Entrance to Harbor, Buffalo, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0529ac1]

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Title	Entrance to Harbor, Buffalo, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0529ac1]
Creator	[unknown]
Subject--front	Awnings Buildings Chimneys Clouds Flags Grain elevators Hats Hills Industrial facilities Lighthouses Luggage Piers & wharves Reflections Rocks Shipping Smoke Smokestacks Steam engines Waterfronts Men Passengers People Color postcards Boats Cargo ships Rowboats Sailing ships Tugboats Harbors
Description--Front	A bustling pierside scene at Buffalo Harbor, ca. 1916, at the mouth of the Buffalo River. Prominently featured at right are the limestone, octagonal "Old Main" Buffalo Light (built 1833), and a nearby wooden tower (a later addition, no longer extant) dubbed "Chinaman's Light" for its pagoda-type roof and additional function as a lookout station which aided in the the apprehension of Chinese immigrants crossing the Niagara from Canada. Later torn down, the tower's nickname would be transferred to the lighthouse itself. Printing information: card number (1776) [indicated on front side only]
References	Heverin, A. T. (1998). Buffalo light: Guardian of the harbor, 1866-1920. Retrieved October 18, 2009, from http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/light/1866-1920.htm
Coverage--geographic	Buffalo, New York
Date Original	1916?
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	3.5"
Source Width	5.5"
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Erie Canal
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 88800F and SiverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS4 and Mac OS 10.5. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2009-09-23
Resource Identifier	e0529ac1.jpg
Format	Image
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	141478 Bytes
Checksum	1698743941
Height (of Digital image)	648
Width (of Digital Image)	1000
Color Space	sRGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 757, Digital Imaging, Fall 2009: Meg Donabedian, Beth Daniel Lindsay
OCLC number	519240984

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Entrance to Harbor, Buffalo, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0529ac1]

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