University of Pittsburgh Archives Services Center (including Archives of Industrial Society, United Electrical Workers (UE) / Labor Archives, and University Archives)

Bethlehem Mines Corporation, Police Department Records, 1926-1935
        Extremely detailed reports of private police efforts to fight labor organizing

Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) collection, 1972 - (AIS 70:21)
        Watchdog organization concerned with air quality. See also
        Michelle Madoff Collection, 1970-1977 [president of GASP]
        Patricia Pelkofer Collection, 1969 - [president of GASP]

William E. Guckert Papers, 1930-1970 (AIS 95:5)
        Papers of conservationist particularly concerned with strip mining & water quality.

Mellon Institute of Research Smoke Investigation Activities, 1911-1957 (AIS 83:7)
        Scientific research institute concerned with smoke and air pollution
        Include Smoke and Dust Abatement League Records, 1917-1968)

Draft and War Resistance Movement Collection, 1966-1972
        Include individual non-compliance statements, lots of publications

Civic Club of Allegheny County Records, 1896-1949
        Pre-eminent Pittsburgh womenís club; papers include materials organization itself plus its many interests,
        including immigration, juvenile courts, playgrounds, education, and the environment

Urban League of Pittsburgh Records, 1917-1968 (AIS 81:11)
        Minutes evidence internal operations & concerns of group; African-American life evidenced by department
        records, office files (on particular issues), and topical reports

Allegheny County Jail, 1863-1932
        Journal (Day Book, 3 vols.) looks promising; inmate records

Pittsburgh PA. Dept. of Public Safety, Bureau of Police. Records 1896-1935
        Complaint books especially useful; records of arrest also available

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Collection (99:13)
        Conservation organization. Records related to individual sites, such as Jennings Nature Reserve, Moraine
        State Park, McConnellís Mills, Ohiopyle.

African-American Jazz Preservation Society Oral History Collection
        Transcribed

Jennie Bradley Roessing Papers (AIS 64:24)
        Suffragist; papers mostly correspondence

Records of the Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh, 1923-1980 (bulk 1930-1949, 1974-1980)
        AIS 87:5 [2 cubic feet (2 boxes)]
        The Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh was founded in 1930 as the Birth Control League of
        Allegheny County, an indirect successor to the earlier organizations, The Birth Control League of Western
        Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County Birth Control League. This collection contains history, by-laws,
        correspondence, minutes, pamphlets, brochures, and scrapbooks (1930-1949). Correspondence includes
        communication with the American Birth Control League (New York) and holds one TLS from Margaret
        Sanger, dated March 2, 1923. Records include minutes, some correspondence, information on activities,
        scrapbooks.

Order of Italian Sons and Daughters of America Records, 1929-195? (AIS 75:16)
        Highlights include Mortuary Files (data on birthplace, occupation, family, immigration)

USX Corp. (Duquense Works and National Works) Records, 1904-1990 (UE 91:6)
        Lots of employee records. Pension Files include information on employee career tracks, birth, migration,
        family, and cycle of work and lay-offs

United Steelworkers of America, Local 1397 (Homestead, PA) Minute Books, 1937-1945.
        Discussions of internal dynamics of union, including grievances, union growth, shop-floor issues, reactions
        to labor legislation and to employers.

Records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Pennsylvania (miscellaneous posts), 1861-1940
        AIS 86:7micro [11 microfilm reels]
        The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a veterans organization formed in 1866 for soldiers who
        fought for the North during the American Civil War. This collection contains the microfilmed records
        of miscellaneous posts in Pennsylvania including the following information: minutes, rosters, personal war
        sketches, descriptive books, ledgers, and receipt books.

Records of the Agora, 1928-1985.  MSS #38 [.75 linear feet (2 boxes)]
        The Agora was a men's social and educational club in Pittsburgh, Pa. These records include
        correspondence, administrative material and meeting minutes of the Agora and its precursor organization,
        the Pittsburgh Torch Club.

Papers of the Baum Family, 1769-1976.  MSS# 110 [6.25 linear feet (13 Boxes)]
        The Baums were prominent landowners in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the
        19th and early 20th century. Baum Boulevard takes its name from the family. The Baum family became
        connected to the Winebiddles, early Allegheny County settlers, through marriage, in 1892. The collection
        include genealogies, personal correspondence, deeds, mortgages, and other property records, business,
        estate, and financial papers, and printed ephemera documenting the personal and financial status of
        members of two prominent landholding families in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh from the late
        18th through the mid-20th century.

Records of Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), 1969-1988.  MSS #43 [4.5 linear feet (9 boxes)]
        The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) was a Pittsburgh and Allegheny County area citizens
        action group founded in 1969 by Michelle Madoff. An important goal of the organization was to prevent
        and reduce the existing forms of ecological degradation.

Records of Kennywood Park, 1906-1972
MSS#141 [1.0 linear feet]
        Kennywood Park is the longest running and best known amusement park in Allegheny County.
        Kennywood is located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Monongahela River and
        across from the Edgar Thomson Works of United States Steel. These records include daily receipts,
        monthly and yearly reports, special trolley car reports, release forms for contest winners, insurance
        papers, tax receipts, shareholder agreements, group picnic lists, licensing agreements, contracts, business
        correspondence and other sundry items.