This one in particular, taken of the city's beautiful Goldome Building (originally Buffalo Savings Bank and now M&T Bank) is amusing in countless ways. The image calls out for a slew of different fun captions. So far the general response upon viewing this image is, "What the 'heck' is that?" From the looks of it, this must have been in conjunction with the Pan American Expo - is that an Elk on top of that stone mountain gateway? Check out the trolleys!

Second image is an enlarged view of the original




If I were a betting man, I'd say it's one of the temporary arches under construction for the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) encampment parade in 1901.