Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page

Firefighter Ledger Page

Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)

A clipping of a handwritten piece of the Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page from September 6, 1901.

A handwritten fire department logbook entry dated Friday, September 6, 1901. The page lists times of alarms, locations, responses, and housing of apparatus in a tabular format with company numbers. At the bottom, a red-ink note records the shooting of President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, mentioning the assailant and location.

Courtesy of The Buffalo Firefighters Historical Society

1901-09-06

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Buttons (Information artifacts), Clippings

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Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901