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Annual Reports Of The Committees Of The Select And Common Councils Of The City Of Allegheny, With The Report Of The City Controller And Other City Off

Annual Reports Of The Committees Of The Select And Common Councils Of The City Of Allegheny, With The Report Of The City Controller And Other City Off

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General Reference21st Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9354487483
ISBN13: 9789354487484
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before skyscrapers, a city spoke in ledgers and ordinances. A city lays itself bare. For anyone fascinated by civic machinery, it is a window into budgets, policy, and responsibility at street level, recorded without ornament yet full of consequence for readers now. This volume brings together the municipal annual report of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania for the year ending Dec. 31, 1869: city council committee reports from Select and Common Councils, the City Controller's figures, statements from working offices, and the Directors of the Poor with the steward's poor farm annual report. Read it for the human scale behind the headings: street repairs, public order, relief, salaries, arrears, and the steady arithmetic of keeping a growing river town running. As a historic government document collection, it is also a trove of urban history primary sources. The accounts illuminate 19th century city finances in plain detail, while appended city ordinances and acts and relevant Pennsylvania legislative documents show how local power was written, debated, and enforced. For genealogy and local history research, these year 1869 municipal records offer names, roles, and institutional footprints that can anchor family stories and neighbourhood timelines. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this facsimile reprint edition is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it belongs on the shelf of non-fiction collectors as readily as in the hands of curious readers who want to hear a 19th-century city speak for itself.

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