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A. E. Richmond

Best known for a vivid late-19th-century book about Buffalo, this author captured the excitement around Niagara power, industry, and a fast-changing American city. The surviving record is slim, which gives the work an extra air of period curiosity.

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The New Wonder of the World: Buffalo, the Electric City

The New Wonder of the World: Buffalo, the Electric City

by A. E. Richmond

About the author

A. E. Richmond is credited as the author of The New Wonder of the World: Buffalo, the Electric City, a promotional and historical work first published in 1892. The book presents Buffalo at a moment of major optimism, tying the city's future to industry, transportation, and electric power from Niagara Falls.

Available catalog records found here point to that title as the main work currently associated with Richmond, and they do not provide much confirmed biographical detail about the author. Because of that, Richmond is best understood through the book itself: a strongly of-its-time portrait of Buffalo's ambitions at the dawn of the electric age.

Modern readers may find the book interesting not just as local history, but as a snapshot of how people in the 1890s imagined technology, growth, and civic progress.