Francis J. Petrie was for many years the City Historian of Niagara Falls, as well as the author of a regular newspaper column in the Niagara Falls Review.
After his death many of his photographs, negatives, slides, and postcards were donated to the Library.
Front row L-R: Wm. Husband, Richard Silverio?, Terry Lapp, Ed Berry, Walt. Bunsy?; Back L-R: Douglas Marshal, G.R. Finlay, Francis Petrie, Ed Haynes, Elliot Brady ;