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Old Photo Album: A Forgotten Atlantis

By John H. Conlin - April 15, 2008

Buffalo's wooden elevators were opportunistic wonders of design and invention. They bridged the time gap between the age of wooden sailing vessels and the architecture of 20th century modernism.

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