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Anna Pongracz Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0139
Abstract
This collection consists of Anna Pongracz papers mostly related to Urban Renewal and other housing and city planning developments especially in South Bethlehem (PA) from 1960s to 1980s. Anna Pongracz was a community organizer and played a substantial role during the planning processes of the housing and city development projects. She was the speaker for the community and represented the "under represented" South Bethlehem residences.
Dates:
1953-1981
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Philadelphia Surveyor John H. Levering Ledger
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0173
Abstract
This folio itemizes an interesting view into
the northwestward expansion of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in an era of growth in the
mid-19th century. What is shown by the surveying entries is the incorporation, by the 1854 Act
of Consolidation, of Roxborough Township and the Borough of Manayunk into the City of Philadelphia’s
21st Ward. A list of landowners requiring surveying services reflects on Lehigh University’s collection
of 18th and 19th century industrial collections with...
Dates:
1873 - 1888
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Community development, Urban 1
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- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Low-income housing 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)—Description and Travel 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)—History 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.)—Surveys 1
- Real estate development 1
- Real property surveys 1
- Schuylkill River Heritage Corridor (Pa) 1
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- Bethlehem Steel Corporation 1
- John H. Levering (1831 – c.1897) 1
- Lehigh University 1
- Levering, John H. 1
- Pongracz, Anna, 1912-1986 1
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