Collections
![175th Anniversary of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VHB007.jpeg?itok=kZrNdgr2)
Photographs relating to the history of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library over the past century.
![1885 Wantagh Station](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR140.jpg?itok=xNAtGlyk)
Items relating to the move and restoration of the original Wantagh, NY train station
![1913 Watervliet Flood](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/XGY005.jpeg?itok=2FRkOXlM)
The 1913 Watervilet Flood collection is a collection of photos shows the flooding in Watervliet, New York, along some of the main thoroughfares.
![1935 Federal Improvement Aerial Survey](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/1001722031_M22085714.jpg?itok=KVmq-Ghx)
This set of aerial images offers insight into several early versions of the Erie Canal, which were still visible in 1935 but have since been replaced by other infrastructure or otherwise faded into their surroundings.
![A photograph taken from the Perisphere, August 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/ZRR255.jpg?itok=px1cMsYc)
204 photos of the 1939 New York World’s Fair
![1964 Rochester Riot Photographs](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/YQR001.jpeg?itok=O2USW-4e)
This collection of images documents Rochester’s 1964 race riots, offering a vivid and revealing glimpse into Rochester’s, and the nation’s, past.