The Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society

Address:
The Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
25 Nottingham Court,
Buffalo, NY, 14216
Phone: (716) 873-9612

Archival holdings: collections documenting the history of the City of Buffalo and the surrounding region (200,000 photographs, 2,000 items in manuscript collections). The main Polish collection is Francis Eustachius Fronczak Papers (1880-1947). Francis Fronczak was a Polish physician, an active member of the Health Commission for the City of Buffalo (1910-1947), President of the Polish Relief Committee during World War I and member of the Red Cross Mission to Poland after World War I. The collection contains correspondence, bulletins and reports of various professional societies, health organizations and cultural organizations. There are also private notes, a large collection of photographs and correspondence with Ignacy Paderewski (1905-1939).

Other holdings: The library possesses 20,000 books and microfilms of Buffalo newspapers (XIX to XX century).

If you need more information, please contact the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society. The Historical Society website: http://www.bechs.org/
Library hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM.