Interview with Bill Block : on Sunday, November 24, 1963, in his house in Pittsburgh / [Stefan Lorant]. [1963?]

Lorant, Stefan, 1901-1997

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Stefan Lorant is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern pictorial journalism. After growing up amid his family's studio photography business in Budapest, he pursued a career in silent-filmmaking in Vienna and Berlin, then went on to both found and edit picture magazines in Germany, Hungary, and England. In 1940 he came to America and began writing and producing photographically-illustrated history books. From the description of Stefan Lorant collection, ca. 1869-1993 (bulk 1920-1...

Block, Bill, 1916-2005

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Allegheny Conference on Community Development (Pa.)

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The Allegheny Conference on Community Development (ACCD) was organizaed in 1943 as the Citizens' Committee on Post-War Planning. The Committee was established to improve Pittsburgh from a dirty, smoky, easily flooded place where no one would voluntarily live into an improved city that could benefit from the post-war recovery period. This began a very successful plan that has been copied by many other cities. The Conference has changed its emphasis to meet special needs within the community and h...