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University Archives Student Research Guide: Home

Navigating the University Archives for students in HIS301
Last Updated: Jan 17, 2025 2:01 PM

How to Use This Guide

Welcome to the University Archives! This guide is designed to:

1. Introduce you to the University Archives at UB, and provide an overview of our collection strengths.

2. Introduce the basics of archival research and evaluating primary sources.

3. Serve as a starting point for research on various topics represented in the University Archives collections.

This guide includes tabs for several topics represented in the University Archives collections, each of which contains images, links to online resources, and information on relevant archival collections. Here you will find information on the following topics: Campus Unrest; UB During WWII; Love Canal; Black and African American History; LGBTQ+ History; the Pan-American Exposition; UB Athletics; Student Life; Student Publications [others?]. You can use this guide to help identify topics, collections, and individual primary sources of interest for course assignments or other research projects. If you have any questions or require assistance, please direct your questions to Kate Greenberg, Instruction & Collections Archivist, at kgreenbe@buffalo.edu.

Student Life

Joan Arhardt, Homecoming Queen, with Buster, UB Mascot, 1957

#AVC_A97

UB Athletics

UB Women's Soccer players, 1982

UB During WWII

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Air Cadets in line for food

Pan-American Exposition

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Souvenir card, Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Love Canal

Student protest against Hooker Chemical at SUNY Buffalo, 1979

Student protest against Hooker Chemical at SUNY Buffalo, 1979

#Spectrum.9, Love Canal Images database

LGBTQ+ History

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October is National Gay and Lesbian History Month

Black and African American History

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at Kleinhans Music Hall, 1967

Campus Unrest