Papers of several members of the Yates family of Buffalo and Orchard Park, New York. Includes a printed copy of Elizabeth Yates's 1989 autobiographical piece from Gale Research Co.'s Something About the Author series ; legal papers of Franklyn Buell of Connecticut relating to legal proceedings involved in the voluntary dissolution of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Buffalo, 1889 and 1918 ; papers relating to the real estate holdings of the Vendome Realty Corporation of Buffalo (headed by Walter A. Yates) and to Erie County's condemnation of the Vendome Garage as part of the site for the new Central Library building of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library ; family and building photographs ; and a brass plate (from a cigar box) inscribed to Morris S. Tremaine, New York State Comptroller, "in honor of his unique record from his associates, " followed by a list of ten names, including Harry D. Yates, and dated November 10, 1936.