The Realm of Music, North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, article and transcriptions (Tonawanda News, 1894-01-04).jpg
description: Transcription by Dana Johnson: The Realm Of Music Where harmony producing instruments are manufactured Home of the organ works Only industry of this kind established in the United States Everything About the Institution Known - …the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory Now Located at East Avenue – How This Novel Industry Came to Be Added to City’s Attractions - The Well-Known Firm of Armitage, Herschell & Co. Projected the Enterprise - … Brought It to a Successful Completion - A Brilliant Future Before It. __st on the outskirts of North Tonawanda awaiting with confident expectation the onward march of time to raise from a little hamlet to more pretentious Proportions, stands the pretty suburb of _?_ city, Sawyer Creek or more properly East avenue, and here, like a pioneer on the edge of civilization is located an elegant three story brick structure of hansom appearance over which the stars and stripes float gaily on the -breeze. The com_?_lous home of an industry comparatively unfamiliar to the great majority of citizens, but already attaining a world wide reputation under the name of the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory. Although but a few months have passed ___ this novel enterprise was projected _?_ placed in operation under the _?_ management of Mr. E DeKleist it has become one of the most important important industries of our growing city, and with the markets of the whole world in which to dispose of it's products it is destined to achieve an unprecedented success, and make it's name, and consequently the name of North Tonawanda known throughout the civilized globe. No place in the United States is there another industry of this kind, and no place in the world is there one that uses its methods of production which enables this institution to compete successfully with the barrel organ factories of the countries across the sea. Its modus operundi is exclusively its own -- rendered so by the genius and talents of its manager, a large part of the machinery in …
date: 1894-01-04

White House relic to be demolished soon, article (Tonawanda News, 1906-03-17).jpg
description: Description of Daniel Webster's visits, and Uncle Vandervoort's store on Grand Island. A 1982 article claims: "Today, all that remains of its former splendor is a small piece of the black marble from the fireplace mantel preserved among the Historical Society's artifacts."
date: 1906-03-17

South Niagara Street (showing Erie canal), postcard (1910-09-21).jpg
date: 1910-09-21

Tonawanda Iron will close NT plant, 160 jobs involved, article (Tonawanda News, 1972-05-31).jpg
date: 1972-05-31

Tonawanda International Paper, booklet excerpts (c.1956).jpg
date: 1956

Derrick boat to remove Tonawanda dam, postcard (1918-01).jpg
date: 1918-01

Madness - A bankrupt business man takes morphine, article (Tonawanda News, 1896-09-10).jpg
description: Boulton
date: 1896-09-10

Proposed Home Of BPO Elks No 860, postcard (1921).jpg
date: 1921

Wm Gillie Machine Shop, 1886 vs 1893 (Sanborn Insurance Maps).jpg
description: After fire(s).
date: 1893

Wm Gillie Machine Shop, map (Sanborn Insurance Map, 1886).jpg
date: 1886

Tonawanda Engineering Co., map (Sanborn Insurance Map, 1951).jpg
date: 1951

Boulton Carbon Mfg Co, ad (Electrical World, 1893-12).jpg
date: 1893-12

Boulton Carbon Mfg Co, map (Sanborn-Perris, 1893).jpg
date: 1893

Gillie Place, map, plate 43 (Sanborn-Perris, 1893).jpg
date: 1893

Wurlitzer depot, photo, c1930.jpg
date: 1930

Flash Theater, photo ad (City Directory, 1923).jpg
date: 1923

Rattler snake seen in Hotel Lincoln lot, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-06-08).jpg
date: 1920-06-08

Rand on Sweeney about 1960 (Rand ad, Centennial Magazine, 1965).jpg
date: 1960

Martinsville Station, photo (c.1905).jpg
date: 1905

Gillie Machine Company, ad (City Directory, 1923).jpg
date: 1923

American Kardex Company, ad (City Directory, 1923).jpg
date: 1923

Atlas of the Vicinity of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Plates 9-14 (G.M. Hopkins and Co., 1893).jpg
description: Selection of plates showing North Tonawanda and Tonawanda near the Erie Canal.
date: 1893

Sweeney Park, map (Atlas of Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda and Buffalo, NY, G.M. Hopkins and Co., 1893).jpg
date: 1893

Webster Street, numbered Fowler Block and south (2007-10, Google).jpg
date: 2007-10

Twin City Dairy, map (Sanborn, 1951-01).jpg
date: 1951-01

Memorial Pool and Payne Park, map (Sanborn, 1951-01).jpg
date: 1951-01

Gilmore School, map (Sanborn, 1951-01).jpg
date: 1951-01

Buffalo Pumps, Gillie Place, map (Sanborn, 1951-01).jpg
date: 1951-01

Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, Sanborn Insurance map collection, sheets 60-109 (1910-1951).jpg
date: 1951-01

Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, Sanborn Insurance map collection, sheets 1-59 (1910-1951).jpg
description: Higher-res version in Box LOC color version
date: 1951

Step into Beautiful Living, Wurlitzer Park homes catalog (c1958).jpg
date: 1958

Former Artizan Factories, interior photos (2017-05-15).jpg
date: 2017-05-15

Former North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works interior, photo set (2015-06-15).jpg
date: 2015-06-15

Barrel Organ Factory photos and expansion, diagram.jpg
date: 2019

Strand Theater poster by Dennis Reed Jr (2019).jpg
date: 2019

White Eagle at Oliver and 7th, ad (1918-04-27).jpg
date: 1918-04-27

To celebrate anniversary of Polands independence, march to White Eagle, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-05-09).jpg
date: 1918-05-09

Ten years in the priesthood, music and ceremony at Dreamland, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-06-07).jpg
date: 1915-06-07

Sobieski Falcons hold celebration, Polish band marches to Dreamland, article (1915-01-11).jpg
date: 1915-01-11

Protests men carrying guns, Ironton Polish Falcon parade, Dreamland, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-08-23).jpg
date: 1915-08-23

Police stop Sunday movie at Dreamland, Oliver Theater serves injunction on police, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-05-10).jpg
date: 1915-05-10

Poles celebrate Independence Day, article (Tonawanda News, 1917-05-14).jpg
date: 1917-05-14

Operated movie without a license, Dreamland, White Eagle, article (Tonawanda News, 1916-03-23).jpg
date: 1916-03-23

Go to the movies free, ad for Star, Flash, Oliver, Grand, Dreamland (Ton News, 1916-04-05).jpg
date: 1916-04-05

Everybody invited to come to Dreamland, ad (Tonawanda News, 1914-06-22).jpg
date: 1914-06-22

Dreamland, ad (Tonawanda News, 1914-06-30).jpg
date: 1914-06-30

Dont fail to see this, Dreamland, ad (Tonawanda News, 1915-10-13).jpg
date: 1915-10-13

Concert to raise funds for church, Dreamland, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-10-26).jpg
date: 1915-10-26

Concert at Dreamland Theater, ad (Tonawanda News, c1915, 2116).jpg
date: 1915

Come to Dreamland, ad (Tonawanda News, 1914-07-01).jpg
date: 1914-07-01

Calls on Poles here to enlist, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-02-08).jpg
date: 1918-02-08

At the Dreamland, ad (Tonawanda News, 1914-07-31).jpg
date: 1914-07-31

Writ of manadamus served on mayor, Oliver Theatre, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-07-24).jpg
date: 1915-07-24

Would open Sunday show, Oliver Theater will make fight in courts, article (Tonawanda News, 1913-12-12).jpg
date: 1913-12-12

Wheatfield 74 years old, history and name origin, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-05-13).jpg
date: 1910-05-13

Webster Theatre will reopen tonight, ad (Tonawanda News, 1914-06-22).jpg
date: 1914-06-22

Tonawanda gets big paper mill, article (Tonawanda News, 1902-07-05).jpg
date: 1902-07-05

Tomorrow opening night new Oliver Theater, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-11-02).jpg
date: 1910-11-02

Sunday moving picture fight, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-06-05).jpg
date: 1915-06-05

Scenic family Theatre, ad (Tonawanda News, 1908-09-26).jpg
date: 1908-09-26

Lumber City Hall, opera house, ad (1893-09-29).jpg
date: 1893-09-29

Lenox Furniture Factory, 114 Miller, logotype, ad (Tonawanda News, 1958-10-08).png
date: 1958-10-08

Lenox Furniture, 114 Miller, ad (Tonawanda News, 1958-08-07).jpg
date: 1958-08-07

Greetings from the Tonawandas, postcard (c1940).jpg
date: 1940

Famous ice bridge, Niagara Falls, postcard (c1915).jpg
date: 1915

Blue Danube Restaurant, 1093 Oliver, ad (1947).jpg
date: 1947

Big rolling mill and gas works to be built, Buffalo Bolt, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-07-24).jpg
date: 1915-07-24

A hit every time, Ives Ice and Coal, ad (Tonawanda News, 1916-04-04).jpg
date: 1916-04-04

No police action to halt Dreamland or Oliver Theater, article (Buffalo Courier, 1915-05-17).jpg
date: 1915-05-17

Herschell-Spillman on Sweeney about 1900 (Rand ad, Centennial Magazine, 1965).jpg
date: 1900

4-horse power engine and boiler, Armitage Herschell, ad (Tonawanda News, 1894).jpg
date: 1894

Two leading citizens die, Orcutt and Gillie, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-04-20, 0788).jpg
date: 1920-04-20

Twin Fair, photo (c1975).jpg
date: 1975

Tops, ad (1972-05-30).jpg
date: 1972-05-30

Tonawanda & Wheatfield Electric Co., stock specimen 1 (1890).jpg
date: 1890

Stans Motor Sales, logotype, ad (Tonawanda News, 1956-04-13).jpg
date: 1956-04-13

McIntire and Miller Carriages and Wagons, Main and Sweeney, ad (Tonawanda News, 1896).jpg
date: 1896

McCarthy Fruit Market, 206 Oliver, logotype ad (Tonawanda News, 1947).png
date: 1947

Christmas Comes to NT, View of Webster Hotel maybe, photo article (Tonawanda News, 1969-12-18).jpg
date: 1969-12-18

Vaudeville at Park Theater, Scenic Theater discontinues vaudeville, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-02-18).jpg
date: 1910-02-18

Park Theater bill pleases big crowds, article (Tonawanda News, 1910).png
date: 1910

Park Roller Rink and theater, ad (Tonawanda News, 1910).png
date: 1910

Calkins will operate motion picture machine for Park, leaves Scenic, articel (Tonawanda News, 1910-03-03).jpg
date: 1910-03-03

At Park Theater, article (Tonawanda News, 1910).png
date: 1910

100,000 automatic ostrich to be exhibited (Courier-Express, 1927-02-06).jpg
date: 1927-02-06

100 women needed now, ad (Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., 1945-02-22).jpg
date: 1945-02-22

Yacht capsized, Perew, article (Buffalo News, 1900-07-16).jpg
date: 1900-07-16

Stock-selling pair arrested on mayor's tip, article (Buffalo Courier-Express, 1939-03-01).jpg
date: 1939-03-01

Saloons Tipped Off - Tonawandas KKK Establishes New Branch - Buffalo NY Morning Express 1924 - 0585.pdf
date: 1924

Philip Perew sued by United States, article (Tonawanda News, 1905-12-16).jpg
date: 1905-12-16

Philip Perew's scheme, article (Tonawanda News, 1900-02-02).jpg
date: 1900-02-02

Has device to turn torpedoes, article (Tonawanda News, 1917-08-14).jpg
date: 1917-08-14

Gunboat once built at North Tonawanda, seals, Philip Perew, article (Lockport Union-Sun Journal, 1965-04-14).jpg
date: 1965-04-14

Cappola jury discharged, part 1, article (Buffalo Courier-Express, 1937-02-04).jpg
date: 1937-02-04

Big motor boat race, article (Tonawanda News, 1908-10-02).jpg
date: 1908-10-02

A test, invention will be tried in canal, article (Tonawanda News, 1900-01-12).jpg
date: 1900-01-12

1897 NT Football Team placard, North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame (2017).jpg
date: 1897

Oliver Theater, bill (1920-04-06).jpg
date: 1920-04-06

No police action to halt Dreamland or Oliver Theater, article (Buffalo Courier, 1915-05-17).jpg
date: 1915-05-17

New Oliver Theater, ad (Tonawanda News, 1910-11-03).jpg
date: 1910-11-03

Mayor Rand refuses Oliver theatre movies Sunday license, article (Buffalo Courier, 1915-06-03).jpg
date: 1915-06-03

Auto-Wheel fire, photo set (Tonawanda News, 1972-05-31).jpg
date: 1972-05-31

Whisper in Dad's ear, Auto-Wheel, ad (Buffalo Courier, 1916-12-20).jpg
date: 1916-12-20

Tell mother and dad, ad (Everyday Engineering Magazine, 1919-03).jpg
date: 1919-03

Sled concern in area to resume production, article (Buffalo Courier-Express, 1964-09-28).jpg
date: 1964-09-28

R. W. Morgan profile, Auto Wheel new owner and president, article (Buffalo Courier-Express, 1965-01-24).jpg
date: 1965-01-24

Local plant to enlarge, article (Tonawanda News, 1914-03-08).jpg
date: 1914-03-08

Local exhibit, Buffalo Industrial Exhibition, Buffalo Sled and Niagara Silk Mills, article (TEN, 1908-12-17).jpg
date: 1908-12-17

Heres the new Auto-Wheel book-free, ad (Everyday Engineering Magazine, 1919-02).jpg
date: 1919-02

Flames cause 200,000 loss, article (Buffalo News, 1920-02-18).jpg
date: 1920-02-18

Dad gave me an Auto-Wheel, ad (Everyday Engineering Magazine, 1918-08).jpg
date: 1918-08

Come on fellows, join in the fun, ad (Everyday Engineering Magazine, 1918-11).jpg
date: 1918-11

Buffalo Sled production manager taken to asylum, article (Tonawanda News, 1921-05-04).jpg
date: 1921-05-04

Buffalo Sled Co plans to enlarge, article (Tonawanda News, 1915-03-06).jpg
date: 1915-03-06

Buffalo Sled Company has changed its name, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-07-03).jpg
date: 1920-07-03

Buffalo Sled Co. doing wonderfully increased business, sketch of history, article (Buffalo Courier, 1915-12-22).jpg
date: 1915-12-22

Buffalo Sled Co., photo (Ton News, 1970, 6393).jpg
date: 1970

Boys, look at my new Auto-Wheel convertible Roadster, ad (Everyday Engineering Magazine, 1918-09).jpg
date: 1918-09

Auto-Wheel fire, photo set (Tonawanda News, 1972-05-30).jpg
date: 1972-05-30

Auto-Wheel Coaster Club, promotional pennant (c1917).jpg
date: 1917)

Auto-Wheel arouses national interest, ad (Hardware World- Plumbing & Heating, Volume 15).jpg
date: 1918

Arson suspected in NT fire, article (Tonawanda News, 1972-05-30).jpg
date: 1972-05-30

After factories, Buffalo Sled moving, article (Tonawanda News, 1908-10-27).jpg
date: 1908-10-27

Fassett, Theodore S. (1840-1908).jpg
description: Been in lumber trade since 1872. Major lumber dealer ("forwarder") with Fassett & Bellinger. Tonawanda Lumber Association director in 1880. Lumber From "The Lumber City (1891)": FASSETT & BELLINGER - LUMBER FORWARDERS. OFFICE, HAMP BLOCK, COR. MAIN AND YOUNG STREETS. The above house is doubtless the most extensive forwarding concern east of Michigan, their handlings for 1890 reaching the enormous figures of 98,500,000 feet of lumber. The trade was commenced by Goodrich & Bellinger in 1878, Jas. A. Fassett, a native of Albany, who had been in the lumber trade of Tonawanna since 1873, taking Mr. Goodrich's place in 1882. A. A. Bellinger was reared in Tonawanda and served as president of the village for several terms. The firm occupy some 3,000 feet of dockage and over 200 men are required in receiving cargoes of lumber, lath, shingles, etc., at this port, which are at once transferred to canal boats or cars for shipment to eastern points. Messrs. Fassett & Bellinger are experienced lumberman, backed by ample capital, and have gained a marked prominence as receivers and forwarders at this port, thereby assisting in Tonawanda's record as a lumber City. Buys Tonawanda Island in 1883 and covers it in lumber (in collection, I have the date as 1881). Buried in Forest Lawn after a heart attack in his home at 420 Linwood in North Tonawanda. PHOTO: Biographical and Portrait Encyclopedia of Niagara County, 1892.
source: The History of Buffalo, New York Description of Village of Tonawanda, book excerpt (Commerce, Manufactures and Resources of Buffalo and Environs, 1880)
date: 1840
contributor: Larry J. Smith

Girls in Auto-Wheel Coaster, magic lantern slide (c.1920).jpg
date: 1920

Auto Wheel No. 1, ad (Good Hardware, 1923).jpg
date: 1923

Auto Wheel Coaster Wagon, ad (Dennis Reed Jr, 2017)
date: 2017

Auto Wheel, company mark (Dennis Reed Jr, 2017).png
date: 2017

Auto-Wheel Roadster metal sign, reproduction.jpg
date: 2019

Auto-Wheel Fleetwing Racer Sled, photo set (c.1930)
date: 1930

Auto-Wheel Coaster, c1916.jpg
date: 1916

Niagara Scooter, Auto Wheel, Fleetwing, postcard (Buffalo Sled Co., 1919-10-14).jpg
date: 1919-10-14

Auto-Wheel Health Builders for Children, 4-page catalog (c1920).jpg
date: 1920

Former site of Scenic Theater at 40 Webster, map detail (1913).jpg
date: 1913

Scenic Theatre Calkins attempts to bring live bear from three mile creek, article (Tonawanda News, 1907-07-20).jpg
date: 1907-07-20

Scenic Theater repoens with excellent bill, article (Tonawanda News, c1910-04-05).jpg
date: 1910-04-05

Remember the Scenic Theatre, photo from 1900 (Tonawanda News, 1968-10-26).jpg
date: 1900

Eagle Theater to reopen in place of Scenic, Wallenberg, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-08-06).jpg
date: 1910-08-06

Damon and Pythias to be shown at Scenic, article (Tonawanda News, 1908-07-02).jpg
date: 1908-07-02

Change of program at Scenic Theater, article (Tonawanda News, 1910-05-09).jpg
date: 1910-05-09

The Beginning of the NT Tradition, display at North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame (2017).jpg
date: 1897

North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame, sign and building, photo by Dennis Reed Jr (2017).jpg
date: 2017

North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame, front, photo by Dennis Reed Jr (2017).jpg
date: 2017

North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame, exterior, photo by Dennis Reed Jr (2017).jpg
date: 2017

Inductees, North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame, photo (2017).jpg
date: 2017

How Rule Changes Have Shaped the Game, display at the North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame (2017).jpg
date: 2017

Frank Hinkey photo, North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame (2017).jpg
date: 1892

1897 NT Football Team photo, North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame (2017).jpg
date: 1897

Sweeney Estate - Reconaissance Level Survey of Historic Resources of City of North Tonawanda (kta preservation, 2019).pdf
description: A very readable overview of the area's early development from 1600, with special emphasis on early village luminaries in general and the Sweeney family in particular. The urban development of their land, and its use as Pine Woods Park is detailed. HISTORIC OVERVIEW LOCATION The survey area lies in the south portion of the City of North Tonawanda in Niagara County, New York. It is bordered by the New York State Barge Canal Historic District to the south, the Niagara River a few blocks to the west, and other residential and commercial areas of 5 Architectural fabric considers stylistic trends, materiality and construction technology. Reconnaissance Level Survey of Historic Resources Sweeney Estate, City of North Tonawanda 7 North Tonawanda to the north and east. The total area surveyed of the Sweeney Estate is approximately 307.59 acres. HISTORIC TRENDS AND THEMES This section of the report includes a general history of the area as well as a description of the development of the project area documented by historic maps. Archeologists and historians generally accept 1600 CE as the beginning of the Historic period in northeastern North America.6 Iroquoian-speaking Wenro, Neuter, and Erie nations occupied western New York at that time.7 In the 17th century European missionaries, traders, and soldiers arrived in the Great Lakes region. Widespread epidemics and wars followed the introduction of European diseases and the fur trade. Early History The present-day city of North Tonawanda, whose name derived from a Seneca word which translates to ‘swift water,’ was the site of several Indian settlements by 1687. Missionaries and traders were the first Europeans to visit the Niagara Frontier. French and English fur trades competed with one another in the business of trading fur with Native Americans. The various tribes trapped and traded beaver in exchange for guns and iron kettles. The desire to trade with the Europeans in order to acquire weapons and other goods resulted in th…
date: 2019

Thiele's Dairy, bottle, detail (c1970).jpg
date: 1970

Thiele Dairy, bottles.jpg
date: 1960

Sweeney Cemetery placard, photo (2009).png
description: Photo by Dennis Reed Jr
date: 2009

Sweeney Cemetery, photo.png
date: 2018

Judd, G.L., photo of grave in Sweeney Cemetery.png

Johnson, Selden G., photo of grave in Sweeney Cemetery.png

Franklin, Warren, photo of grave in Sweeney Cemetery.png

Felton, Benjamin, photo of grave in Sweeney Cemetery.png

Post Office, North Tonawanda, postcard (1919-10).jpg
date: 1919-10

DeGraff Memorial Hospital, postcard (1917).jpg
date: 1917

Walker Bros and Monroe Jewelers, trade card (c1930).jpg
description: From a reader: "They were established in 1925 and now the shop is located at 84 Webster st....They are known as the 'Clock Doctor.'"
date: 1930

North Tonawanda map (Centennial magazine, 1965).jpg
date: 1965

Phil Perew home at 46 Sweeney, map detail (1908).jpg
date: 1908

Walking automaton is a mechanical wonder, article (Buffalo Courier, 1900-09-02).jpg
description: Walking Automaton is a Mechanical Wonder ---------------- This Man May Walk For Years Without Rest or Sleep, Yet Never Feel Fatigue or Need For Food or Drink ----------------- Tonawanda Man Invents a Graven Image in the Form of a Man That Does Not Live, But Gives All Evidence of Life ----------------- May tour the continent to advertise the Pan-American A walking automaton has been invented by Louis Philip Perew of Tonawanda, which eclipses, so far as known, any other similar invention ever made. Of heroic proportions this mechanical wonder is shaped in very way like a man. Not only can it walk but it's eyes roll, it's head turns and all it's joints move naturally. It can even talk. To test the powers of the giant fully, it is proposed to walk him across the continent accompanied by only two human companions. It is expected that other and similar walking men will be made and toured through the country in order to advertise the Pan-American Exposition. A man that walks is a common sight. A dead man that walks is occasionally beheld by sailors on a Saturday Night. But a man that walks long distance that never was alive is something so unheard of that it is hard to believe that such a one could exist. But exist it does, and walk it can, as any doubters will soon be able to see. For nine years Louis Philip Perew labored with his body and his brain at a huge undertaking. Now the work is finished and he has a graven image made of wood and metal, in the likeness of a man. And it walks! Seven feet five inches high, of excellent proportions, this mechanical man is to every appearance a human being. He is well formed, of heroic stature, and has a dignified military carriage. He has the quick step of the perfect heel and toe walker. His features are of the typical American and so natural that one would imagine them of natural flesh instead of aluminum. He is dressed in the height of fashion in a white duck outing suit and cap of the latest shape. Eyes of perfect blue roll in t…
date: 1900-09-02

Tolerable Tales notes about Perew, article (Ton News, 1983-07-09).jpg
date: 1983-07-09

Scale model of Normandie rides seas, photo article (Tonawanda News, 1938-02-07).jpg
date: 1938-02-07

Philip Perew Dies of Heart Attack, obit (Tonawanda News, 1946-12-07).jpg
date: 1946-12-07

Perew, Philip (1862–1946).jpg
description: See also his Wikipedia entry.
date: 1862

Perew leaves for Lockport on boat with Holyland, article (1921-08-25).jpg
date: 1921-08-25

Patents relate to aerial navigation, article (Buffalo Courier, 1910-06-26).jpg
date: 1910-06-26

Offers to buy Long Bridge, article (Tonawanda News, 1916-11-15).jpg
date: 1916-11-15

Mechanical device to portray life of Christ, article (Tonawanda News, 1919-06-21, 0745.jpg
date: 1919-06-21

Let contract for a bridge, Cpt Perew pontoon, article (Tonawanda News, 1916-10-27).jpg
date: 1916-10-27

Invents device picturing life in Bible days, article (Buffalo News, 1919-06-21).jpg
date: 1919-06-21

False arrest suit planned by aged man, article (Buffalo Courier Express, 1931-07-21).jpg
date: 1931-07-21

Canal trolleys, NT man has invented plan, article (Buffalo Courier, 1899-10-29).jpg
date: 1899-10-29

A Mechanical Marvel, ad (c1900).jpg
date: 1900

Agents of US inspect boats, surly Perew questioned, article (Tonawanda News, 1918-03-20).jpg
date: 1918-03-20

Padlocks removed from 49 1st, article (Buffalo Courier Express, 1937-05-01).jpg
date: 1937-05-01

Newcomb to keep lid on Goose Island vice, article (Buffalo Courier Express, 1936-05-11).jpg
date: 1936-05-11

Grand jury's vice quiz to be continued, article (Buffalo Courier Express, 1936-05-16).jpg
date: 1936-05-16

Court acts to padlock Goose Island resorts, article (Buffalo Courier Express, 1936-04-08).jpg
date: 1936-04-08

Wonderful wooden man that walks, illustration (c1895).jpg
date: 1895

Walking Automaton, photo (Granger Collection, c1900).jpg
date: 1900

The automatic man, illustration (1900).jpg
date: 1900

Steam man, photo (1901).jpg
date: 1901

Mechanical toy patent (Perew, 1924-11-24).jpg
date: 1924-11-24

Electric Man at the Globe Outlet of Indianapolis, ad (1914).jpg
date: 1914

Advertising device, patent (Perew, 1907-07-20).png
date: 1907-07-20

Buffalo Norsemen Magazine, game program vs Johnstown Jets, excerpts (1975-11-02).jpg
date: 1975-11-02

Buffalo Norsemen, puck (c1975).jpg
description: Likely a "retro" item
date: 1975

Buffalo Norsemen, logo (c1975).png
date: 1975

Buffalo Norsemen, button (1975).jpg
date: 1975

View of the east end of the wall at the junction of the old canal and creek, photo (Erie Canal Museum, 1920-11-22).jpg
description: Star Theater Photo Plays, Gold Medal Flour, Koenig
source: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/srr_ecm/id/1919/rec/28
date: 1920-11-22

New York Central Railroad Bascule Bridge (Erie Canal Museum, 1920-10-08).jpg
source: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/srr_ecm/id/1892/rec/26
date: 1920-10-08

Webster Street, empty lot next to Dwyers (Google, 2007-10).jpg
date: 2007-10

View of a lift bridge on the Erie Canal being raised to allow a boat to pass in Tonawanda., photo (Erie Canal Museum, 1920-11-22).jpg
source: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/srr_ecm/id/1853/rec/21
date: 1920-11-22

Tonawandas Bowling Assn, ad logotype (1950).png
date: 1950

Tonawanda Roller Mills, McDonalds Best flour, ad (Tonawanda News, 1896-01-02).jpg
date: 1896-01-02

Pine Woods Park opens tomorrow, article (Tonawanda News, 1946-03-27).jpg
date: 1946-03-27

Opposition to stub ends for Bryant and Niagara, Payne Estate, article (Tonawanda News, 1920-05-25).jpg
date: 1920-05-25