(e:lilho) and I headed down to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society to do some research for the Remember Buffalo Project.

While we were there we found this pic of (e:joshua) and (e:jason)'s house across from spot at Cleveland and Elmwood. We also found some pics of the old trolley tracks on elmwood.



Here is a park at elmwood and Ferry along with the trolley tracks.



Here is the a shot of elmwood and North.



It is incredible what research consist of at the historical society. I cannot believe that their data is not digitized and searable on computers. You actually hold and look at original images in folder using special white gloves. You can request image photocopies for $0.25 but are not alowed to take pictures in the library which is ridiculous in my opinion. If you want to use their material you need to pay $25 per image for a six month lease to use the image. And that is the price for a non-profit project. How anti-preservation is that. If the place ever burns down or the material degrades there will be no external copies.

Hopefully using the remember buffalo primary document upload interface we will be able to collect thousands of primary documents of our own. Which I will then donate to a historical preservation group which promises free access and public domain for the contents.

Afterwards, I met with Doug Lambert from Randforce about collaborating on the project. He seems like a really creative, driven guy that will be fun to work with.