Purchase (N.Y.) Property Owners Association Records. 1905-1943.

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Purchase (N.Y.) Property Owners Association Records. 1905-1943.

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Minutes, correspondence and memos relating to the activities of the Association. The collection includes papers relating to many of the issues addressed by the organization including zoning, taxes, property valuation, and the need for updated fire fighting equipment; the Association's fight against an airport planned for the Purchase area; the re-organization of the government of the town of Harrison; cuts in state aid to schools; and a meeting, held in 1933 in cooperation with the Central Harrison Taxpayer's Association and the Westchester County Club Grounds Association, to question candidates for local political office. Included also are folders relating to the Purchase Community, Inc., and the Purchase Community House.

1 cubic ft.

Westchester County Archives

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Westchester County Archives

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Pforzheimer, Carl H., Jr., 1907-1996

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Because the appropriation for the Westchester County Commission on Government did not include funds to study the libraries in the county, Carl H. Pforzheimer, the Commission's chair, sought and received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation to conduct such a study. Mr. Pforzheimer directed the study which proposed an umbrella organization, the Westchester County Library System (today, the Westchester Library Association). These are Mr. Pforzheimer's files. From the description of West...