member organizations of the Federation such as, the Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Family Services, the Jewish Community Center, Kadimah School of Buffalo, and the Rose Coplon Home. Records include minutes, committee reports, publications, correspondence, yearbooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Selig Adler Collection as part of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo consists of Adler's published articles as well as those of colleagues and friends. Includes biographical information on Adler and his family as well as his notes and lecture materials on Jewish and American history.

Records of the Local Jewish Community segment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo includes cemetery records, local Temple and Shul records, and Jewish organizations. Also included are material pertaining Deported Persons and Refugee Matters, and the Papers of Max M. Yellen and Dr. Gerhard J. Falk and Dr. Ursula A. Falk.

The Papers of Prominent Local Jews segment of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo includes the papers of Donald S. Day, Dorothy Goldberg, Bernard Mandelkern, Morton Merowitz, Haskell Penn, and Milton Plesur as well as oral history interviews with other notable persons. Included in the collection are committee reports, correspondence, photographs, and citizenship records.

Synagogue Records of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Records of Congregation B'rith Sholem (Pine Street Shul) and Temple Sinai include account books, record books, receipt and memo pads, photographs, deeds, correspondence, committee minutes, and bulletins.

Johnston, James N. (James Nichol)

Collection of scrapbooks and photographs documenting local items of interest and people of Buffalo and Western New York, circa 1850-1917, gathered by James Nichol Johnston for his anthology, The Poets and Poetry of Buffalo.

Jonson, George Washington

Two diaries of George Washington Jonson (1801-1880) contain detailed accounts of political, social, and legal affairs in Buffalo, New York, and of Jonson's activities. Particularly interesting are Jonson's comments and accounts of abolitionist and other reform activities, in which he was an active participant.

June 4 Memorial Fund

The June 4 Memorial Fund was an independent, non-profit student/faculty organization initiated in 1989 to promote human rights for all Chinese people.

Kahn, Louis I.

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Collection of William S. Huff.

Katalog Ksiaziek Bibliotek Unijny

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Klein, Isaac

Collection of Rabbi Isaac Klein includes school notebooks, correspondence, photographs, military service records, speeches, articles, manuscripts, and other writings relating to his life and teachings in conservative Judaism.

Kramer, Jacob 1912-1992

Kramer served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; was a labor organizer; and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. He joined the Gray Panthers in 1972 and became coordinator of the State University of New York at Buffalo student chapter. He received a B.A. from the University and two master's degrees.

Labor Unions

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Lipset, Seymour Martin

Printed material collected by Lipset and others at Harvard University between 1967 and 1971. Includes student publications; articles for scholarly journals and popular magazines; newspaper clippings and studies concerning student activist movements throughout the world, with emphasis on the United States, Latin America, and international student organizations. Also many unpublished studies about students originally prepared for presentation at conferences or for graduate courses. This collection reflects only a partial result of the material collected by the project.

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Lipsitz, Richard

Working papers of Richard Lipsitz, Esq., attorney for plaintiffs in Keyishian et al. vs. Board of Regents et al., 1964, in which four faculty members and a librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo challenged New York State's Feinberg Law on public employees and subversive activities. Includes correspondence, court documents, notes, press clippings, and background materials.

Levin, Hyman L.

Dr. Hyman L. Levin, 1885-1965, was a 1911 graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and was a psychiatrist at Buffalo State Hospital in Buffalo, New York.

Lockwood, Thomas B.

The collection contains letters, photographs and clippings, pertaining to the dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library and the production of a catalog for the occasion. The collection also includes Lockwood family memorabilia consisting of scrapbooks, diaries, guestbooks, correspondence, photographs, programs and menus.

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Antiquarian book catalogs collected by Thomas B. Lockwood and the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Notebooks and card file maintained by Thomas B. Lockwood documenting the acquisition of individual items in the collection of books and other items which were donated to the University of Buffalo in 1935.

Loescher, Chester W.

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The Log Cabin newspaper

A Whig campaign paper supporting William Henry Harrison for president edited by Horace Greeley and published in New York City. Includes music.

Love Canal collections

This collection contains the records of the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier including administrative documents, the papers of Executive Director Pat Brown, subject files, a resource library, environmental and habitability studies and reports, and legal documents.

Selected records and documents of and relating to the Love Canal Revitalization Agency (LCARA).

Kathleen DeLaney's records pertaining to the grant funded by the Niagara County Environmental Fund in 2000 to collect information on area institution's historic Love Canal disaster area document collections.

Microfilm of articles about Love Canal from the New York Times, the Buffalo Evening News, and the Niagara Gazette for the period 1978-1980 with an index to the coverage and a collection of more than two hundred photographic slides of the Love Canal area taken by Dr. Ploughman. In 1977-1980 Dr. Ploughman was a member of the University at Buffalo Sociology Department's Love Canal Research Group. Her dissertation, "The creation of newsworthy events: an analysis of newspaper coverage of the man-made disaster at Love Canal" (1984), addresses the role of the news media in the Love Canal disaster. A copy of the dissertation is included in the collection.

The Love Canal newspaper clipping file contains articles culled from the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier Love Canal Collection. Taken from local and national newspapers from 1978-1990, some articles may be restricted for study by copyright issues. There is a searchable database of the articles available online at http://library.buffalo.edu/specialcollections/lovecanal/database/

A series of aerial photographs and maps of the Love Canal toxic waste disposal area of Niagara Falls, New York. The images impart a chronological history of the area from 1938 through 1979, from Hooker Electrochemical Company's waste disposal operations in progress, the sale of the property at public auction to the Niagara Falls Board of Education for $1.00, the construction of homes and a school adjacent to the original canal site to the eventual remediation attempts and the demolition of the "first ring" homes closest to the site.

An online resource providing background and context for the various Love Canal related collections in the University Archives. Includes chronologies, glossaries, a clipping database, image gallery, links to related resources.

Manch, Joseph

The papers of Joseph Manch, Superintendent of Buffalo Public Schools (1957-1975), document his professional and personal activities.

Mann, William Barrow

Letters written by Dr. William B. Mann, 1853-1891, discussing family matters; his studies at the Albany Medical College and the University of Buffalo Medical School; his service as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War; and other matters. Also includes letters of other family members, 1803-1858.

Martin, Darwin D.

Correspondence, diaries, photographs, recorded interviews, architectural plans, drawings, and contractor's letter book relating to the 1903-1905 construction of the Darwin D. Martin house located on 125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, New York. Also includes information on the Larkin Company Administration Building, Graycliff, blueprints for the unconstructed W.W. Davies house and correspondence between Wright and Michael Meredeth Hare.

Transcripts and tape recorded interviews with Dorothy Martin Foster, Darwin R. Martin and others concerning the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York and other structures in Western New York designed by Wright.

Architectural drawings and blueprints of the Darwin D. Martin House and related structures and Graycliff, the Martin home in Derby, New York.

An ongoing reference collection (first created by Mrs. Martin Meyerson, maintained by Archives staff)
of newspaper clippings, periodical articles, and brochures concerning Wright, the Darwin D. Martin House, and Graycliff.

A collection of photographs documenting the construction of Graycliff, the summer home of the Darwin D. Martin family.

Blueprints for the residence designed by Wright for W.W. Davies in Louisville, Kentucky, but never constructed.

Photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, and their summer house, Graycliff, in Derby, New York, both designed by architect Frank
Lloyd Wright, and photographs of the Martin family.

Diaries, memorandum books, business and family correspondence, genealogical material, and other items concerning Darwin D. Martin, his wife Isabelle Reidpath Martin and their children Dorothy and Darwin R. Martin.

Correspondence between Darwin D. Martin and O.S. Lang, the general contractor for the Martin House and related structures.

Primarily correspondence between Wright and Martin concerning structures in Buffalo and Western New York which Wright designed for Martin-Darwin D. Martin House, George Barton House, Graycliff, and the Larkin Company Administration Building.

Architectural plans for the Larkin Company's administration building which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Documentation for the project sponsored by the Western New York Library Resources Council to digitize the photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family. For more information see MS 22.92.

Digitized from photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, and their summer house, Graycliff, in Derby, New York, both designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and photographs of the Martin family.

Mazarinades

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Pamphlets arranged according to numbering in Mazarinades: A Checklist of Mazarinades Held by the Libraries at The State University of New York at Buffalo, compiled by Madeleine Stern (1972).

McCarthy, Richard D. "Max"

Papers of former United States congressman who represented New York's 39th district.

McKaig, Thomas H.

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Copy of typescript manuscript for Thomas McKaig's publication Applied Structural Design of Buildings. McKaig was an engineer and architect in Buffalo, New York (1890-1967).

"The author was the founder and first president of Structural Clinic of Buffalo. He holds degrees from both the College of Architecture and the College of Engineering of Cornell. This unique manual supplies the practical information needed to bridge the gap between the structural designer's theoretical education and the demands of actual practice and procedures, design methods, operating codes, etc." (note from the third edition's dust jacket).

Mexican and Latin American Oral Histories

Five series of transcripts for oral histories conducted by James Wallace Wilkie (unless otherwise noted).

• Mexican leaders, 1964-1965
• Costa Rica 1968-1969
• Guatemala 1968 (interviews conducted by Marta Chelsky)
• Brazil 1968-1969
• Peru 1966
• Bolivia 1966-1967, 1970-1971

Michigan Avenue Y.M.C.A.

The collection consists of administrative records including minutes, reports, photographs and scrapbooks which contain clippings, leaflets, programs and copies of "The Y's Messenger," a Michigan Avenue Y.M.C.A. newsletter.

Miles, E.J.

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Military and Draft Counseling Center of Buffalo

The records of the Military and Draft Counseling Center of Buffalo reflect the center's efforts from 1968 to 1978 to counsel area men and service people about their rights and options regarding the Selective Service System and the military.

Milstein, Wittek & Davis Associates

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Mothers' Club of Buffalo

The Mothers' Club of Buffalo, affiliated with the Mother's Assembly of the State of New York, was a local women's group dedicated to educating parents about issues relating to the home and school. The collection includes annual programs listing upcoming meetings, officers, and current members from 1904-1910. It also includes programs from the 1912 New York State Mothers Assembly held in Rochester, New York.

Murphy, Peter

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National League of American Pen Women

Collection of materials from the Western New York branch of the National League of American Pen Women. The collection includes scrapbooks, administrative and member files, and samples of works by members.

National Organization for Women

The papers of the Buffalo chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1973-1986. The files include clippings, leaflets and serials on subjects of concern to the Buffalo Chapter, such as local politics, Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive rights, and domestic violence. Records were kept in part by NOW Chapter Presidents Paulette Hammond, Mary Jo Egner, and Linda Cleveland.

National Security League

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New York State Association of Two-Year Colleges

Correspondence, mainly concerning meeting sites and speaker selection; minutes, by-laws, reports, membership lists, and tapes of annual conferences. Includes Association publications; New York State junior college news bulletin, Annual journal of the New York Association of Junior Colleges, Educational dimensions and Info.

New York State Conservation Council

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New York State Constitutional Conventions

(unprocessed collection)

New York State Freedom Trains

A scrapbook containing newspaper articles from a variety of local newspapers in New York State which chronicle the visit of the New York State Freedom Train in their communities; plus a typescript record (circa 188 leaves) of the events is part of this collection. Also included is a group photograph which includes President Harry S. Truman.

Noles, Eva M.

Scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, awards, and publications documenting the professional career of Eva M. Noles, nurse, author, and local activist.

Also see online exhibit, Eva M. Noles: Nurse, Educator, Volunteer, Community Leader, Author

Oral histories of Georgia Burnette, Gwendolyn Greene, Thelma Hardiman, Eva Noles, Garnet Hicks Wallace conducted by Peggy Brook-Bertram and Barbara Seals Nevergold of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc.

Orr-Ewing, Muriel

Correspondence, diaries, photograph albums of Muriel Orr-Ewing (nicknamed "Meiko"). Collection includes records as founding president of the British Association of Women Executives and headmistress of the English girls finishing school, The Grove. Also includes personal correspondence with opera singer, Adèle Leigh, child author Berthe Grimault, and other notable writers and poets.

Osborn, Alexander F.

Records of the Creative Education Foundation, 1954-1964, including correspondence, instructor manuals, student workbooks, speeches, reports, reprints of articles, clippings, and notes. Also includes original manuscripts of books written by Osborn: Applied Imagination. (1953); Wake Up Your Mind (1952); and Your Own Creative Power (1948).

Pan American Exposition of 1901

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Collection of Pan American Exposition of 1901 memorabilia donated by former UB Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, Kerry S. Grant, in 2004.

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Auction catalog of 315 numbered lots offered on the postal history of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Includes brief annotations with price ranges to be realized for each to be sold at public auction Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:00 a.m. by H.R. Harmer, Inc., Philatelic Auctioneers, West Caldwell, New Jersey.

Park, Roswell (1726-1762)

Roswell Park (1726-1762) of Preston, Connecticut, was a member of the Colonial American force that captured Havana, Cuba in 1762 and an ancestor of University of Buffalo School of Medicine instructor, Dr. Roswell Park. Journal kept by Roswell Park of the expedition against Cuba in 1762, beginning on May 19 when Park joined the expedition. The journal describes the voyage to Cuba, the siege and surrender of Havana, and Park's activities through August 16. Notes by his wife, Deborah Park, at the end of the journal, report Park's illness and death. The text of the journal has been published as the University of Buffalo Studies, volume 1, number 4.

Parke, Fenton M.

This collections consists of business records, correspondence, plot maps, property listings; ephemera of civic, religious, fraternal, and cultural institutions; family memorabilia, reminiscences; clippings on Buffalo local history; photographs of downtown Buffalo, circa 1910; medals; speech notes on clock collecting and Lincolniana. Also included are papers of his wife Margaret Kidd Parks: correspondence, notes from classes at the University at Buffalo, and correspondence related to the Home for the Friendless.

Philosophical manuscripts

Moritz Geiger was a leading authority on descriptive phenomenology originally from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His collection of philosophical manuscripts (written in German and English) focus on aesthetics, the phenomenology of psychology, and the philosophy of science. Also included is a typescript entitled "Jaspers Kritik" believed to be by Martin Heidegger, and a memorandum "Die Manuskripte Edmund Husserls."

Photographic album

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Album of unknown origin includes images of various towns in the state of Maine.

Ploughman, Penelope

Microfilm of articles about Love Canal from the New York Times, the Buffalo Evening News, and the Niagara Gazette for the period 1978-1980 with an index to the coverage and a collection of more than two hundred photographic slides of the Love Canal area taken by Dr. Ploughman. In 1977-1980 Dr. Ploughman was a member of the University at Buffalo Sociology Department's Love Canal Research Group. Her dissertation, "The creation of newsworthy events: an analysis of newspaper coverage of the man-made disaster at Love Canal" (1984), addresses the role of the news media in the Love Canal disaster. A copy of the dissertation is included in the collection.

Polish Union of America

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Collection of guest registers from the Polish Union of America, Buffalo chapter including Ksiega Pamiatkowa Dziennika dla Wszystkich, 1914 - circa 1956 and Zlota Ksiega Biblioteki Unijnej, 1920-1972.

Polish Theatre Materials

(unprocessed collection)

Political and Social Pamphlets

A collection of twentieth century political and social pamphlets issued in the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere.

Compliments a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century pamphlets on microfiche produced by the libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the State University of New York at Binghamton, the State University of New York at Albany, Cornell University, and New York University. A catalog of the microfiche collection was issued as TWENTIETH CENTURY POLITICAL PAMPHLETS (1994).

Polivka, J.J.

Papers of J.J. Polivka, internationally renowned Czechoslovakian structural engineer. Collection documents his collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on many of Wright's later projects including the Guggenheim Museum. Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs and photograph negatives.

Pro-Choice Network of Western New York

Records of the reproductive rights advocacy group Pro-Choice Network of Western New York, 1988-2004. Collection is composed of documents concerning the organization's administration, events, and lawsuits. It also contains educational background material including extensive newspaper and magazine clippings.

Rodgers, Helen Z. M. (Helen Zaidee Marie)

This collection contains writings and speeches; newspaper clippings; and pamphlets, programs and other printed material concerning political and civic groups, covering such topics as women's suffrage, women workers, women as jurors and city and state politics. Of particular interest to the study of the woman suffrage movement in Buffalo are membership lists of the Woman Workers Suffrage League (circa 1908) and from the Buffalo Political Equality League (circa 1905).

Rogovin, Milton

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Roswell Park Medical Club

Text of speech "Reminiscence of Yesteryear," an informal history of the Roswell Park Medical Club, delivered in Buffalo on April 16, 1974.

Schweik, Joanne L. (Joanne Lovell)

Papers of Joanne L. Schweik concerning her activities as Vice President for Public Relations of the New York Branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and as editor of the NOW New York State newsletter. Included are correspondence, local branch newsletters, council meeting minutes and newspaper clippings. Also included is a photocopy of the transcript for the Equal Rights Amendment hearings before the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee on March 11, 1975.

Scriptores

Collection documents the Scriptores club, a luncheon group of published writers which began in 1920. Includes financial records, membership records, newsletters, and club history.

Seneca Nation

Item dated Buffalo July 17, 1829, recording the receipt of an annuity paid to the Seneca Nation according to the terms of the Phelps-Gorham purchase of 1788; includes signatures of witnesses, interpreter, and several Seneca chiefs.

Sigma Pi Phi Alpha Kappa Boule

Collection of Sigma Pi Phi Alpha Kappa Boule includes correspondence, minutes, committee reports, memorandum, newsletters and journals.

Silver Creek Shakespeare Club

Record books, 1890-1902, 1912-1913, containing lists of members and officers, and minutes of meetings; annual programs, 1891-1987, containing the year's events, plays read and the constitution of the club; photographs, circa 1904-1987; scrapbooks commemorating the 75th and 100th anniversaries of the club; papers, circa 1903-1970, written by members on plays and other literary topics, read at the annual Shakespeare nights; clippings and correspondence concerning the club, and a history of the club compiled at the time of its 75th anniversary. Also included are memorabilia and clippings about Shakespeare collected by the club and a set of critical editions of Shakespeare's plays by Henry N. Hudson, purchased by the club in 1890.

Simmons, Sarah

Collection consists of the files Sarah Simmons kept as a member of the Citizen's Commission on School Desegregation and the Emergency School Aid Act Advisory Committee concerning school desegregation in Buffalo, New York.

Smith, Elizabeth Olmsted

Papers represent Elizabeth Olmsted Smith's activities in the peace movement in Buffalo, New York, from 1933 to 1941, and from 1950 to 1975. Also included are personal papers (1923 to 1940) and materials concerning her work as a social worker (1949 to 1957).

Social History Project, York University Institute for Behavioral Research

This collection contains working papers related to the Social History Project developed at York University Institute for Behavioral Research, November 1976. The initial project was based on a case study of the history of social structure and family organization in Hamilton, Ontario and Buffalo and rural Erie County, New York during the nineteenth century.

Soroka, Stephen S.

Letters written by Stephen Soroka, 1967-1972 and 1980-1981, to State University of New York at Buffalo history professor Orville T. Murphy. Of particular interest are his observations of life and politics in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rhodesia while serving in the Peace Corps. In his personal response to the political concerns of the late 1960's and early 1970's, Soroka is representative of the thinking of a significant segment of the American public of that period.

Special Libraries Association

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State University of New York Librarians Association

Constitution, bylaws, correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, and a history of the organization which was formed in response to concern over academic status for librarians within the State University of New York. Includes SUNLA newsletter, 1969-1974.

Striker, Fran

Papers include the bound radio scripts for many of Fran Striker's radio serial dramas including the first few years of both the The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet series. The collection also includes records regarding a YWCA television writing course Striker taught in Buffalo, New York and resources about Striker's most famous radio serial, The Long Ranger.

Student Activism and International Education

Newsletters; clippings; notes; reports; and bibliography cards concerning student movements in India, 1935-1965; in the U.S., 1960-1969; and in Japan, 1969-1970; also concerning international student organizations, 1948-1971. Includes typescript copy of letter by Gandhi, 1941, concerning the role of students in the struggle against British rule in India.

A collection of theses, published articles, and unpublished addresses and papers on student activism in the United States for the period 1900-1970, and higher education in the United States, India, and Japan for the period circa 1960-1975.

Student Unrest

Materials of student unrest in colleges and universities during the 1960s. Some material is from the 1950s and 1972; the bulk is from the years 1969 and 1970. The collection is divided into three parts: clippings from United States newspapers; newspapers and clippings from California; newspapers about unrest in California colleges and universities; and magazines, magazine articles, pamphlets, newsletters, speeches, interoffice memoranda, and minutes from conferences.

Swanson, Sonia

Sonia Swanson (1924-1978) received a master's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and held positions with the New York State Employment Service. She was a member and officer in the New York State, Buffalo, New York and Erie County, New York chapters of the National Organization for Women.

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Manuscript diary kept by E.C. Pearman on Thackeray's second and last trip to the United States.

Writings by and about William Makepeace Thackeray, reviews of Thackeray’s writings, portraits, bibliographies, and other material about the life and works of Thackeray.

Tobol, Amy Ruth

The collection contains material related to Amy Ruth Tobol's academic and extracurricular pursuits at the State University of New York at Buffalo, including extensive involvement in the Anti-Rape Task Force and the Women's Studies Program. Also included are papers which reflect Tobol's positions within the National Lawyers Guild including extensive documentation on her participation in the 12th World Festival of Youth Students (Moscow, 1985).

Uncrowned Queens

Oral histories of Georgia Burnette, Gwendolyn Greene, Thelma Hardiman, Eva Noles, Garnet Hicks Wallace conducted by Peggy Brook-Bertram and Barbara Seals Nevergold of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc.

Vietnamese Immigration

Documents the experience of Vietnamese nationals who left their country during the collapse of the South Vietnamese government in April 1975, English and Vietnamese language newspapers and U.S. government reports on Vietnamese immigration. Includes eighty-two cassette tapes of interviews with Vietnamese immigrants conducted in Vietnamese and English; interviews with case workers and other persons connected with the relief agencies; interviews with civilian and military workers in the camps, including administrators, aids, teachers and others. The collection was assembled by Gail Paradise Kelly and others as documentation for her book, From Vietnam to America: A chronicle of Vietnamese Immigration to the United States (1977).

Washington, Georges (images of)

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Thomas Lockwood's collection of rare and antique prints of engravings of George Washington.

Watson, Evelyn M.

Papers of Evelyn Watson, prolific Buffalo-area writer, award-winning poet, and noted mystic. Consists of published and unpublished poems, plays and other writings, covering themes such as Christmas, religion, and mysticism. Also includes correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous items, such as a scrapbook containing poetry-related clippings.

Wickham, Lucy L.

Scrapbook published by Dodd, Mead and Co. with printed title pages, prefaces, etc., made for the purpose of preserving memorabilia regarding plays attended by the purchaser. This set, compiled by Lucy Wickham of Buffalo, New York, contains copies of cast lists for theatrical productions in New York City for the period 1903 to circa 1935. Also contains newspaper articles.

Wilmot, Henry Amos

The Henry Amos Wilmot Papers consist primarily of the financial records of Dr. Wilmot from the time of his graduation from the University of Buffalo Medical School in 1877 until his death in 1924, documenting names of patients, dates of treatments, costs, and when, how or whether Dr. Wilmot was paid. Also includes letter files, consisting mainly of bills for medical supplies and other items, as well as Dr. Wilmot's framed diploma.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Included are minutes, newsletters, subject and background files, correspondence, and scrapbooks that reflect the internal and external activities of the branch and the activities of the US section, branch legislative files which consist of correspondence, newsletters, legislative reports, memoranda, pamphlets, and other materials, pertaining to local and national policy positions of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and actions taken by the Buffalo Branch to influence legislation and to support the general cause of peace and international understanding, items sent to local legislative chairmen by the national office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, correspondence with congress people and the news media, information on workshops and lectures sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, as well as curriculum materials for grade school children explaining the role of the United Nations in world peace.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Correspondence, diaries, photographs, recorded interviews, architectural plans, drawings, and contractor's letter book relating to the 1903-1905 construction of the Darwin D. Martin house located on 125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, New York. Also includes information on the Larkin Company Administration Building, Graycliff, blueprints for the unconstructed W.W. Davies house and correspondence between Wright and Michael Meredeth Hare.

Photographs kept by the Darwin D. Martin family depicting the Darwin D. Martin house in Buffalo, New York, and their summer house, Graycliff, in Derby, New York, both designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and photographs of the Martin family.

Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Parkwyn Village was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1947 as a Usonian community. The architectural drawing is a blueline print (41x60") of an original ink and colored pencil drawing.

Papers of J.J. Polivka, internationally renowned Czechoslovakian structural engineer. Collection documents his collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on many of Wright's later projects including the Guggenheim Museum. Collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs and photograph negatives.

Wright, Lydia T.

The collection contains research material on school integration including press clippings, speeches, and correspondence related to efforts to integrate the school system of Buffalo, New York as well as other civil rights issues including the 1963 March on Washington. Collection also includes personal memorabilia and family papers.

Zonta International

Founded in Buffalo, New York in 1919, Zonta International is a global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Later in 1930, the organization was incorporated as Zonta International and headquarters were moved to Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to full runs of Zonta Publications, the University Archives houses four collections of Zonta's records: early historical papers, records of the Buffalo Club, scrapbooks, and the records of District 4. All the collections include minutes, committee reports, financial and membership records, scrapbooks and memorabilia.

Collection includes clippings, publications, and minutes from the early history of Zonta when its headquarters were in Buffalo, New York.

Collection includes clippings, publications, and minutes from the local Buffalo chapter of Zonta International.

Collection includes scrapbooks put together by Zonta International, Buffalo Club's Presidents throughout the years. Materials include photographs, clippings, invitations, and publications.

Zonta International, District 4 is the regional organization of Zonta International. It is comprised of 41 clubs that includes Western Ontario, Western New York, and Western Pennsylvania. The District is divided into six areas, each with an Area Director who is a member of the District Board.

Publications of Zonta International and its Buffalo Chapter including the Zontian (1920-2008) and Zontafax (1920-2008).