Harrison (N.Y.) and Purchase (N.Y.) Citizen Committees Records. 1920-1952.

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Harrison (N.Y.) and Purchase (N.Y.) Citizen Committees Records. 1920-1952.

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Correspondence, memos, studies, charts and minutes relating to the Purchase Community Chest, the Purchase Fire Commissioners, and the formation of Purchase as a village. Contains material relating to the following topics: zoning, planning, sewers, water-supply, fire protection, the Purchase fire house, police pension funds, taxation, land valuation, welfare and social services, public health nurses (see the folder on Citizens Advisory Committee, 1935), county government (a speech CHP made in 1935), health regulations, the LORAC Land Development Corporation, and the Blind Brook Sanitary Sewer Project. Correspondents include: Benjamin Taylor, Supervisor of the Town of Harrison; George Arents, Jr.; Hubert Stone; and Mrs. Ogden Reid. Also included are 1933 Dun and Bradstreet reports for Westchester County, Rye, Harrison, Mamaroneck, and Greenburgh; the 1920 annual report of the Supervisor of Harrison; and the 1924 list of officers for the Town of Harrison.

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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...