Abstract This collection consists of business records, correspondence, plot maps, property listings; ephemera of civic, religious, fraternal, and cultural institutions; family memorabilia, reminiscences; clippings on Buffalo local history; photographs of downtown Buffalo, circa 1910; medals; speech notes on clock collecting and Lincolniana. Also included are papers of his wife Margaret Kidd Parke: correspondence, notes from classes at the University at Buffalo, and correspondence related to the Home...

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Includes handwritten lesson plans and exams explaining Froebel's "gifts," (1897-1898); miscellaneous items. Margaret Parke's Free Kindergarten Training certificate (1898), and Buffalo Department of Instruction certificate of qualification (1898), are stored with other oversize materials from the Fenton Parke collection.