Postcard Views: A Walk Down Main Street Buffalo, New York, circa 1910

Bieron, Joseph & Paul McCarthy

ISBN 10: 0978847644 / ISBN 13: 9780978847647

Published by Buffalo Heritage Unlimited, Buffalo, NY, 2007

About this Item

8vo. Paperback. Glossy, stiff pictorial wrappers. 68pp. Profusely illustrated in color.

Seller Inventory # 014351

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postcard Views: A Walk Down Main Street Buffalo, New York, circa 1910
• Publisher: Buffalo Heritage Unlimited, Buffalo, NY
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978847644
• ISBN 13: 9780978847647
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

In 1900, Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the U.S. As the world ushered in the new century, Buffalo celebrated its status as a vibrant center for transportation, commerce, and industry and became home for thousands of immigrants who chose to begin their new lives in this promising City by the Lake. Postcards erupted on the scene around 1907, a short-lived product of the collision of emerging print technologies and existing postal regulations. This lovely book offers a fascinating and historically accurate glimpse of Buffalo's Main Street at the turn of the last century through postcard scenes. These views of downtown reveal Buffalo as one of the most progressive and vibrant cities of the time. How fitting that postcards, made popular during Buffalo's heyday, should pave the way through the city's illustrious past. Perhaps they also provide valuable clues for directions in which Buffalo's beautiful downtown could and should develop a century hence, rising from the ashes to emerge once again as a vital, vibrant hub for the entire region.

About the Author

Born in Buffalo and is a lifelong resident of Western New York, Joseph Bieron taught chemistry at Canisius College for 40 years. In 1995, he founded Canisius College Press, which published books about Buffalo and Western New York history.