Act to Incorporate the City of Buffalo, passed April 20, 1832

Lithograph portrait of Ebenezer Johnson, 1832

Painting: Johnson Cottage by William John Wilgus, 1833

Map of the City of Buffalo, 1835

L.P. Crary Census page, 1832

Receipt for printing & binding Buffalo Directory, 1832

Directory for the City of Buffalo, 1832

Painting: Buffalo From Lake Erie c.1836

1832 page from Maurice Kingsley's history of Buffalo Harbor

Steele & Faxon's Buffalo Almanac for 1832

Petition regarding Buffalo & Niagara Rail Road, 1835

Bill of Lading for whiskey shipped via Schooner, Sheldon Thompson & Co, 1835

A. B. Meech & Co. advertising card, Erie Canal transportation, c.1830

C. H. Coe & Co. advertising card, stage coach line, 1831

Stray Animal Notices, 1832

Cataract Fire Engine Company No. 1 minutes, 1832

Handwritten appointment of Millard Fillmore as law agent, 1832

Lithograph of Eagle Tavern, 1825

Invitation to New Year's ball at Eagle Tavern, 1832

Engraved portrait of Daniel Webster

Letter from Daniel Webster, 1833

Report of the Commissioner of Common Schools, 1832

Report on cholera to the Buffalo Board of Health, 1832

Letter regarding the outbreak of cholera, 1832



Exhibit Credits:

This virtual tour was made possible by a generous donation from the 2004 J. Warren Perry and Charles Donald Perry Memorial Fund, administered by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, which supports digitization of original documents from the Historical Society’s Research Library. Images in the 1832 project are all in the collection of The Buffalo History Museum. The images were selected and transcribed by Patricia Virgil, Director of Library and Archives; the virtual tour was created by Susan Eck.

 

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