Documents and Notes about City Center Planning; United Steel Workers; Housing & Urban Development

Review of City Center Planning and Actions 1956-1972; Labor Unions (United Steel Workers) Third Meeting - union officials feel South Side being “eaten up” by Bethlehem Steel and Lehigh University; Assorted newspaper articles; Handwritten note dated 10-15-1968 to Secretary Robert C. Weaver, Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, Washington, D.C. 20410 “Congratulations you won - I lose sad day for me today my home being sold to Redevelopment Authority. American Public should know H.U.D. officials condoned Federal Money to buy 2 standard homes approx. $47,000 and one sub standard home approximately $13,000 to provide cheap land $8,300 for church parking lot H.U.D. took care of Industry-Lehigh-Church are any crumbs left for the poor negro-white-puerto rican who are deprived of decent homes. 10:26 AM” “P.S. I never got an answer from Washington” [presumed writer Anna M. D. Pongracz]; 2 sheets attributed to Dennis Kery L.H.S. ‘63 Photographs of Bethlehem’s North Side with explanatory text - From the collection of Dennis Kery © 2010 RE: color photograph of 1939 model trolley on Broad St. looking West, black and white Trolley car tracks era of Tram Rapid Transit [2 copies of each]; 1 Commencement program of Moravian College May 27, 1979 - Mary Josephine Theresa Falco Bachelor of Arts [presume a niece of Anna Pongracz]