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Buffalo In Pictures

by Sharon Caher — last modified Oct 11, 2008 12:15 PM

Take a tour of Buffalo –past and present– through a great collection of pictures gathered from around the web. This is a great resource for Social Studies teachers or for anyone who loves Buffalo. Thank you to Wayne Sorrentino for sending this to us.

Buffalo Photo Album (Then & Now)

Buffalo

"Albright Art Gallery" - newly completed, 1902  
Cadillac accident - 1924  
Scajaquada Drain Project then (1920's) & now
100th NY Volunteers Monument - 1920  
Elmwood Music Hall - c. 1915  
Livestock Exchange then & now - 1901  
Sisters of Charity Hospital, inside & out - pre-1900
Victory Liberty Loan Whistle Stop - 1919
Fort Porter - Gunnery Training c. 1900
Fort Porter - The Castle c. 1900  
The Buffalo Pitts Company - c.1900
Republic Trucks: Borst-Damon - 1917
Buffalo Pottery Tour - 1910
Buffalo Traffic Accidents 1923-25
New York Central Terminal - 1929
Snowy Main Street - 1930's
Heywood Wakefield, Seneca and Wells, early 1930's
Spencer Kellogg & Sons Company - 1940  
Thanksgiving Day, Depression - 1931
General Mills International Style - 1940's
McLeod Hotel & Exchange St - c. 1930
Perry Boulevard - 1930's  
Remembering the Harbor Inn 2004  
"Trestle Alley" - the only unpaved Buffalo street (2002)  
509 Michigan Street - 2002
Margaret Wendt home - 2002  
Bethlehem Steel aerial view - 1970's
Philip Riter & the Eagle Boiler Works - 1870's
African-American Soldier - 1943
Lafayette High School, then & now - 1910  

Downtown Buffalo  

Hengerer's Main Street store construction site - 1903
471 Main Street 1816 - 2005
Electric Building - 1919
Shelton Square - troops returning from WWI 1918-1919
Main Street - 1929
Maisel Store - 1920's  
Washington Street (Chippewa) Market - 1910's
Lafayette Square aerial - 1929
Townsend Hall - early 1900's
Mohawk & Washington 1920-present
Washington & Broadway - 1920-present
German Insurance Building - 1910's
Main Street South of Chippewa - 192 9
Main Street between Chippewa & Tupper - 1920's
Federal Reserve Building over time - 1910's
New Chicago Lunch, 1920's
Franklin & West Huron Street 1940's
White Building & Weed Hardware - c. 1940's
Gayety Theater - c. 1910
Entire City Block Demolished for Progress! - 1895
Main & Swan - pre-1895
Newsboy - 1936  
Main Street - 1930's
Main & Genesee, Christmas - 1940's
Carl Meyer's Hof - Court Street - 1940's
Main & Court Streets then & now - 1950's
Barnes & Hengerer Building, 268 Main - then & now - 1940's  
Aerial View Dowtown Buffalo, 1936  
Shelton Square - 1950's  
Niagara Mohawk site aerial - 1968
Downtown early 50's part 1
Downtown late 50's part 2  
Times Building demolition  - 1967
Main & Chippewa, then & now - 1960' s
Buffalo Skyway, 1950's  
View of the future baseball stadium site - 1969  
Shopping Downtown - 1962  
Lafayette Square - then & now (2002)
Future Convention Center site - 1973  
The Aud Pharmacy - 1967
Old Seaman's Home - 1960's
Exhange Street #10 - 1967
The Nimrod Hotel - 1967
193-195 Main - 1967
Main & Exchange then (1967)& now
Main & Seneca then (1967) & now  
Aerial view future Pilot Field site - 1968  
Chippewa & Franklin, Donald McDonald House - 1980
Selkirk House - 1980
Bathouse #1 - Terrace near Genesee - 1967
Morrison Building - 1945
Benlin Building - 1940's
Norbans, Washington & Huron - 1950
Lower Terrace and Gasworks Building - 1942  
Waterfront

The Canadiana's maiden voyage - 1910  
Waterfront: Foot of Main Street - 1900-1945
Waterfront "Idlers" - 1901
Waterfront along Fuhrmann Blvd - 1909
D. L. & W. Terminal, c. 1920  
Massachusetts Pumping Station - 1920's  
Auditorium foundations - 1939
Canal Slum - 1936  
Front Park viewed from Peace Bridge - 1930's
Depression-Era Squatters: Outer Harbor - 1930's  
Lower Terrace aerial view - 1930's
Michigan Street Bridge - pre-1939  
The Frontenac in "Elevator Alley" - 1965
"Elevator Alley" - 1965
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock - 1967  
Waterfront perspective aerial - late 1950's  
Ice fishing harbor, Kinsman Independent - 1967
Waterfront - 1967  
Maiden Lane Paving/Wheeler Hotel - 1996  
Elevator Alley aerial view - 1970's
Ohio Street Lift Bridge - 1963  
Erie Basin Marina 1930 - 1980's
Foot of Main Street, 1890's
Tug Martha Stewart  - 1940
The Marine Star , aka Aquarama  - 1956
Greater Buffalo & The U.S.S. Sable  - 1940's
City of Buffalo  Lake Passenger Ship - 1900's
Niagara River Ferries - 1920's
The International Bridge - 1900's
The Peace Bridge - 1930's  

Buffalo Neighborhoods

Building Buffalo Series - 1922 (then & now)
The Lenox Hotel then & now - c. 1910
Poles in Buffalo, 1870's - 1910 - Part 1
Poles in Buffalo - Part 2
Poles in Buffalo - Part 3
Elk Street Series - Boys in the 'Hood - c. 1915
Elk Street Series -Business District, c. 1900
Elk Street - Series - Elk Street Market - c.1900
Richmond Avenue Church of Christ - 192 2
William Street near Emslie - c. 1910
Fillmore Avenue Scajaquada Drain - 1920's
Hertel Avenue near Parkside - 1931
Clinton-Bailey Market over the years - 1939  
Delavan and Grant - Then & Now 1936  
Hertel and Delaware - 1937
Bailey & Ferry - Then (1938) & Now
Frank's Casa Nova - Bailey & Ferry -1938
Delavan & Humboldt - 1937
Bidwell & Delavan - 1936
Germania Street sewer work - 1934  
Walnut and Clinton Street then & now - 1937
William and Lindbergh Gas Station then & now - 1934  
Broadway, then and now, 1951  
488 Masten Avenue - 1936
Lindbergh Drive - 1934
Masten & East Utica - 1936  
Niagara Street and Bird Avenue then & now - 1937  
J.J. Albright Estate - 1908  
Carnival Court Amusement Park - 1920  
Gates Circle, then & now and who - early 1900's  
Allen & Elmwood, then & now - 1910  
Rumsey Park - 1915
South Division Street, then & now - 1954
Willert Park & One Family's Story - 1940's  
Baldauf & Son Feed & Grocery - 1920's
Bird Avenue Playground, School 52 - c. 1910  


Western New York

Warsaw
Niagara Falls Gorge Trolley - 1925
Niagara Falls Great Gorge Route - 1895 - 1935
Crystal Beach  - 1900 - 1922
Crystal Beach miniature railroad - 1920's
Erie Beach Park - 1900-1920 part 1
Erie Beach Park - 1920 - 1930 part 2
Covered Bridge
Holland
Auto Club of Buffalo - 1920's
Flying Boat off Grand Island - 1920's
Forestville Wesleyan Church, then & now - 1912
Main & Buffalo Streets, Hamburg, over the years - 1900
North Boston Fire Company, over the years - 1910
Market Street, Attica, then & now - early 1900's
Gowanda Series: Buffalo Street - c. 1900
Gowanda Series: Grand Hotel - c. 1900
Gowanda Series: Eastern Tanners Glue Factory - c. 1910
The Kenilworth Race Track - 1902
Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk - c. 1900
Megown's cabins
South Grand Island Bridge - late 1930's
Curs-Wright aircraft plant - early 1940's  
Jack Randall - 1980
Chase Viele - 2002
Water Skiers off Grand Isand - 1950's
"Haydreaming" - 1969
McKinley Avenue Barn - 1981
Iris Drzewiecki - 2004
The Alhambra night club - 1940's
Springville Series - B.R. & P. Railroad Station
Springville Series - North Buffalo Street
Springville Series - South Buffalo Street
Springville Series - Post Office Mural
Beck Hall & the Holland Land Office Museum  

 



 

 

 
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