David Collins was elected to the position of Masten District Buffalo Common Council in 1977 and served for 18 years until 1995 when he was replaced by Byron Brown. The papers in this collection were organized and placed in categories and folders by David A. Collins and his staff.  They were indexed and prepared for microfilming by Monroe and Freddie Mae. Fordham.  The microfilming was done by James Prokos, a student at Buffalo State College.  A collection of photo images from David A. Collin’s photo albums were preserved on a CD-R entitled, “Collins, (David A.) Photo Albums”.  Both projects were carried out under the supervision of Buffalo State College’s Monroe Fordham Center for Regional History.