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Records Management Division of the Office of the City Clerk, City of Pittsburgh. For research inquiries contact us at [email protected]
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined December 2015
Exciting news! Today we’re launching a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to browse and research online: https://t.co/RJhgNUPptT (1/6)
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Get in the zone…for our new collection of Zoning Board of Adjustment Minutes! 🙌 We've digitized the first 50 years of ZBA minutes and cases from 1923 to 1973. Visit our website below to access this exciting and useful new collection! https://t.co/7JlD0YRw7u
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New digital collection available! We've digitized Urban Redevelopment Authority Board Meeting Minutes from 1946 to 2017. Access the collection in our Digital Collections website below: https://t.co/BWKYfWTK62
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New collection available! The @PLANPGH Library contains 244 boxes of reports spanning 100 years. Early transpo plans? Got it. Research on Fort Pitt? Yes please. Mid-century redevelopment reports? Up to our necks. Search the complete container list: https://t.co/23zRiN5dKP
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Many files include photos of the project before, during & after construction. We’ll digitize many of them this year and upload them to our new Digital Collections website: https://t.co/BnX1W3OlLY Contact archives@pittsburghpa.gov to schedule research visits. 4/4
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The records offer a unique way to explore public improvements and their impact on citizens. The collection may be useful to scholars researching eminent domain, and to genealogists searching for property details through court transcripts, street plans and photos (3/4)
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As the city expanded and developed its roads, damages & benefits to adjacent properties were assessed by viewers. These files track such projects including the paving, opening and vacating of streets, sewer construction, and condemnations for bridges, water works and parks. 2/4
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New collection available! The Board of Viewers Case Files contain reports, photographs and related docs on over 8,000 street improvements over the course of a century, from 1870 to 1970. A full index to the cases can be found in our catalog here: https://t.co/pQ9vU6FTDE 1/4
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Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responding to a fire at a vacant warehouse on Liberty Ave in the Strip District on Nov. 6, 1965. The warehouse stretched multiple blocks, from 22nd to 27th Streets. See the full film in our new Digital Collections website: https://t.co/hAOJTftqtp
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Digitization of selected content has been supported in part by grant funding from @NHPRC and the @PHMC. The Records Management Division will post updates on its social media pages when new digital collections are made available, so stay tuned! https://t.co/BlbqwtLAIZ (6/6)
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City Planning Commission meeting minutes from 1918 to 2001, covering important developments in Pittsburgh’s planning and zoning history: https://t.co/52Em5PlLBO (5/6)
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Legislative records including ordinances, resolutions and minutes from Pittsburgh City Council and from two dozen annexed municipalities, from Allegheny City to Westwood Borough: https://t.co/kcVLItxHw6 (4/6)
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A collection of over 2,000 photographs of interior and exterior views of buildings in the Lower Hill District from 1955 to 1960, prior to the construction of the Civic Arena: https://t.co/i8wEu7chnL (3/6)
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The website features recently digitized records spanning two centuries, including: The Pittsburgh City Hall Cornerstone Collection, which features items placed in a time capsule in City Hall at the corner of Smithfield and Oliver in 1869: https://t.co/xdNMNkwOks (2/6)
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Happy 412 Day, Pittsburgh! As we celebrate our great city, please enjoy some photos of Pittsburgh through the years (courtesy of our friends at @PghArchives)! (1/3)
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Schenley Golf Course, 1967. The course was renamed in honor of Mayor Bob O'Connor in 2007.
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Looking northeast toward the Strip District and Allegheny River, Downtown, 1968. (Historic Review Planning Records)
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Oxford Centre pamphlet, c. 1981. Completed in 1983, the tower was the first of the large “Renaissance II”-era office projects in Pittsburgh, followed shortly after by PPG Place and BNY Mellon Center. (From the City Planning Library Collection)
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Sophie Masloff was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Pittsburgh and the second to serve on City Council. Here she is dancing with Luciano Pavarotti (c. 1989), posing for a pic with Muhammad Ali (1998), and meeting Pope John Paul II (1989).
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Looking east down Centre Ave toward Soho St, Middle Hill, 1967.
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