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Committee of 100 on the Federal City records [Part I]
Collection
Identifier: MS2017
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, publications, newspaper articles, memorandum, bank statements, financial records, maps, and blueprints. The material dates from 1932-2003 with the bulk of the material falling within the dates 1950-87. The majority of the documents focus on city planning and transportation issues. These detail the various highway and rapid transit projects facing the district, as well as looking at zoning regulations and legal procedures and the debates...
Dates:
1932-1995; Majority of material found within Circa 1970 - Circa 1999
Highway Bridge Drawings
Collection
Identifier: MS2264
Abstract
The collection consists of blueprints for the Highway Bridge in Washington D.C., as proposed and designed in 1901 by a Board of Engineers appointed by the Secretary of War. They were produced as part of a 25 October 1901 report to Congress on the Highway Bridge.
Dates:
1901
Peter S. Craig papers
Collection
Identifier: MS2066
Abstract
Peter Stebbins Craig was a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who led legal challenges against the construction of interstate highways through the city in the 1960s and 1970s. Taking the side of residents whose homes would be razed for new freeways, Craig successfully battled developers, business leaders, and members of Congress to block seven multilane highways that would have destroyed 200,000 housing units within the city. This collection contains reports and studies, correspondence, legal...
Dates:
1904-1983; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975
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