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Guide to the Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Records 1930-1990
Metadata Details
- Title
- Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania records 1930-1990
- Subject
- Columbia Gas Systems Inc., Manufacturers Light and Heat Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Natural gas, Gas industry and trade
- Description
- The Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania records contain winter heating guide pamphlets, data sheet booklets, a historical timeline sheet of Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and the benefits of natural gas brochures. This collection includes 14 video cassettes about cultural styles of cooking over a gas range as well as presentations on cooking with herbs and spices from which nearly 200 35mm slides and lecture note cards are included. There are numerous photographs of excavations and pipeline installations through fields, over hilltops, and under bodies of water. The records also include one large scrapbook containing newspaper clippings centered on gas drilling, company hiring and promotions, and rate increases during the early 1950s. Additionally there are oversized items including 2 business awards, and several photographs and advertisements., Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania records, 1930-1990 MSS 0689, Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Columbia Gas Gift 1995 1995.0326, Columbia Gas Gift 1996 1996.0042, Columbia Gas Gift 1996 1996.0158, Columbia Gas Gift 1997 1997.0134, Columbia Gas Gift 1997 1997.0402, Columbia Gas Gift 1998 1998.0102, Columbia Gas Gift 2000 2000.0234, Manufacturers Natural Gas Company, later known as Manufacturers Light and Heat Company, began in 1885 in Pittsburgh, Pa. The company supplied natural gas to residential homes for gas lighting, cooking, and water and space heating. Through a merger in 1927, Manufacturers was acquired by the Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation (Columbia Gas Systems Inc.) and became the principal company in their Pittsburgh operating group, one of five operating groups established throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. After further realignment and corporate restructuring in 1962, the newly titled Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania began administering Manufacturers distribution responsibilities throughout the state. The Manufacturers Light and Heat Company name was eliminated in 1971, and the Pittsburgh group headquarters, in operation since 1927, was closed in 1973. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania relocated its headquarters from Pittsburgh to Canonsburg, Pa., in 2004 and announced a two billion dollar investment plan to replace aging natural gas infrastructure and stimulate economic development which began in 2007., Gift of Columbia Gas ., Processed MSS 0689 12/2011 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1930-1990
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 4.25 linear ft.
- Identifier
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss689, oclc:773372251, pitt:US-QQS-mss689
- Language
- eng
- 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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