Adeline Levine, collector, Love Canal Collection, 1953-1981.

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Adeline Levine, collector, Love Canal Collection, 1953-1981.

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Reports, documents, photocopies of correspondence and other materials used by Dr. Adeline Levine, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo, as background for her book, Love Canal: Science, Politics and People published by Lexington Books in 1982. The bulk of the documents date from 1978 to 1981, but a few items concern the original transfer of the Love Canal site to the Niagara Falls, New York, Board of Education in 1953. The Love Canal controversy concerned the effects of toxic wastes at the Love Canal, a sixteen acre tract of land located in the southeast end of the city of Niagara Falls, New York.

4 Ms. boxes (2.0 linear ft.)

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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The Love Canal controversy involves a tract of land in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was shown to contain high levels of toxic chemicals. In the late 1970s, concerns about the health of residents caused an outpouring of scientific studies and legal suits involving the residents, Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation, and state and federal governmental agencies. Dr. Adeline Levine, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1968 to 1990, studied the sociological ...