University of Pittsburgh Archives audio recordings collection, 1950-2000.

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University of Pittsburgh Archives audio recordings collection, 1950-2000.

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This collection contains 345 audio recordings pertaining to the University of Pittsburgh and its history dating from ca. 1950 to 2000. Content available includes Commencement proceedings, interviews with University chancellors, lectures, and student life. The dominant media types are open reel tapes and standard audiocassettes.

345 items.

University of Pittsburgh

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SNAC Resource ID: 8142443

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh. Archives Service Center.

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In 1997, staff at the Archives Service Center began the State and Local Government Archives (SLGA) Oral History Program. They aimed to capture the living memories of politicians from the local, state, and federal governments from Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania area. SLGA interviewed local political figures about governmental and political workings in the region, emphasizing the role of parties, environmental issues, electoral campaigning, urban redevelopment, civil rights, the role of g...

University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty

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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...