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• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)

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• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
• The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo (Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1912), ed. by Frank H. Severance (page images at Cornell)

• An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo, With Some Account of Its Early Inhabitants, Both Savage and Civilized: Comprising Historic Notices of The Six Nations or Iroquois Indians, Including a Sketch of The Life of Sir William Johnson, and of Other Prominent White Men, Long Resident Among The Senecas, Arranged In Chronologial Order (2 volumes; Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker and Hill, printers, 1864-1865), by William Ketchum (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
• The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo (Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1912), ed. by Frank H. Severance (page images at Cornell)

• The Book of the Museum (Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society v25; 1921), ed. by Frank H. Severance (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ameryka Echo (partial serial archives)

• Dance Halls: Ordinances Governing the Conduct of Public Dances and Dance Halls, City of Buffalo, by Buffalo (New York) (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Dance Halls: Ordinances Governing the Conduct of Public Dances and Dance Halls, City of Buffalo, by Buffalo (New York) (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Manufacture of Iron in Buffalo, by John Wilkeson (page images at MOA)

• Exposé of Traitors: In the Interests of Jews, Catholics, Negroes and All Respecters of the American Principle of Civil and Religious Freedom (anonymously published in or near Buffalo, NY; ca. 1924) (page images at New York Heritage)

• Buffalo Physician (partial serial archives)

• Exposé of Traitors: In the Interests of Jews, Catholics, Negroes and All Respecters of the American Principle of Civil and Religious Freedom (anonymously published in or near Buffalo, NY; ca. 1924) (page images at New York Heritage)

• Exposé of Traitors: In the Interests of Jews, Catholics, Negroes and All Respecters of the American Principle of Civil and Religious Freedom (anonymously published in or near Buffalo, NY; ca. 1924) (page images at New York Heritage)

• Social Register, Buffalo

• Buffalo Socialist (selected issues, 1912-1914) (partial serial archives)

• Social Register, Buffalo

• A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, In the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, by James E. Seaver (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks, by A. L. Byron-Curtiss (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Binghamton, Its Settlement, Growth and Development, and the Factors in its History, 1800-1900 (Boston: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1900), by William S. Lawyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Chautauqua County, New York, From its First Settlement to the Present Time; With Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches (Buffalo, NY: Printing house of Matthews and Warren, 1875), by Andrew W. Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical Review: This volume contains Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Delaware County New York (1895) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
• The History of Delaware County (New York: W. W. Munsell, 1880) (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)

• The Centennial History of the Town of Dryden, 1797-1897, ed. by George E. Goodrich (PDF files at nysed.gov)

• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)

• History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co., 1880), by D. Hamilton Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Franklinville, N.Y. in Pictures and Story (c1914), by Roy W. Van Hoesen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (Geneseo, NY: Published at Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, c2013), by Stuart Symington (PDF and Epub with commentary at geneseo.edu)

• History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925: Covering the Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer, and Oneida (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1925), ed. by Nelson Greene
  • Volumes 1-3 (third volume in alphabetized order under "Biographies"): illustrated HTML with commentary at schenectadyhistory.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
• "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Niagara County, N. Y.: With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Private Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Important Manufactories, and Portraits of Old Pioneers and Prominent Residents (New York: Sanford and Co., 1878) (page images at New York Heritage)

• Documentary History of Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, N.Y. (1881), by E. M. Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (New York: H. Lee and Co., 1878), by Henry Ossian Flipper
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper (Gutenberg text)

• Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853), by Solomon Northup
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York (based on the 3rd edition, 1913), by William Ingraham Russell (Gutenberg text)

• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)

• A Heroic Priest: Memoir of Joseph Francis Brophy, D.D., Apostle of Coney Island (1910), by Mrs. Paul Boyton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Brooklyn Jewry (Brooklyn, NY: Scheba Pub. Co., c1937), by Samuel P. Abelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• For James and Gillian: Jim Gill's New York (photographs omitted; New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by James F. Gill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Max Steuer, Magician of the Law (New York: Greenberg, c1932), by Richard Owen Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)

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