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Box 3

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Contains 6 Results:

Box 3-4: Friends Kinzua Dam Project, 1956-1964

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note The land of Seneca Nation of Indians reservation along the Allegheny River in New York was granted to them by federal treaty signed by George Washington. In the 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned a dam named Kinzua on the Allegheny which would flood nearly the entire reservation, but would protect the city of Pittsburgh. However, there was an alternative: by utilizing a naturally occurring glacier hole to create a reservoir, the Conewango dam would produce three times as much...
Dates: 1956-1964

Friends Kinzua Dam Project. 1 folder (approximately 20 items), 1956, 1959, 1960

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence of Theodore Brinton Hetzel, reports and clippings and is divided by date. There are also copies of letters/ reports of other people relevant to the topic.

Dates: 1956, 1959, 1960

Friends Kinzua Dam Project. 1 folder (approximately 100 items), 1961

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note Theodore Brinton Hetzel was a member of the Community Relations Committee of American Friends Service Committee. Many of the letters are copies to Theodore Brinton Hetzel as a member of the committee, particularly by Walter Taylor. A number of the copies are letters to members of Congress requesting their help in the matter, and to Lee White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President, as well as letters to the editor of the New York Times, ...
Dates: 1961

Friends Kinzua Dam Project. 1 folder (approximately 60 items), 1962

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note A continuation of the issues mentioned above, including copies of letters of Walter Taylor, and especially to Philleo Nash, Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a continuation to win support from legislature for a review of the Project, and exposure via television and the press about the Kinzua Dam issue. Some published relevant materials included. During this time, Taylor left American Friends Service Committee to work entirely on the Kinzua Project in Salamanca, New York....
Dates: 1962

Friends Kinzua Dam Project. 1 folder (approximately 60 items), 1963

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note

Continuation of the Kinzua Dam issues; primarily copies of letters of Walter Taylor. Arranged by months.

Includes:

Dates: 1963

Friends Kinzua Dam Project. 1 folder (approximately 70 items), 1964

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents note

Continuation of the Kinzua Dam issues; primarily copies of letters of Walter Taylor, as well as information for U.S. Congress by various Quaker groups, newspaper clippings and some other printed material. Arranged by months.

Including:

Dates: 1964