Sweeping Pittsburgh Streets

1935/1980

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Sweeping Pittsburgh Streets
  • Title
  • Sweeping Pittsburgh Streets
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B016.F06.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B016.F06.I01
  • Description
  • Two young ladies reprimand a local who appears to be in the process of sweeping his garbage into the street. In an attempt to change the City of Pittsburgh’s image, Pa. Pitt’s Partners began an annual Spring “Clean-up, Paint-up and Fix-up Program,” sponsored by the Civic Club of Allegheny County, to improve and beautify Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods. The program, active through the 1940s, was performed under the guidance of local teachers. In addition to the clean-up program to beautify the community, the Civic Club established smoke abatement regulations, education programs for workers and immigrants, child labor regulation, inner city playgrounds, contagious disease hospitals, public concerts, and the maintenance of public gardens. The hard work paid off when Pittsburgh won second place in the Cleanest City National Contest in 1949.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pa. Pitt’s Partners.Clean-up, Paint-up and Fix-up Program.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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