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  • Item Type: Postcard

Hotel Sheldon, photo postcard.jpg
The Hotel Sheldon was located at southeast corner of Main and Goundry.

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South Niagara Street, looking west, Tonawanda, postcard.jpg
Note lack of electrical poles along the canal.

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Canal and Lumber Yards, postcard.jpg
Appears to be looking southeast through the Gratwick lumber yeards, from roughly present-day Gratwick Park, with Tonawanda Iron and Steel looming on left, and Tonawanda Island on the right and beyond.

Webster Street, with dog, postcard.jpg
This postcard from around 1900 is one of my favorite views of Webster Street (facing north). You can see trains used to run right down the street near where the Riviera would later be built. On the left is present-day Crazy Jake's. Horse-drawn…

South Niagara Street, Tonawanda, postcard (c1900).jpeg
Showing Hunphrey & Vandervoort Insurance, Schnell's, the old Erie Canal and more.

Ascension Roman Catholic Church, illustrated postcard (1907).jpg
Notice the trolley tracks in the road.

Birds-eye view of some of the dockage at Twin Cities, postcard (1908).jpg
Manhattan Street is in the foreground. Just beyond is some of that famous lumber (Dodge & Bliss and J. W Scribner are two firms who stacked it here), and the swing bridge connecting to North Tonawanda to Tonawanda's "Goose Island." The little…

Schule der St. Paulus, Martinsville, postcard (1910).jpg
Formerly located just south of present-day St. Martin's.

North Presbyterian Church, North Tonawanda, postcard (c1910).jpg
From their website: North Presbyterian Church was organized on April 30, 1891 as part of the Niagara Presbytery. Prior to that Presbyterians in North Tonawanda had attended First Presbyterian Church, Tonawanda. The Rev. Henry Sanborne was ordained…

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Transferring lumber, postcard (c.1910).jpg
Showing the Grace Holland.

Public Market, North Tonawanda, postcard (c1910).jpg
North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works in the background before its 1911 expansion.

Portion of Harbor in Twin Cities, Goose Island, postcard (1913-05-23).jpg
The first postcard apparently penned by someone just arriving in Tonawanda in 1910 to study as a veterinarian under the tutelage of a Dr. H. S. Wende. He gives a charming description of his situation to a newphew, in a very legible hand. More about…

New Sugar Bowl, Tonawanda, postcard (1911-07-21).jpg
Located at 32 Webster, this dealer in delectables kept Twin Cities dentists busy for generations. According to the website of North Tonawanda History Museum: The Pullman brothers, Gust and Leo, operated the Sugar Bowl...from 1920 to 1965, having…

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Tonawanda Depot, postcard (1914-03-13).jpg
Home of Historical Society of the Tonawandas

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Erie Bridge railroad, postcard (1916).jpg
This bridge no longer exists; it carried the former Erie RR across Tonawanda Creek at the foot of Vandervoort Street. Heading northwest, the railroad line continued to just east of the present-day Railroad Museum, along East Oliver Street, and across…

Webster Street, facing south, postcard (c 1910).jpg
Most Webster Street postcards face north, but this one faces south into Tonawanda. On the left can be seen train tracks. On the right, across the bridge, is the State National Bank. On the north side, Scanlon's Hall, then the First National Bank.…

The Lumber District, postcard.jpg
A view from the southern portion of a lumber-bedecked Tonawanda Island across the "Little (Niagara) River" onto a lumber-bedecked North Tonawanda.

Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen, James Ayrault, postcard (c1920).jpg
A Jack Ayrault lived in Tonawanda and went to Lehigh in Pennsylvania; this is not necessarily a Lumbermen player (as was advertised on eBay)

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Bridge over Erie Barge Canal dividing Tonawandas, postcard.jpg
First National Bank, Tonawanda Power Co. also pictured.

Bridge over Erie Barge Canal, postcard.jpg
Showing First Trust, Tonawanda Power Co., more.

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