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
Collection
Citation
“Buffalo Fire Department Ledger Page,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed October 18, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/95062.