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Guide to the Buhl Foundation Photographs 1929-1950
Metadata Details
- Title
- Buhl Foundation photographs 1929-1950
- Subject
- Chatham Village (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Rental housing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Buhl Foundation photographs are housed in three archival boxes which were separated from the Buhl Foundation Records (MSS 187). The boxes contain scrapbook pages of photographs of homes in Chatham Village, the Buhl Foundation model housing development located on Mt. Washington. The photographs contain descriptive annotations and date from 1929 to 1950 and consist of interior, exterior, and aerial views of the Village homes in summer and winter, Chatham Hall (the community center), recreational areas, and snapshots of the development residents and children during holiday events and at the school play yard. The model homes were furnished by the Boggs and Buhl department store. The folders are labeled and dated according to the topic of the scrapbook. Box 1 also contains one folder of photographs of the Buhl Optical Co. building and the Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, Buhl Foundation photographs, 1929-1950, MSP 0187, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Buhl Foundation Gift 1993 1993.0310, The Buhl Foundation Board diversified their work in 1931 with the construction of Chatham Village, a housing project in the Pittsburgh Mount Washington neighborhood. Chatham Village offered residents attractive and affordable rental housing, a commodity in short supply in Pittsburgh. The Board of Managers favored a long term rental policy over ownership because of the volatile economy of the day. Chatham Village gave families the opportunity to ride out the Depression until the economy improved. Chatham Village accomplished all of the 1931 goals established by the Foundation. It is still a model for many housing projects throughout the country. The Foundation maintained Chatham Village as rental property until 1960 when it was turned into cooperative housing and sold to owner occupants., Gift of Buhl Foundation ., Processed MSP 0187 04/12 Sarah Ecklund, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Buhl Foundation, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1929-1950
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, photographs, 1.50 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:793349418, pitt:US-QQS-msp187
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-msp187
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Mt. Washington (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Rights
- 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., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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