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The Buffalo History Museum

The Buffalo History Museum

1 Museum Court
Bufalo, NY 14216, United States
The Buffalo History Museum has been Western New York's premier historical organization since 1862. We are the keepers of the authentic stories that make our community unique. Our collections, exhibits, and programs tell the stories of the people, events, and movements that demonstrate Western New York's essential place in shaping American history.

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Buffalo Federation of Women’s Clubs

Includes minutes, 1930-1996; committee reports, 1936-1996; convention files, 1907-1996; Federation Days files, 1938-1996; bulletins, 1944-1996; rosters, 1926/27-1993/94; photographs, undated and 1965-1992; scrapbooks, 1958-1980; and clippings, undated and 1924-1990. Also included in series I are materials of the Bicentennial Committee (1976), including a tape cassette of a program, correspondence with Congressman Jack Kemp, and a greeting from President Gerald R. Ford.

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Buffalo Lumber Exchange

Minutes of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, Jan. 1880-Jan. 1887, Mar. 1889-Feb. 1905, April 1907-Dec. 1924, Jan. 1930-May 1950, and Dec. 1952-Nov. 1956; correspondence, including meeting notices, receipts, and industry notices, 1904-1955; luncheon registers, 1921-1931; account books, 1880-1908, and 1935-1946; memorial fund register, 1927- 1928, and memorials, 1934-1942; papers concerning the Lumber Exchange’s participation in home shows, 1953-1958; a history of the Western New York lumber industry; and obituaries and other papers concerning H. Shumway Lee and Harrison B. Mixer, members of the Lumber Exchange, 1925 and 1952.

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Buffalo (N.Y.) Public School 22

Notebook of Mother's Club, 1922-1927; treasurer's notebook, minute books, and scrapbook of the Parent-Teachers Association, 1925-1941; inventory of Department of Industrial Arts, 1935-1948; minute books of Hospitality Club, 1949-1962; guest book pages, 1979; lists of Ketchum Medal winners, 1927-1947; and several reminiscences, ca. 1971.

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Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gladstone), 1898-1991

Technical papers, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs and correspondence from and about the Curtiss-Wright Corp. and its personnel. Includes materials on several Curtiss-Wright and Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. aircraft including the B-2 Bomber, the NC-4, the June Bug and the Curtiss Racers. The technical papers contain information on the forming of various metals into airplane parts, procedures on methods of welding and published procedural manuals from the Curtiss-Wright Corp. chiefly from 1940 to 1945. Other materials collected by A.G. Butler are patents awarded to him, and materials on aircraft, aviation museums, the Aero Club of Buffalo and the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers.

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Cummings, Carlos E. (Carlos Emmons), 1878-1964

The collection includes correspondence, 1897-1961; school papers, 1867-1941, mostly from Carlos E. Cummings’ undergraduate years at Syracuse University, with diplomas of various Emmons and Cummings family members; invitations, programs, and other papers regarding lectures given by Cummings and others at the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences and elsewhere, 1900-1934; reviews of his book, East is East and West is West, 1941, and biographies from various publications, 1929-1951; travel diaries and other travel papers, 1908-1914; membership cards and papers from various clubs and associations, 1903-1934; certificates and citations, 1870-1964, mostly of Dr. Cummings, but also of his father, Lowell M. Cummings, his wife Gertrude Voss Cummings, and his daughter Virginia L. Cummings. Also, Western New York Preserving & Mfg. Co. stock certificates and transfer, 1881-1896; photographs, including two albums, one devoted to sailing, the other to the Pan-American Exposition exhibit In Darkest Africa, in which Dr. Cummings was involved, and clippings concerning his life and career, 1901-1964.