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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Including many cabinet photographs from the 1890s, some identified as acquaintances of Fenton M. Parke; snapshots, largely unidentified, from the 1890s, showing people and travel scenes; prints showing Fenton Parke addressing meetings, with his Lincoln collection in other poses, 1890s; photographs of daughter Margaret Kidd Parke, circa 1920s-1930s.