Records of the Westchester County Commission on Government, 1921-1956.

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Records of the Westchester County Commission on Government, 1921-1956.

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Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, speeches, and clippings collected and created by the Westchester County Commission on Government during its active life. Several folders contain material added by Mr. Pforzheimer after the dissolution of the Commission. The bulk of the records pertain to the deliberations of the Commission and provide much information about the thinking that went into the making of the County's first Charter. In addition, the records provide an excellent overview of the state of the County--its schools, transportation facilities, police and fire department, water supply, local governments, county government operations, etc.--in the mid and late 1930s. The folder entitled "Towns, 1934" contains information regarding civic organizations, population statistics, elected officials, assessed land valuations, and related topics. For other information contained in the records, see the list of folder titles in the Series Container List (in the Archives Reading Room) and the subject headings listed below.

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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...