RARE BUFFALO NY SUNDAY TIMES SPECIAL ED. PEACE BRGE '27

THE BUFFALO SUNDAY TIMES

 EDITION COMMEMORATING THE OPENING OF THE PEACE BRIDGE

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

PUBLISHED: 1927

SECTIONS: PART ONE AND PART THREE, SADLY, PART TWO IS NOT PRESENT

PAGES: EACH PART CONTAINS 8 PAGES

CONDITION: VARIES FROM POOR TO FAIR TO GOOD

DIMENSIONS: 32"x20.5" WHEN FULLY OPENED

THIS IS A RARE BUFFALO, NY AND FORT ERIE, ONT COLLECTIBLE WHICH, SADLY, IS NOT IN THE BEST OF SHAPE.  THE NEGATIVES FIRST: GENERAL AGE TONING, CHIPPING, AND CREASE TEARS, PARTICULARLY TO PART THREE, WHICH HAS EXPERIENCED A TEAR THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT THE SECTION AT THE HALF-FOLD POINT AND RUNS JUST PASSED THE HALFWAY POINT WIDTHWISE.  THE PAGES ARE NOT, HOWEVER, SO BRITTLE THAT YOU CANNOT NAVIGATE THROUGH THE PAPER.  CAUTION JUST NEEDS TO BE EXERCISED BECAUSE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED TEAR.  THIS RARE SPECIAL EDITION CONTAINS MANY, MANY GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS, MANY OF THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BRIDGE ITSELF.  THE FRONT PAGE OF PART THREE CONTAINS PHOTOS OF PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE AND THE PRINCE OF WALES WHO, AS STATED, "WILL BE IN BUFFALO FORMALLY TO DEDICATE THE NEW PEACE BRIDGE IN THE LATE SUMMER OR EARLY FALL."  THERE ARE MANY ADVERTISEMENTS FOR NEW REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENTS IN FORT ERIE, ONT.  THERE IS ALSO ONE PAGE DEDICATED TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF CURRENT EVENTS, AS WELL AS ONE PAGE TO MOVIE STARS OF THE DAY ( JOHN BARRYMORE, LON CHANEY, ETC) AND WHERE THEIR FILMS ARE SCREENING IN BUFFALO, NY.  THE PAPER CLOSES WITH A FULL PAGE AD FOR M&T BANK.  MANY OF THE PEACE BRIDGE OFFICERS ARE PICTURED AS WELL.  ASIDE FROM IT'S CONDITION, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT "CROSS-COLLECTIBLE," THAT HAS RESONANCE WITH HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA COLLECTORS OF: BUFFALO, NY; THE PEACE BRIDGE; FORT ERIE, ONT; NEWSPAPERS; ADVERTISING; AND PHOTOGRAPHY.  SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME.  THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK.