A Source for Information

   

    I thought you might be interested in seeing where I found so much of this information about Salvatore Rizzo and his marionette theater. These scrapbooks were a Works Progress Administration project during the 1930s. Clerical workers who were out of work were paid by the government to sift through the library's collection of old newspapers, find and sort articles, and paste them into scrapbooks. There are about 200 of these scrapbooks in the collection and they are a tremendous resource for anyone curious about Buffalo life in years past. To see them, just go to the Central Branch at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, and enter the Grosvenor Room. That is the room with local history resources of all kinds. You will see the shelves of scrapbooks on your left as soon as you walk in the door. Be prepared to be swept away. There are scrapbooks about Buffalo's Foreign Population, Buffalo Homes, Buffalo Streets, Industry, Churches, even Buffalo Trees!