Google has teamed up with LIFE Magazine and the result is a fantastic archive of Buffalo images from the photographers of LIFE.
"This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google software engineer Paco Galanes said on the Google blog.
And aren't we happy for that? Newly digitized pictures of Buffalo that haven't surfaced for decades (and several more that never made it out of the darkroom) are available for viewing, and here's the really good part--they can be downloaded for free and used, as long as it's not for financial profit. In addition, LIFE offers high quality, framed prints of any and all photos.
Just visit Google and type Buffalo, NY, into the search engine. Check out the 1958 Democratic Convention and shots like the one above, featuring test pilots at the Curtiss Wright factory, 1941. My personal favorite is this photo from 1926 of a ship passing through the grain elevators.