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Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page


Handwritten ledger page with numbers, calculations, and notes arranged in columns.
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Title

Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page

Subject

Firefighter Ledger Page
Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)

Description

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.

Source

Courtesy of The Buffalo Firefighters Historical Society

Date

1901-09-06

Rights

Type

Text
Buttons (Information artifacts), Clippings

Identifier

LIB-005_0301

Is Part Of

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

Citation

“Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed October 22, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/95062.