, and David Gray, editor of the
Buffalo Express whose tenure at the newspaper lasted from 1869 to 1871. In August 1979, The
Courier-Express was purchased by the
Cowles Media Company, a publishing company based in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. After a change in corporate leadership, Cowles Media decided to close the paper in September 1982. After the local
Newspaper Guild members voted to oppose a deal to sell the
Courier Express to
Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation, the September 19, 1982 issue was the last issue published. That left Buffalo with only one daily newspaper, the
Buffalo Evening News, now known as
The Buffalo News. Cowles Media donated the library to the
Buffalo History Museum and
Buffalo State College. The library is now housed in the E. H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College. The library consists of approximately one million news clippings, 100,000 photographs and several pieces of artworks and framed photographs. The news clippings and photographs, arranged by subject and person, cover the late 1950s to September 19, 1982. The collection served as the library for the reporters of the paper. The librarians weeded both the clippings and photographic files, discarding older files on a routine basis. As a result, many subject areas are not covered. The library is currently being digitized. While that may take years, photographs will continually be added to the Butler Library Archives Flickr site. ==Editors==