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  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on The Rise and Significance of the Public Health Movement


id: 46025
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  the Department for the Improvement of Social Conditions of the New York Charity Organization Society


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id: 23507
title: A Short History of Pittsburgh 1758-1908
author: Church, Samuel Harden
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  Pittsburgh is situated, Washington came there as the agent of Governor the name of Pittsburgh to General Forbes when the place was captured governor of Pennsylvania summoned two Indian chiefs from Pittsburgh to both English and French traders might meet at Pittsburgh and carry on in a state of decay, a new fort was built in Pittsburgh at Ninth and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway in 1856, that line reaching following is a list of the mayors of Pittsburgh: mills, Homestead with its Carnegie works, and East Pittsburgh with its Monongahela River from Pittsburgh to the West Virginia State line (91.5 Pittsburgh''s first glass works was built in 1797 by James O''Hara. The water supply of Pittsburgh is taken from the Allegheny River and names captured fort Pittsburgh, 14, 29; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 49 Washington, George, the first Pittsburgher, 13;


id: 40037
title: Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt; Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets
author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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  [Illustration: BLOCK HOUSE OF FORT PITT. =August, 1759.=--Fort Pitt begun by Gen. John Stanwix. =July, 1763.=--Fort Pitt besieged by Indians. =July, 1776.=--Indian conference at Fort Pitt.--Pontiac and Washington learned that a detachment of French had marched from the fort Indians, he honored Col. George Washington, who commanded the troops When the Indians returned to the Fort, they brought with them twelve or A few weeks before this Col. Bouquet, from his post at Fort Ligonier, Just sixty days after the taking of Fort Duquesne, William Pitt wrote a there, that Ecuyer wrote to Col. Bouquet, "We are so crowded in the fort points--Gen. Bradstreet was to advance by way of the lakes, and Col. Bouquet from Fort Pitt. Fort Pitt at that time was under the command of Capt. the Fort was erected in 1759 and 60, but by Col. Bouquet in 1764. THE BLOCK HOUSE OF FORT PITT


id: 40116
title: Edith and John: A Story of Pittsburgh
author: Farquhar, Franklin Smith
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  "Mother," said Star, after awhile, "I am going away tomorrow to look for "Have Edith come down," said Mrs. Jarney to her maid; and she told Star to dinner with me," said Edith, rising, and still holding Star''s hands. "Nothing," piped Eli. Then turning to the stranger, who was a young man, Peter said, Barton," said John, bowing to Star; and then, bowing to Edith, he "Here is Mr. Winthrope, Edith," said Star, as she placed a hand upon her "Star," said Edith, turning upon Miss Barton, in a strange clear voice, "No, no, dear Edith; he is here--Mr. Winthrope look into her face?" said "Good bye," said John, taking Edith''s hand again. "I feel new all over, dear Star," said Edith, smiling down upon her "Oh, Edith, I know," said Star, with a mischievous look. "But he has asked to come again, Edith," said Star, hopefully.


id: 43259
author: nan
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  stage, wagon, boat, or on horseback, often made Pittsburgh a stopping The first Election under the Act Incorporating the City of Pittsburgh, the streets, lanes and alleys of the City of Pittsburgh, where there public streets and highways of the city ... house, shop or building, over or out upon any street, square or alley, between Cherry alley and Grant street--thirty dollars." _Commonwealth, house in the public square, called the Diamond, were built of brick, "Pittsburg is a considerable town, generally built of brick.... market house, bank, and several churches." _Palmer''s Journal of formed, who intend building steam boats to run between this place and of steam boat navigation on the western waters--and the day is not far City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the property of the United States, miles from Pittsburgh.--To a person qualified to keep a public house City of Pittsburg, Containing 120 feet front on Wood Street and fifty

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  Pittsburgh in 1816 Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter


id: 43769
title: A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg
author: Douglas, Amanda M.
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  A sequel to "A Little Girl in Old New York" Daffodil looked at her mother with wondering eyes and said it''s a great thing for your father to come home safe." Daffodil said in an imperious tone, "Do you like my father? had been a very pretty girl but the child was not much like her mother "And you will not mind if we love the little boy a good deal?" almost supper time when Daffodil came in, leading her little brother And so the little girl went out of Pittsburg with good wishes, and "I have come for the little girl," she said, "having her guardian''s feel like a little girl and I don''t mean to be married in a long time. "Grandad wants you to come over there," Mrs. Carrick said to her A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORK


id: 46025
title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its Social Forces
author: Various
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  mortality, school hygiene, street cleaning, tenement house sanitation, thirteen years'' work," said Mr. Benson, who was in New York at the time [Illustration: PITTSBURGH FROM THE SOUTH SIDE--A CITY OF CONTRASTS.] Forbes street and Fifth avenue run east from the jail and court house usually plenty of time to stop; but for city streets and Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, for the city to construct and control it, as in New York, The city of Pittsburgh at the time of this survey possessed six private during the past ten years to place the charitable work of Pittsburgh In new tenement houses an independent water supply is required for Comparing Pittsburgh''s housing laws with the new building code of A visitor not long since was in a new tenement house in Pittsburgh, [Illustration: ONE PITTSBURGH TYPE OF ONE-FAMILY HOUSE. on general housing conditions in Pittsburgh was published by the


id: 46029
title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People
author: Various
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  In New York city two years ago we raised a great outcry about child No American city presents in a more clear-cut way than Pittsburgh the by helping the landlady in her house work, the man saved room rent. The men find that it costs more to live, too, when working in the mills, New York as a boy of eighteen years, and worked for a short time as a twelve hours a day at some work, while if every man in the country working sons lived at home, besides four younger children. Pittsburgh as a city of working women. readjustment, to see Pittsburgh as a city of working women. Pittsburgh and the neighboring mill towns they live and work. in the steel industry in Pittsburgh has been, for fifteen years, towards workers; and the men work not six days, but seven a week.


