Allegheny Conference on Community Development records 1920-1993 [manuscript]

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Allegheny Conference on Community Development records 1920-1993 [manuscript]

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This collection, which includes series for prints, negatives, and transparencies, documents the large scope of the involvement of the Conference in the planning and redevelopment of the greater Pittsburgh region. Within the prints series, there are subseries that document aviation, buildings, education, health and welfare, highways, housing, recreation, smoke control, stadiums, transportation, and urban redevelopment.

33.00 linear ft.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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Pittsburgh Public Schools (Pa.)

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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...