Collections

Contains a copybook that was hand-copied from Charles Pentland's original journal, which documents the military activities of the Pittsburgh Blues between September 10, 1812 and September 10, 1813.

Collection contains photostats of Herman Husband’s sermons and the Regulator Papers used by Mary Elinor Lazenby during her research to write her three part work, Herman Husband: A Story of His Life, on the Revolutionary War era Quaker in 1940. The collection also includes Lazenby’s research correspondence and a scrapbook documenting critical response to her book and its connection to Husband’s descendant, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel.

Collection includes correspondence between Max A. Lauffer, a University of Pittsburgh professor and researcher who contributed greatly to the study of viruses during his career (1944-1986), and Jonas Salk.

Collection includes genealogies, histories, correspondence, memoirs, journals, business and legal papers, photographs and memorabilia from the McFarland-Hall-Beck families, who are three families that originally settled in Virginia (now West Virginia).

Contains selected images documenting Pittsburgh neighborhoods, redevelopment projects, and local businesses and organizations, mostly collected by Melvin Seidenberg that document the activities of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the Irene Kaufmann Settlement.

Consists of summaries from annual reports from the Monongahela Navigation Company from 1840-1897 detailing damage to locks and dams on the Monongahela River due to floods and ice.

Visual images depicts street scenes and businesses, people, homes and farms, schools and churches, and community events and activities which have defined the history of Monroeville throughout the years (1849-2007).