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Volume 30
Number 19
May 28,
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Hillman gets P&LE records
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Hillman Library's
archives were bolstered this month with the addition of the
former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad records. The
records were donated to Pitt by Jack Polaritz, director of the
Western Pennsylvania Interactive Railroad Learning Center
Project, a subsidiary of the Coraopolis Economic
Revitalization Center.
Hundreds of boxes of employee
job applications, labor union agreements, maps and other
historically important documents (some dating back to the
1870s) were donated in an effort to make the railroad's past
available to the public. These records tell part of the
history of operations and personnel of the P&LE, which
played a major role in the development of the region's steel
industry.
"This is a very rich collection," said Ruth
Carter, head of the University Library System's Archives
Service Center. "These records show where the P&LE
employees were born, their wages, the railroad's employee
turnover. The materials are a significant addition to the
Archives of Industrial Society, which already has an extensive
P&LE photo collection, heavily used by researchers."
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