Donate your old yearbooks to the Library!

Looking for a home for your unwanted yearbooks?  Consider donating them to the Library!  Once beloved mementos for young students, old high school and college yearbooks are now treasured by genealogists, local historians, and even school reunion planners.

The Grosvenor Room has a large collection of Buffalo area yearbooks, but it does not include all schools or years.  Due to cost, we rely on kind donations to add to this collection.

We would love to add yearbooks that are…

• From a high school or college in Erie County, from any year.
• In good condition; no mold or water damage, please.
• From schools we do not have, namely private and parochial, and more recent schools such as City Honors and Performing Arts.

Donated yearbooks can be dropped off in the Grosvenor Room at the Central Library.

To learn which yearbooks we currently have, check this guide.

Fond Farewell for a Friend

It is with a heavy heart that we must bid a fond farewell to Dr. Richard V. Lee, a friend of many including this Library and its Rare Book Room. Not often (enough) do we encounter a person with such passionate interest in humanity, science, exploration and teaching. Doc Lee was a genuinely good person and will be missed by all who had the good fortune to meet him.

 

 

 

Richard V. LEE M.D.
LEE – Richard V., MD Of Orchard Park, NY, May 7, 2013; beloved husband of Susan (Bradley) Lee; devoted father of Matthew V. and Benjamin B. (Juliette) Lee; grandfather of Aurora V. Guilbert and Lillian E. Lee; brother of Martha Lee Winfield; cousin of Russell V. Lee; also survived by one aunt, two nephews and one niece. No prior visitation. Memorial service to be announced at a future date. Memorials may be made to a charity of your choice . Arrangements by the F.E. BROWN SONS FUNERAL HOME,INC.

Please see an example of Doc Lee’s generosity at blog entry http://grorarebookroom.wordpress.com/tag/arabian-nights/.

Fun find in a D.A.R. Scrapbook

Here’s a unique item from one of our scrapbooks: a beautiful table place card from a dinner held in 1931 at the Town Club on Delaware Ave.  This scrapbook was compiled from 1926 to 1931 by Mrs. Belle Morgan, who was a member of the Abigail Fillmore Chapter, a local DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) organization.

[Daughters of the American Revolution, Abigail Fillmore Chapter Scrapbooks]. [Buffalo, N.Y.: Abigail Fillmore Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution], 1926. Vol.1. Grosvenor Room E202.5.N53 B825