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Niagara Falls
Public Library 

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of Niagara Falls
Public Library

Telephone: (716) 286-4899
E-mail the Local History Department

• About our collection

The Niagara Falls Local History department is located on the third floor of the Main Library, accessible by either stairs or an elevator. Local History is a research library containing extensive collections of books, photographs, maps, newspapers, videotapes, scrapbooks, and clipping files about Niagara Falls, both city and the cataract.  These materials document the history of the Niagara Falls area from before the founding of the villages of Niagara Falls (1848), Niagara City (1854), (Suspension Bridge) and the present day Niagara Falls.
       

Some of these collections include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Early prints and original artwork
• Postcards and stereoviews
• Nineteenth century guidebooks
• Hotel registers of early hotels
• Glassplate stereoviews, negatives, and lantern slides
• Early editions of works by Father Hennepin
• Early travel accounts
• Niagara Gazette on microfilm from 1854-(located on Main Floor in Reference Department); subject index to the Gazette, 1854 - (located in Local History Department on third floor)
• Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce files and other materials from inception in 1918 to 2005
• Love Canal - extensive scrapbook and clipping files
• Philatelic collection of materials relating to Niagara Falls
• Clippings and books about the Niagara "Daredevils"
• Photographs and papers documenting the development of hydro-electric power in the region
• Carborundum Company archives
• Union Carbide Company collection of glass plate negatives and other materials
• DeVeaux School archives
• Orrin E. Dunlap collection of books, photographs and  other materials relating to the growth of the city of  Niagara Falls
• Herbert C. Force collection of papers and photographs from the latter half of the twentieth century
• Nathaniel Dett archives of music by and materials about Nathaniel Dett.
  
  
  LINKS TO LOCAL AND REGIONAL HISTORY SITES:
  
• Friends of the Local History Department, Niagara Falls Public Library
• Historic Niagara Digital Collections (from the Niagara Falls Ontario Public Library)
• Niagara Falls Heritage Portal(Ontario)
• Buffalo and Erie Country Historical Society
• Old Fort Niagara

Last modified: April 15, 2008