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Elephants and Trainer
... trainer before going into the circus arena near downtown Buffalo back in the 1930s. View full size. Location of Photo Based ... of the location and layout of the houses to the 1894 Buffalo Atlas here . I believe the houses in the background are 36 ... 
 
Posted by BflJake - 01/04/2012 - 11:43am -

Elephants pose for a photo with their trainer before going into the circus arena near downtown Buffalo back in the 1930s. View full size. Location of PhotoBased on earlier photos of the same event, the circus was no doubt housed in the old Broadway Auditorium at Broadway and Potter (now Nash). From a comparison of the location and layout of the houses to the 1894 Buffalo Atlas here. I believe the houses in the background are 36 through 48 Potter (now Nash) street. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Three Creek Post Office, Idaho
... Hole, and another, in Johnson county, 15 miles south of Buffalo. It's more likely to be the place. Three Creek Postoffice I ... 
 
Posted by Maurice24 - 05/06/2013 - 5:48pm -

A post office in Idaho after the turn of the century (1920s). The town doesn't exist now. This is a card in a relative's photo collection from one of their friends. Three Creek ranchThere are two Three Creek (and not Creak, according to the sign of the building) ranches in Wyoming. One near Jackson Hole, and another, in Johnson county, 15 miles south of Buffalo. It's more likely to be the place. Three Creek PostofficeI found a fellow that told me where it was. It is in Idaho and the remains still exist. I will have to locate the e-mail with his information and post it later. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Photo Shoot: 1974
... morning photo shoot with 3 friends on the back streets of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo's old buildings, train stations and docks were a popular choice for our ... 
 
Posted by gblawson - 10/12/2011 - 11:26am -

A Sunday morning photo shoot with 3 friends on the back streets of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo's old buildings, train stations and docks were a popular choice for our shoots. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Elephants in the Snow
... this may be Nash St. just off of Broadway near downtown Buffalo in the 1930s. Just above the large elephant's back you can see a sign that reads "Buffalo's Best Cup of Coffee." This was the slogan of the Deco Restaurant chain ... 
 
Posted by BflJake - 01/04/2012 - 11:42am -

Some elephants have a chat with their trainer before entering the circus arena. I've been told that this may be Nash St. just off of Broadway near downtown Buffalo in the 1930s. Just above the large elephant's back you can see a sign that reads "Buffalo's Best Cup of Coffee." This was the slogan of the Deco Restaurant chain that I remember from when I was a kid in the early 1960s. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Circus Parade
... photo is of a circus parade in the mid- to late-1930s in Buffalo. There are some interesting advertising signs visible, like the one for ... Parlor" with "Mexihot" hamburgers for 10 cents. Many older Buffalo residents will recognize the "QueenO Beverages" sign. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by BflJake - 01/04/2012 - 11:38am -

This photo is of a circus parade in the mid- to late-1930s in Buffalo. There are some interesting advertising signs visible, like the one for auto painting starting at $12, or "Ira's Chili Parlor" with "Mexihot" hamburgers for 10 cents. Many older Buffalo residents will recognize the "QueenO Beverages" sign. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Christmas in Toledo: c. 1924
... - It's been at least a dozen years since "Christmas in Buffalo: c. 1910." My Grandparents (Albert and Hedwig Happel) have had five ... 
 
Posted by bhappel - 12/08/2009 - 2:59pm -

Toledo, OH (approx 1924) - It's been at least a dozen years since "Christmas in Buffalo: c. 1910." My Grandparents (Albert and Hedwig Happel) have had five children and buried the two oldest. In addition to the tinsel laden tree we see the doll house that my Grandfather built for his two daughters (Emily seated and Lee snuggling with her mother). Their older brother Hermann stands behind the doll house. Many years later my father (Anton, born several years after this photo was taken) renovated the doll house for his daughters. It is currently in storage in my basement awaiting the day that I or my son renovate it so that another generation can play with it. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Christmas)
Central Station: 1901
... View full size. Pan-American Exposition Held in Buffalo from May 1 through November 2, 1901, attended by eight million ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/24/2018 - 1:57pm -

Circa 1901. "Illinois Central Depot, 12th Street and Park Row, Chicago." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size. Pan-American ExpositionHeld in Buffalo from May 1 through November 2, 1901, attended by eight million visitors. Notable as the location of President McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6 at the Temple of Music (in a night-time view, below). (The Gallery, Chicago, DPC, Railroads)
Midland King: 1910
... William and Port Arthur, to Port Colborne, Ontario, or Buffalo, for transshipment to smaller vessels that would bring the grain to ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/14/2018 - 3:45pm -

Circa 1910. "Freighter Midland King, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. The Midland Kingwas the second "upper laker" built for the Canadian Great Lakes grain trade, too large to navigate the old Welland and St. Lawrence canals. Launched 19 August 1903 by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., at Collingwood, Ontario, for the Midland Navigation Company, Ltd., it delivered grain from the Canadian lakehead, the twin ports of Fort William and Port Arthur, to Port Colborne, Ontario, or Buffalo, for transshipment to smaller vessels that would bring the grain to Montreal for export, or to Erie Canal barges or eastern railroad connections. On its return trips it carried coal, especially to fuel the Canadian Pacific and, after 1918, Canadian National, the railroads that brought the grain to the lakehead. It is receiving such a cargo in this photograph. The vessel was scrapped at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1937. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Cleveland, DPC, Railroads)
Charlotte Edith Anderson (Monture)
... joined the War, she signed up, too. She served at Buffalo Base Hospital 23, in Vittelles, France. She returned home to Six ... 
 
Posted by Mudhooks - 11/05/2011 - 11:00am -

My ex-husband's grandmother, Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture, in her AEF Red Cross nurse's uniform. "Andy" served in France during WWI. Although she was a Mohawk from the Six Nations Reserve, in Southern Ontario, she served with the American Forces. She was the first Native woman in Canada to be trained as a nurse. However, because of racial attitudes in the day, no hospital in Canada would train an "Indian". She applied and was accepted at the New Rochelle Hospital, in New York, and trained there as a nurse, becoming a school nurse. When the Americans joined the War, she signed up, too. She served at Buffalo Base Hospital 23, in Vittelles, France. She returned home to Six Nations after the war, serving her people as a nurse until 1955. She died just short of her 106th birthday, in 1996. It was a privilege to have known her. (As a side note, she had the opportunity to dance with Eddie Rickenbacker when he visited the hospital. She said he was "a bit full of himself"...) View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Dad on USS Little Rock: 1947
... She Survives The USS Little Rock is on display at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park. She has been there since ... 
 
Posted by Agr32 - 12/30/2009 - 7:47pm -

My father, age 17, training aboard the light cruiser USS Little Rock as a member of the Naval Reserve, in 1947. The photo was taken by a shipmate somewhere between Newport RI and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He eventually transferred to the army, he now admits, because the "crackerjack" uniform he is wearing in the photo made him feel like a kid in his jammies. That, and an opportunity to enter Officers Candidate School. But mostly the jammies thing. View full size. She SurvivesThe USS Little Rock is on display at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park. She has been there since the late 1970s. Good to knowThanks for the info. I'd love to visit it, or maybe my kids will someday. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
The Brick Buick: 1949
... had a job with the Pennsy Railroad) before she moved to Buffalo to study nursing. Both my aunts and their husbands were buried out of ... 
 
Posted by Donald Struke - 12/07/2018 - 11:14am -

My sister and brother in a 1949 photo, on Second Avenue in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Not many years later, at 16, I demolished this Buick (and please take notes if you'd like to demolish a Buick) skidding on wet streetcar tracks -- too much speed might have been involved -- and nailing a brick porch next door to Sacred Heart Convent on Sixth Avenue. A woman appeared (the Madonna?), shouting "You've wrecked!" and because a few more bricks were thudding onto the hood, I said, "I believe I'm still wrecking." View full size. Small WorldIndeed! Altoona was my mom's hometown when her family came to the United States (my granddad had a job with the Pennsy Railroad) before she moved to Buffalo to study nursing. Both my aunts and their husbands were buried out of Sacred Heart and one of them (and my grandparents) lived in a house on 2nd Avenue. I was going to say that in addition to speed and trolley tracks, the hills in that burg might have contributed to your wreck as well (Altoona had some GREAT sledding hills in the winter) but a quick look at the Google street view disabused me of that notion. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Erie County Savings Bank (Colorized)
Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Erie County Savings Bank, Niagara Street." 8x10 ... 
 
Posted by kdtop - 09/20/2010 - 8:06am -

Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Erie County Savings Bank, Niagara Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing. The original on Shorpy can be seen here: https://www.shorpy.com/node/8536. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
Aircraft Mechanic Class, 1966
... that. Some of the names on the back are: Greg Hofelich, Buffalo, NY; Mark Beam, Beaverton, OR; Tommy Kreih, St. Paul, MN; John DeVeitio ... 
 
Posted by johndxmurphy - 09/20/2011 - 12:48am -

November or December 1966 at Shepherd Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, TX. The aircraft is a C-97 and used for training Reciprocating (Recips) Aircraft Mechanics. I never saw any of these guys after that. Some of the names on the back are: Greg Hofelich, Buffalo, NY; Mark Beam, Beaverton, OR; Tommy Kreih, St. Paul, MN; John DeVeitio (or DeVeitlo) who signed as 'John Henry' Portland, OR; and me, John Murphy, Meridian, MS. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Smoke Signal: 1900
Circa 1900. "Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show." 8x10 glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/27/2019 - 3:27pm -

Circa 1900. "Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show." 8x10 glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier. View full size. (The Gallery, Gertrude Kasebier, Native Americans, Portraits)
The Wolak Family: c. 1921
... Helen Wolak, shown here in this circa 1921 photo taken in Buffalo, New York, with their five children (L to R), Bill, Stanley, Jenny, ... 
 
Posted by Art - 02/10/2010 - 5:47pm -

My Grandparents, John and Helen Wolak, shown here in this circa 1921 photo taken in Buffalo, New York, with their five children (L to R), Bill, Stanley, Jenny, Marcel, and Adam(my Father). John and Helen arrived at Ellis Island in 1911 from Poland, lived briefly near Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in western New York, before settling permanently in New Britain, Connecticut in the 1920s. View full size. American DreamWhat a handsome family. I'm curious as to what your grandfather did for a living. They look rather prosperous. But then that's why he came to America - to achieve the American Dream. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Watch the Birdie: 1957
... in my grandparents' yard, Hamburg, New York (south of Buffalo). My grandfather owned a lot of land and had to mow a huge yard--hence ... 
 
Posted by MarkN - 01/25/2013 - 8:08pm -

Another of my father's 1957 Kodachromes. Taken in my grandparents' yard, Hamburg, New York (south of Buffalo). My grandfather owned a lot of land and had to mow a huge yard--hence the impressive mowing machine. Behind the badminton area is the clay tennis court, and behind that, the "rock garden" with a Japanese maple. Summer picnics there were an event. View full size. Somebody went to MexicoAnd all we got were these lousy sombreros. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Our Family: 1946
My Mother's family, Buffalo, 1946. Mom seated center. Not long after this photo my Aunt, sitting ... 
 
Posted by PinkandCharcoal - 02/03/2011 - 6:56am -

My Mother's family, Buffalo, 1946. Mom seated center. Not long after this photo my Aunt, sitting on my grandfather's lap, would be stricken with Polio. She fought her whole life to be "normal" and to be treated with respect. She passed away this past summer. View full size. She'll be needing that bright smileHow cruelly ironic that your aunt, the child with the biggest smile, would be so terribly afflicted. Her eyes convey a bravery which, from your writing, apparently served her well. She must have been possessed of a great heart. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Bath Baby: c.1910
1910 or 1911: Buffalo, NY, digitized from a 4x5" glass negative. This is either Ursula (b ... 
 
Posted by bhappel - 04/22/2011 - 1:24pm -

1910 or 1911: Buffalo, NY, digitized from a 4x5" glass negative. This is either Ursula (b 6/8/1910, d 9/16/1910) or Johanna (b 7/23/11, d 2/11/1920) at bathtime. In preparation for afterwards, a safety pin has been placed inside the round lid from the container of cotton. I imagine that it is a block of square soap in the saucer. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Home on the range
Oh, give me a home Where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard ... 
 
Posted by greatmolinski - 08/21/2009 - 12:18pm -

Oh, give me a home Where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard A discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Sharp Dressed Men
... grandfather on the right. The photo was labeled "Labor Day/Buffalo, NY." I love the attitude of him and his friend. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by PinkandCharcoal - 01/24/2011 - 10:09am -

My maternal grandfather on the right. The photo was labeled "Labor Day/Buffalo, NY." I love the attitude of him and his friend. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Detroit Odd Fellows: 1968
... Monroe Streets in Detroit, Michigan. Today it houses a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. This is a scan of a Kodachrome transparency ... 
 
Posted by Mike_G - 02/17/2017 - 8:17pm -

The building on the right is the former Odd Fellows Temple, built in 1874 at the northeast corner of Randolph and Monroe Streets in Detroit, Michigan. Today it houses a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. This is a scan of a Kodachrome transparency that was taken in July 1968 from the roof of Crowley's Department Store, which was demolished in 1978. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Unidentified Member of Bement Family
... family album was made at the Anderson Studio in Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska was probably made somewhere between the late 1870s and ... 
 
Posted by Doc Rock - 04/13/2011 - 9:38am -

This photograph from the Ruba Bement family album was made at the Anderson Studio in Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska was probably made somewhere between the late 1870s and early 1890s. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
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