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Pennsylvania Pitt's Partners

1935/1980

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Pennsylvania Pitt's Partners
  • Title
  • Pennsylvania Pitt's Partners
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B016.F05.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B016.F05.I02
  • Description
  • Pennsylvania Pitt’s Partners annual Spring “Clean-up, Paint-up and Fix-up Program” was 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. In 1974 the Civic Club of Allegheny County was dissolved due to financial difficulties.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pa. Pitt's Partners (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Clean Up, Paint Up and Fix Up Program.
    Buildings--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
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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