Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of the Buffalo Library building, with accompanying text detailing the background of the institution, its staff, members, and collections, also brief profiles on the Fine Arts Academy, Society of Natural Sciences, and Historical Society.

Includes photographs of exterior and interior views of the building, featuring library reading rooms, art gallery, museum lobby with dinosaur skeleton, exhibition spaces, and study halls. Also includes floor plans of the entrance floor, second floor, basement and third floor, and appendix of the "Official register of the young men's association, now the Buffalo Library, 1836-1887."

Full t.p. reads: "Also brief historical sketches of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, and the Buffalo Historical Society, which occupy parts of the same building."