Historic Photos, Posters, Maps & Facts about Buffalo NY, through the yearsTumblr (3.0; @bflohistory)http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/“Let this institution be the grand repository of everything calculated to throw light on our history… and let our citizens unite heart and hand to build up it’s society…”<br/><br/> - <em>Millard Fillmore, founder and president (1862-1867), on the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society</em>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/24410075952http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/24410075952Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:24:50 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m53s7aq92f1r6iicto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, constructed 1901</p>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/24409905873http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/24409905873Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:21:10 -0400Trish: I remember that storm.. I had to sleep at my school.. Volunteers brought us mcdonalds via snow mobile!<br /> <br /> Denise: The blizzard of 77 was awesome, I've never in my life since seen a blizzard like it, my brothers jumped off of the roof into the snow, I'm surpized we didn't have to dig them out...<br /> <br /> Marie: Riding on the back of a tractor from school to home.<br /> <br /> Kerry: selling out of food in my parent's store - it took 1/2 hour to walk two blocks -and that's when we were in shape!<br /> <br /> Marie: Got stuck at home with my Mom,dad was stranded in Buffalo at the Ford plant n my brother got stuck at a friends. Dad called after 3 days n had me n Mom shovel enough room for the car, thought I was gonna have a stroke!!!!<br /> <br /> John: Hitchhiking down Delamater trying to get to Derby. Almost walked into a running vehicle that I helped push through a snow drift. Got a ride to Schyler. Good day I guess.http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16788382477http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16788382477Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:23:00 -0500<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/butler_library_archives/sets/72157626523255337/">Winter of '77 Album- so much snow!</a>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16764154850http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16764154850Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:39:39 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyiygs5rg01r6iicto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>On January 28, 1977 hurricane forces winds swept across a frozen Lake Erie and into Buffalo NY spurring the infamous Blizzard of ‘77. Snow drifts of up to 30 feet were reported and people were stuck in their houses for more than a week. </p>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16650741636http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16650741636Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:05:16 -0500<a href="http://www.buffalohistory.com">Buffalo History website!</a>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16601997259http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16601997259Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:27:01 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhc9du9Fh1r6iicto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walking in a Winter Wonderland…. at the foot of Niagara Falls!</p>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16600918398http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16600918398Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:08:01 -0500“The history of the Great Lakes is an interesting theme. It directly concerns many people — those who sail the waters of the lakes, those interested in their tributary resources, those who dwell in their populous cities. Few, indeed, are the residents of America to whom there have not come benefits, direct or indirect, from the masterful influences radiating from their shores. A picturesque charm pervades the scenes of early traffic and adventure.”<br/><br/> - <em>J. B. Mansfield, <em>History of the Great Lakes Vol. I</em>, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899</em>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16554151172http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16554151172Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:49:37 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfoyzwJqw1r6iicto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16554006246http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/16554006246Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:47:00 -0500“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.””<br/><br/> - <em>Grover Cleveland, former Mayor of Buffalo (1882) who went on to be the only President of the United States to serve two non-consecutive terms</em>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/13021750310http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/13021750310Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:58:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lux78aM5WD1r6iicto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Watson Silhouette, Inner Harbor, Buffalo NY</p>http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/13020418495http://bflohistory.tumblr.com/post/13020418495Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:26:00 -0500