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Committee of 100 on the Federal City (Fonds containing MS2017 and MS2131)
Fonds
Identifier: Fonds-Committee of 100
Scope and Contents
This fonds contains correspondence, reports, minutes, publications, newspaper articles, memorandum, bank statements, financial records, court case records, maps, blueprints, and websites. The material dates from 1909-2023 with the bulk of the material falling within the dates 1930-2007.The material in this fonds document the Committee's stance on the issues it chose to address within the areas of planning, historic preservation, and transportation. Within the subject of transportation there...
Dates:
1909-2023; Majority of material found within 1930-2009
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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- Automobile parking 1
- Buildings 1
- City planning 1
- City traffic 1
- Express highways 1
- Federal Triangle (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Height restrictions 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Home rule 1
- Housing 1
- Local transit 1
- Maps 1
- Parks 1
- Planning 1
- Regional planning 1
- Roads 1
- Shaw (Washington, D.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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- American Planning and Civic Association 1
- Delano, Frederic Adrian 1
- Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968 1
- Green, Constance McLaughlin 1
- McGrath, Dorn Charles 1
- George Washington University
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