Collections

The Adolph M. Foerster Collection contains manuscripts and printed scores of Foerster's music, articles written by the composer, newspaper clippings concerning the composer (and the performance of his music), photographs, letters, and "notes" in the composer's hand.

This oral history collection consists of transcripts, cassette tapes, project working files and background organizational records of the interviews conducted during the African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh (AAJPSP) Oral History Project (1995-1999). The project documents individual African American Jazz Musicians in Pittsburgh as well as their efforts to organize. The content of the interviews span from 1904 to 1999.

Contains correspondence to Alexander Addison, the president judge of the Fifth District Court of Pennsylvania (1791-1802), from Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Findley and Charles Nisbet regarding political events in the U. S. and Europe, particularly the Constitutional Convention, Jay and Pinckney Treaties, Indian wars, and the Whiskey Rebellion.

Consists of 14 of 16 patents that Dr. Lowy secured for his research, some memorabilia from his college years, and materials related to the dedication of the Alexander Lowy Memorial Seminar Room in Langley Hall on May 25, 1959.

Minutes from the meetings of the Allegheny County Medical Society from 1848 to 1858. The minutes contain information about the founding and operation of the society, election of members, and proceedings of meetings.

Visual images from the 1890s-1930s depict the construction and equipment, experiments, inventors and directors of the Allegheny Observatory located in Pittsburgh’s Northside neighborhood.

A wide-range of primary source textual and visual material documents left-wing organizations in the U.S. during the 20th century.

Images visually document a wide range of topics relating to the history of Pittsburgh including neighborhoods, infrastructure, and landscape selected from the AIS vertical files.

Contains tax receipts from various townships in Bedford County, Pa. (1763-1838); each tax receipt includes a list of names of taxpayers along with the amount paid to the township.

Collection contains a constitution and journal, history, minute books, lists of members, memorial publications, baptismal, marriage, burial, and financial records from 1843-1977 of the Birmingham United Church of Christ.

The Bob Nelkin Collection of ACC-PARC Records contain administrative records, state school and hospital and interim care committee records, scrapbooks and photographs.

Contains images from ca. 1910 to 2000 that document Breathe Pennsylvania's work in promoting respiratory health in Western Pennsylvania. The collection includes images of the organization offering health services and promoting education initiatives.

Visual images of depictions of glassware manufacturing as well as images of products, product displays, glass production facilities, and employees from Bryce Brothers Company and Lenox, Inc.

An autograph album kept by Byrd R. Brown between 1941 and 1943. Brown was an activist, Civil Rights leader, attorney, and President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the NAACP. The album contains autographs of prominent athletes, civil rights leaders and actors.

Contains images from c. 1939 to 1995 of camp activities and reunions for Camp James Weldon Johnson in Beaver County that depict campers, counselors, and staff participating in summer camp activities such as hiking, fishing, and swimming.

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh selected materials connected to its 1895 opening and early years of operation. The collection includes correspondence, memos, newspaper articles, pamphlets, and other ephemera retained by the Director's Office.

Visual images from the 1960s-1970s document bird-banding activities and various landscapes of Powdermill Nature Reserve.

The 1932 diary of Charles J. Dengler Jr. is a year-long daily record kept by Dengler, a 15 year-old Pittsburgh paper boy and student living in the Northside.

Visual images depict the march in Pittsburgh on the National Day of Mourning on April 7, 1968, three days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Charles and Frankie Pace Collection contains materials that Charles Pace used to print music (letterpress design assets, stock images, collages, negative photographs, and printing plates), printed music, songbooks, photographs, correspondence, and other materials related to the Paces’ gospel-music publishing business.

Images from the 1905-1947 chronicle Chatham University’s May Day celebration, a semi-regular festival featuring elaborate theatrical and musical performances written, performed, and staged by students, faculty, and the college community for a public audience.

Founded in 1885, the Children's Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania was the first organization to provide services for underprivileged children in Western Pennsylvania; they starting the area's first foster care program. From 1893-1948 it operated as a coordinating agency for local chapters, helping them fundraise and holding an annual conference. These records consist of ten annual reports from 1936-1947.

Contains manuscript drafts of William Darlington's book, Christopher Gist's Journals, published posthumously in 1893 by J.R. Weldin & Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Contains hand-rendered and mimeographed broadsides, newsletters, and flyers that present a local snapshot of Pittsburgh's radical politics during the 1930s and 1940s.