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Map of Niagara River or streights between the lakes Erie and Ontario, map (1765)
Map of the western part of the state of New York, 1823, detail (Vance, NYPL)
The War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier, book (Babcock, 1927)
Moss Island and the Hermit of the Falls, excerpt (pp68-69, Burke's Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls, 1855)
Niagara Falls Power Company - Information for Visitors, book (1907)
The Niagara Frontier- Embracing Sketches of its Early History, and Indian, French and English Local Names, book (c.1865)
Gillie Machine Co., illustrated ad (Tonawanda City Directory, 1903)
Couple, cabinet card photo (Clench)
Richardson Boat company, map detail (1951)
Thompson Ice Cream Co., photo ad, (N. Tonawanda City Directory, 1907)
Thomas Music House, 84 Webster, ad (N. Tonawanda City Directory, 1907)
The World's Best Musical Instruments, stamped F. R. Wurlitzer (1916).
Rand Visible Index catalog, Rand Company (c1914)
Polish pupils taken care of after Polish school destroyed by fire, article (Tonawanda News, 1919-03-25
Old-timers' mistrust and jealousies blocked merger of Tonawandas, article (Tonawanda NEWS, 1948-07-21)
Niagara Hotel and the unreliable stagecoach, article excerpt (1833-09)
Irate farmers drive gypsies from stronghold, article (Tonawanda News, 1905-08-07)
Bridge nightmare comes true, article (Tonawanda News, 1961-03-13)
Adamite Abrasive Co., letterhead (1914)
Petit Creek, map detail (1837)
Genesee Lands with County Subdivisions, map (1829?)
City of North Tonawanda, map (N. Tonawanda City Directory, 1903)
Tonawanda Power Company, bill (1929)
Payne defeated, Republicans won at North Tonawanda, article (Daily Cataract, 1898-03-09)
On guard! Buffalo's 65th guards Tonawanda Island from striking Poles, article (Buffalo News, 1893-06-19)
Niagara River houseboat, Sour Spring Grove, Grand Island, photo (1897)
New (Felton) High School dedicated, article (Tonawanda News, 1901-09-06)
N. Tonawanda, Lockport have similar histories, article (Clarence O. Lewis, Lockport Union Sun and Journal, 1957-05-24
Martinsville asks police protection, article (Tonawanda News, 1907-06-04)
Man with badge, cabinet card (Torrey, c.1900)
Harry Dragan, 206 East Ave., Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (1927-09-22)
Gypsies at Gratwick, article (Tonawanda News, 1907-10-05)
Former J & T Charlton, fire house location on Thompson near tracks (Google satellite)
Former Dreamland, 540 Oliver (2008)
Former Artizan, Christmas colors, photo (Dennis Reed Jr., 2025-12-25)
Fire Chief Fred Knight praised, Old Log Cabin, article (Tonawanda News, 1934-04-18)
Supervisor J. T. Schmidt moves brick house from Oliver to his property, article (Tonawanda News, 1908-04-28)
J. T. Schmidt victim of murderous attack, article (Tonawanda News, 1913-12-08)
J. T. Schmidt dies at home, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-03-11)
J. T. Schmidt's Cafe, Oliver Street, postcard (c.1900)
J & T Charlton, map detail (1893)
Heart failure claims Mrs. Augusta Schnmidt, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-04-13)
1099 Oliver (2024 Google)
The Schooner Tonawanda, postcard (c1890).
The Schooner Tonawanda, photo (c1890)
The Lumber War - Views of Tonawanda Island, article (Buffalo Illustrated Express, 1893-06-25)
Stella Perew, 46 Sweeney, obit (Tonawanda News, 1947-03-08)
Skidoo, kids, curfew whistle, article (Tonawanda News, 1907-06-01)
Scheme to fill in Little River, 1907, article (Tonawanda News, 1981-10-08)
Scanlan claims State Ditch rights, article (Albany Argus, 1891-06-18)
Rose Coal, 217 Oliver, illustrated ad (Tonawanda News, 1935-04-23)
Postcard from Addie, front (1917-09-20)
Girl, R.J. Clench, cabinet card (c1880)
Early barges in the river, North Tonawanda, cabinet card (c.1890)
Thatch Roofs - Creo-Dipt excerpted catalog (1919)
Tonawandas postcard set (c1908).
Tied up for winter, canal boats on the Erie Canal, Goose Island, photo (Historical Society of the Tonawandas, c. 1895)
N. Tonawanda, Lockport have similar histories, article (Clarence O. Lewis, Lockport Union Sun and Journal, 1957-05-25
Woman arrested in raid, article (Tonawanda News, 1935-07-01)
Sought council action against raids on island, article (Tonawanda News, 1934-07-18)
Skull broken in quarrel, Joseph Perew, article (Tonawanda News, 1912-05-21)
Show cause order issued in drive to close resorts, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-04-08)
Marohn victom of surly gang, Goose Island, article 1 of 2 (Tonawanda News, 1912-08-26)
Lid clamoed down tight on Goose Island by police, article (Tonawanda News, 1933-11-15)
Investigate graft in vice area here, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-05-13)
Indictiment of another ex-deputy sheriff sought, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-06-04)
Goose Island bears deserted appearance, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-03-10)
Fort Niagara soldiers in fight on Goose Island, article (Tonawanda News, 1917-11-02)
Disorderly house raided by police, 12 Chestnut, article (Tonawanda News, 1912-09-24)
Chief Marohn stages raid, takes woman into custody, article (Tonawanda News, 1935-04-24)
Barge Canal to enter river at Tonawanda Creek's mouth, not Goose Island, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-06-06)
Attempt made to kill woman, Ada Lynch of Goose Island, article (Tonawanda News, 1916-05-04)
14 houses in Goose Island section ordered padlocked, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-10-29)
Tonawanda sheds its blight, article with photos (1966-05-13)
Chestnut Street, Meet Your Street, article (1969-10)
Goose Island, cemetery (Tonawanda Burying Grounds?), map detail (1866)
Warren's request refused by Tonawanda alderman, article (Tonawanda News, 1933-11-21)
Tonawanda OK says sheriff, article (Tonawanda News, 1921-01-26)
The paper plant, location to Goose Island, article (Tonawanda News, 1902-10-13)
Sheriff threatens cleanup of Goose Island conditions, article (Tonawanda News, 1925-06-10)
Seek injunction order against local resorts, Perew property itemized, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-03-11)
Police chief OKs Goose Island in personal probe, article (Tonawanda News, 1925-06-12)
Perew's People's Hotel, ad (Tonawanda City Directory, 1903)
Number of saloons decrease in decade, article (Tonawanda News, 1912-10-14)
Mayor says vice hasn't a chance, Goose Island already reformed, article (Tonawanda News, 1921-01-26)
Mayor objects to actions by sheriff's men, article (Tonawanda News, 1934-07-16)
Hoefert warns habitues of Goose Island district, article (Tonawanda News, 1936-03-11)
Goose Island recalled as "Silk Stocking" district, article (Tonawanda News, 1925-06-13)
Goose Island probe planned, alleged reason for Sheriff Tyler's wrath, article (Tonawanda News, 1925-06-09)
Goose Island demolition, photos (c.1966, via BuffaloStories)
Canal made Tonawanda lusty town in 19th Century, article (Tonawanda News, 1959-07-20)
Boys must keep off Goose Island for 90 days, 41 Tonawanda Street, article (Tonawanda News, 1912-03-18)
Matthews, Northrup & Co.'s new map of the city of North Tonawanda, Niagara Co., N.Y. (1891)
Matthews, Northrup & Co.'s new map of the city of North Tonawanda, Niagara Co., N.Y. (1891).jpg
History of Erie County, Chapter XL, Town of Tonawanda (pp 412-426, c1883)
George P. Smith of Tonawanda, State Ditch, article (Buffalo News, 1891-06-19)
Erie Canal flood washes away an acre of land, notice (Boston Recorder, 1843-04-27)
Era of national speculation laid heavy hand on Tonawandas, article (George W. Millener, Tonawanda News, 1941-10-30
Dr. Jesse Locke whips man playing possum at tavern, article (Boston Cultivator, 1843-03-04)
Downtown Village of Tonawanda, guard lock, map detail (1837)
Ancestry and descendants of Henry Perkins Smith and Christiana (Long) Smith (Compiled 1958)
Agricultural Tour No.4, Tonawanda, article (Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal, 1837-06-17)
Mechanical Man, Perew (left), photo (HST p-7658, c1922)
Tonawandas Once Lumber Center, article (Carence O. Lewis, Niagara Falls Gazette, 1965-03-31)
Tonawandas Once Lumber Center, article (Carence O. Lewis, Niagara Falls Gazette, 1965-03-31).pdf
Various tokens (c.1965)
Tonawanda Island for a fishing and sporting club, article (On Dits in Sporting Circles, 1844-04-13)
Tonawanda Island former picnic resort, article, Clarence O. Lewis (Niagara Falls Gazette, 1965-03-24
Tonawanda Island former picnic resort, article, Clarence O. Lewis (Niagara Falls Gazette, 1965-03-24).png
Sad Reversal of Fortunes, Hezekiah Mosby (Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Christian Secretary, 1839-05-17)
Tonawanda Village and Town History, transcription (from History of Buffalo and Erie County, Chapter XL, pp 412-426, 1884)
Frontier Beer, label collection (1941)
Gazetteer and business directory of Niagara County for 1869 (Wheatfield excerpts) (1869)
White Star Hotel, seen from Tonawanda Power Co construction (HST, Archive P-2471, 1928-08-
Riverside Chemical Company, brochure (c.1958)
NT Farmers Market (NTmarket.org, c.1911)
Niagara Hudson News - Tonawanda, feature article (1947-05)
First North Tonawanda settler arrived in 1809, article (Niagara Falls Gazette, Clarence O. Lewis, 1965-03-10)
Lumber City's early days noted, article (Clarence O. Lewis, Niagara Gazette, 1965-04-07)
Frederick B. Durkee Memorial Bridge over the Tonawanda Harbor, history presentation (GPI, 2015)
DeGraff expansion, photo (Tonawanda News, 1964-12-31).jpg
Police and T-NT streaker, photo (1979-11
Sheriff Tyler warns Tonawanda officials to purge Goose Island at once or county will take hand, article and photos, transcribed (Buffalo Courier, 1925-06-11)
Beechwater, "The Haunted Camp," with 65th regiment, photo article detail (Buffalo Morning Express, 1893-06-25)
Tonawanda Island settled in 1819, Mile Reserve lots, Daniel Webster - article and transcription (Clarence O. Lewis, Niagara Gazette, 1965-03-17)
Tonawanda Island, etching (Sangster, c.1887)
History of Tonawanda Island - Douglas P. Taylor
History of Tonawanda Island - Douglas P. Taylor.docx
Cartor map of the Genesee, map (1798)
Buffalo Bolt and environs, aerial photo (From War Effort magazine, c.1945)
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. Annual Dinner, Chicago, photo (1943-05-07)
Employees working, Wurlitzer?, photo (from Deborah Gallagher Marshall, c.1945)
Employees eating, Wurlitzer?, photo (from Deborah Gallagher Marshall)
Costly parsonage for Father Letocha, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-07-21)
Sharp Turn, Auto Wheel, ad (1920)
Gliderole, Buffalo Sled Company, photo (c.2023)
Buffalo Sled C., Gliderole, postcard (c1918)
Auto Wheel Coaster, No. 2, photo (c. 2024)
Auto Wheel, The Day after Christmas, ad (1919)
Auto Wheel, A Happy Boy, ad (1917)
North Tonawanda, description (Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Niagara County, New York, 1892 (pp.108-110)
Tonawanda Island description, N. P. Willis (Ephemera, Complete Works of N. P. Willis, c. 1850), transcription
Acres burned, Weston, article (Lockport Journal, 1894-12-24)
Buffalo Bolt and environs, aerial photo (From War Effort magazine, c.1945)
Under martial law - The state of affairs in the Tonawandas, article with photos, transcription (Buffalo Morning Express, 1893-06
Tonawanda Island, Its Origins and Early Occupants, article and transcription (Buffalo Courier, 1887-10-09)
No longer roam house - White mansion torn down, article, transcription (Tonawanda News, 1907-04-08)
Vandervoorts of Sweeney Street, three articles by Jane R. Penvose, transcriptions (Tonawanda News, 1982-05-28)
White, Stephen J. (?-?)
Wurlitzer salespeople, Watch Wurlitzer extend its leadership, photo (Salt Lake City Tribune, 1946-01-07)
Wurlitzer PianOrchestra, Brill's Hotel, Philadelphia, postcard (1915).
Wurlitzer letter to U. S. Indian School, letterhead (1931-01-02)
Wurlitzer Esplanade, postcard (c1940)
Wurlitzer, Ohio, ink drawing (1875).
Wurlitzer, NT, photo (1956).
Tonophone, illustration (c1900)
Consolidation questions and answers, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-06-14)
Consolidation is voted down, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-06-15)
Tonawanda, transcription (pp8-9, Burke's Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls, 1855)
Mansion house and Indian Mound on Tonawanda Island, map detail (1837)
Burke's Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls, book (1855)
Buffalo Sled Company correspondence on axle replacement for Auto Wheel Coaster (1920)
Two holdup men caught, Ironton youths, article 1 of 2 (Tonawanda News 1919-10-03)
North Tonawanda Land Company ad (Tonawanda News, c.1893)
More houses in the manufacturing district, Ironton Land Co., article (Buffalo Courier, 1895-06-12)
Meeting of North Tonawanda's Big Land Company, article (Buffalo Courier, 1895-06-13)
Oliver, Francis J. (1777 - 1858)
Chart of Tonawanda Harbor, with villages of Tonawanda and Whitehaven (1837)
Will break ground for new church in Ironton Sunday, OLC, article Tonawanda News, 1927-09-28)
Several deaths from influenza, 3 in Ironton, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-10-11)
Going to Ironton, 18 acres of Carr farm purchased by Plumb, Burdick and Barnard nut and bolt works, article (Buffalo Courier, 1891-08-08)
Fine laboratory at the iron and steel works, article (Buffalo Courier, 1896-07-06)
Dom Polski-sponsored tax gathering to be interpreted in Polish, article (Tonawanda News, 1935-05-31)
Whiskey still boils over and firemen are summoned, Ironton, article (Tonawanda News, 1921-09-09)
River Road and Wheatfield, Ironton section, map detail (1886)
Ransomville farmer trades for Ironton moonshine, fined, article (Tonawanda News, 1931-09-01)
Quarantine is being broken, what can we expect of Ironton, article (Tonawanda News, 1919-11-12)
Organ-grinder's monkey harrassed in Ironton, article (Buffalo Express, 1898-07-03)
Objected to cow grazing on lawn, Ironton, article (Tonawanda News, 1917-07-21)
Mention of maps filed at Niagara County Clerk, article (1897-12-13)
Ironton Athletic Club, School No.7 gymnasium, article (Tonawanda News, 1933-01-13)
Former Hungarian Church, 1st and Oliver, photos (Dennis Reed Jr, 2008)
Former Baptist church Oliver, becomes first OLC, photo (1903)
Five new cases from Ironton, article (Tonawanda News, 1919-11-12)
Fifty gallon still seized - 15th ave, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-06-10)
Child not born with two heads, Ironton, article (Tonawanda news, 1921-10-20)
Car burglar shot dead by railroad detective, Ironton Pole, article (Tonawanda News, 1914-06-04)
Avenues (Ironton), map detail (1893)
20 boys nabbed for damage to Ironton school, article (Tonawanda News, 1925-09-03)
A History of the Riviera Theatre (by Bob Sieben) (c.1
Buffalo Bolt, Buffalo Pumps, Gilmore School, etc., aerial photo postcard (Daniel Kancar, c1947)
Leading business men of twin cities urge voters to ratify consolidation, article and transcription (Tonawanda News, 1920-06-14).
Woman's form floats in air, article (Rome Daily Sentinel, 1920-04-09)
Owner of haunted house has many tenders of help, article (Batavia Daily News, 1920-04-19)
Many seek glimpse of ghost at Falls, article (Buffalo News, 1920-10-10)
Laying the ghost, article and transcription (Niagara Gazette, 1920-04-07)
Ghost story part of a merger propaganda, article (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, 1920-06-15)
Herschell-Spillman improved riding gallery postcard
Richardson Boats demolition, photo set (Dennis Reed Jr, 2024-06-12)
Buffalo Express pictorial, 1891, article and partial transcription
16-18 Webster, postcard detailm (c1910)
Invitation to Hunt a Ghost, article and transcription (Tonawanda News, 1920-04-14)
Ghost hunting in the Twin Cities, article (Lockport Union-Sun and Journal, 1920-04-12)
Ghostbreaker is eager to tackle Tonawandas' jobs, article and transcription (Buffalo Express, 1920-04-12)
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