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Chamber Of Commerce Of Pittsburgh; Report Of The Special Committee On Free Bridges, Giving A Review Of The Work Of The Committee Towards Securing The

Chamber Of Commerce Of Pittsburgh; Report Of The Special Committee On Free Bridges, Giving A Review Of The Work Of The Committee Towards Securing The

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General ReferenceCriminologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 9354486339
ISBN13: 9789354486333
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the height of industrial-era Pittsburgh's growth, the question of who paid to cross the Allegheny River shaped daily life, trade and politics. This historic civic report from the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh captures the organised campaign to secure truly free bridges for the city. Every line carries civic purpose. Prepared by a special committee of business leaders, the report traces the committee's efforts, reasoning and public advocacy around the free bridges movement and the drive for toll bridge abolition on the Allegheny River bridges, a defining episode in Allegheny River bridges history and a rich strand of Allegheny County Pennsylvania history. As a municipal infrastructure report, it offers a vivid window into Pittsburgh infrastructure history and the wider patterns of American urban transportation history, revealing how access, equity and commerce intersected on the riverbanks of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Researchers and students will value it as a carefully preserved primary source document and a reliable historical reference for researchers of industrial era Pittsburgh, while general readers with an interest in local history and civic life gain an intimate portrait of a city remaking its crossings and its future. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Designed for readers, historians and classic-literature collectors alike, this Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce report returns to circulation as a tangible link to the civic imagination that reshaped the bridges of the Allegheny.

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