Buffalo

Date: 1916 - 1917

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-USA-Zachariah

Description: Includes: Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Persia, the thousand and one nights; new spectacular pageant. Season 1916. Programme Biltmore. Benefit in aid of the B.F.B. Permanent Blind Relief War Fund. 3 December 1916. Programme Booklet on Hunter Island Inn, Pelham-Bay Park, New York City Carnegie Hall. Programme for January/February 1917. Fenton's Pekin American and Chinese Restaurant (Buffalo). Variety programme, 3 September 1917. Hippodrome (Management Charles Dillingham). Souvenir book, season 1916-17. [Three different programmes with coloured covers] The Lambs All-Star Gambol. Manager William Courtleigh. 1916. Souvenir book Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915. Booklet Nixon's Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, N.J. [April and May 1916]. Two programmes and one promotional pamphlet for "His bridal night" with the Dolly Sisters. Miles Theatre (Detroit). Variety show programme for week commencing 10 September 1917. B F Keith's New Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. Program for week commencing 19 March 1917. Majestic Theatre detroit. Programme for week of 16 September 1917. Bandbox Theatre [New York?]. "The lodger", with Lionel Atwill and Phyllis Relph. Programme The Strand (Broadway cinema). Marie Doro in "The lash". Programme F F Proctor's Palace Theatre, Market St, Newark. Variety programme for 27-29 April [1916?] B F Keith's Palace Theatre (Broadway and 47th Street, New York). Flier for week of 6 November [1916?] Atlantic City's amusement guide, week of May 8 [1916]. Programme Automobile Show, grand Central Palace, New York. 6-13 January 1917. Promotional booklet and layout of show. Metropolitan Opera House. Grand Opera season 1916-1917. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, manager. Programme for beginning of 1917. Sixth annual Thanksgiving Eve Movie Ball at Madison Square Garden, November 29 1916. [Large illustrated booklet] Quantity: 22 programmes. Physical Description: Booklets and brochures, sizes varying to approximately 290 mm. Provenance: Papers of Joseph Zachariah.

Date: 1957-1958, [circa 1995]

From: Willinger, Beth, active 2023: Collection relating to Erla Saunders Lambert

Reference: MS-Papers-12913-11

Description: Comprises letters sent by Erla Saunders Lambert to her family in New Zealand, 1 August 1957 to 2 September 1958. Letters were sent by Erla from various locations, including Glen Falls, New York; Boonton Township, New Jersey; Hotel Statler in Buffalo, New York; the Istanbul Hilton in Istanbul, Turkey; the Berlin Hilton, Berlin, Germany. Also includes transcriptions of letters made after Erla's death in 1995. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Materials arrived at the Library in a box labelled "Erla Lambert Colln | Box 3 of 3" on top and "Newcomb Archives" on the side. Each letter and transcription had been housed together in archive safe folders by the donor. Quantity: 1 box(es) contains 35 letters and corresponding transcriptions. Processing information: Original letters have been enclosed in archival paper envelopes or wrapped in acid free paper for reasons of storage and preservation.

Date: 1982-[ca 1989]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-18

Description: Contains photographic prints, largely showing the United States of America, 1982 to circa 1989. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland as well as other, unidentified photographers, possibly including Mary Cleveland. Also some photographs of family in New Zealand. Prints show city scenes in New York and Washington D.C. including residential and commercial buildings, museums, street scenes. parks, monuments, shop window displays, and sculptures. People are largely unidentified and include family groups (Watkins family), pedestrians, people eating at a diner, homeless people, and protestors. Les and Mary Cleveland also appear in a number of photographs. A number of photographs relate to the Washington Redskins, including street stalls selling merchandise and banners of support around Washington D.C.. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum (including space and aviation related exhibits). Scenes from Buffalo, Baltimore, and New Harmony feature historic and modern buildings and street scenes. The USS Constellation museum ship is photographed. Also photographs of Niagara Falls and the cityscape of the Canadian city Niagara Falls. Photographs of Edward and Peter Cleveland canoeing on a pond or lake are taken at an unidentified location in New Zealand and with an older woman [a Cleveland relative?]. Also contains original photo wallets, some of which have receipts attached. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints and negatives arrived at Library in print wallets inside a file box labelled "Noel Mangin Southern Voices." They were layered on the top of the box. Quantity: 167 colour original photographic print(s). 6 item(s) of photographic ephemera photo wallets. Physical Description: Dye coupler photographic prints and paper and plastic photo wallets Transfers: Negatives separated from these prints to be found at 35mm-109962 to 35mm-109211.. Processing information: Prints were separated from negatives to facilitate appropriate storage. Not all prints have a corresponding negative.