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As a result, many subject areas are not covered.

The librarians weeded both the clippings and photographic files, discarding older files on a routine basis. The collection served as the library for the reporters of the paper. The news clippings and photographs, arranged by subject and person, cover the late 1950s to September 19, 1982.

The library consists of approximately one million news clippings, 100,000 photographs and several pieces of artworks and framed photographs. That left Buffalo with only one daily newspaper, the Buffalo Evening News, now known as The Buffalo News.Ĭowles Media donated the library to the Buffalo History Museum and Buffalo State College. After the local Newspaper Guild members voted to oppose a deal to sell the Courier Express to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the Septemissue was the last issue published. After a change in corporate leadership, Cowles Media decided to close the paper in September 1982. In August 1979, The Courier-Express was purchased by the Cowles Media Company, a publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One notable part-owner and editor of the Buffalo Express was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, whose tenure at the newspaper lasted from 1869 to 1871. The combined newspapers claimed a heritage dating to 1828. William James Conners, the owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two papers together. The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. Samuel Clemens (center) with American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Express