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This image depicts the essence of Buffalo’s Broadway-Fillmore area in its heyday. These three ladies from the old country were friends that lived near each other and shopped together regularly. They most likely walked together in their safe and friendly neighborhood. Here at the Broadway Market, they rest after making the many purchases at their feet, reflecting the prosperity of the Market. Soon they will get up and walk safely back to their respective homes. This image encompasses the flavor of the neighborhood, friendships, and the community as a once thriving, bustling area of days gone by.
Original size of oil on canvas painting is H 30” x W 43”
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Image size: 9” X 6 1/8” $60.00
Image size: 22” X 15” $110.00

Early in the morning on August 3, 1814, after a fierce Battle of Lundy’s Lane, British Lt. General Drummond ordered Col. John Tucker to take 600 men and cross the Niagara River and Squaw Island (now Unity Island) and capture troops and cut off supplies arriving from Black Rock and Buffalo.  If successful, it could lead to establishment of naval dominance on Lake Erie.

 In defense, U.S. Maj. Lodowick Morgan, with 240 riflemen 1st and 4th Regiment, removed planking while under fire from the wooden bridge at Scajaquada Creek (then called Conjockety Creek) spanning this creek. With a battery on the south shore, Morgan’s troops bravely repelled three British attempts to repair the bridge and cross the creek, despite a 5-to-1 disadvantage, forcing the British to retreat back to Canada.

Morgan became the Hero of Conjockety.  This was a military victory and the last hostile movement of the British toward Buffalo.  While the location of the bridge is not definitely known, it may have been in the vicinity west of Dart St.at Letchworth. Original oil on canvas 24” X 48”

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Image size: 6” X 12” $60.00
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United States Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785 –1819) served in the War of 1812 against Britain. At the onset of the war, he supervised the building of a fleet of ships at Erie Pennsylvania and then at the Scajaquada Creek Naval Yard at Black Rock, just to the north of Buffalo, New York.

During the War of 1812, the Niagara River served as a transport and supply route. The natural harbor at Black Rock where the Scajaquada Creek meets the Niagara River was a safe and sheltered place to build and fit out ships in preparation for battle. Five vessels of Perry’s fleet that were refitted at Black Rock were the Trippe, Caledonia, Sommers, Amelia, and Ohio. The first three participated in the Battle of Lake Erie that led American forces in a decisive naval victory. Perry’s success ensured control of Lake Erie for the remainder of the war. Original oil on canvas 24” X 48”

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Image size: 6” X 12” $60.00
Image size: 10” X 20” $95.00

On August 3, 1814 in the early morning before dawn, U.S. Major Ludowick Morgan, commanding 240 riflemen of the combined 1st and 4th Regiment, ordered the dismantling of part of the bridge at Scajaquada Creek, then called Conjockety Creek. Despite the Americans being vastly outnumbered 5-1, the British column advanced but was decimated. More British attacks were mounted while British soldiers tried to repair the bridge while under fire, and undertook to build a temporary bridge. All were repelled. A flanking maneuver was attempted, and prevented, and the British retreated to Canada. Original size of oil on canvas painting is H 24” X W 30”

Image size: 12” X 24” $70.00

Kateri was born in 1656 of an Algonquin mother and a Mohawk Chief in the Mohawk fortified village of Canaouaga or Ossernenon (modern day Auriesville) in upstate New York. At age 18 she was instructed in the Catholic faith and was later sent to the Mission of St. Francis Xavier, a settlement of Christian Indians in Canada near Montreal. The village in Canada was also named Caughnawaga (Kahnawake). Here she taught prayers to children and worked with the elderly and sick. Kateri was known for her gentleness, kindness, faith and heroic suffering, and became known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.”

During the last years of her life, Kateri endured great suffering from a serious illness and died on April 17, 1680 at the young age of 23. In 1943 Kateri was declared venerable and then in 1980 she was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II. Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized a saint on October 21, 2012, the first Native American from North America. Original size of oil on canvas painting is H 20” X W 16”
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Image size: 8” X 10” $30.00
Image size: 16” X 20” $75.00