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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 exhibit on the 3rd floor of Silverman Library.

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. Open through summer 2027 in the Silverman Library, 3rd floor exhibition area.

News & Events
  • Buffalo Brief: Pan Am Exhibit at U.B.
    10/13/26

    Previewing the Pan-American Exposition exhibit in Silverman Library at the University at Buffalo's North Campus.

  • Exhibit presents never-before-seen look at 1901 Pan-American Exposition
    10/7/26

    University Libraries to show early films, memorabilia of the event where President McKinley was fatally shot.

  • Pan-American Exposition Exhibit at UB
    10/5/26

    The exhibit presents a never-before-seen look at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.