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4-1-1965

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This photograph shows the the Urban Renewal Project area of Allentown before construction began. As in many cities, urban renewal in Allentown displaced many individuals and families. While Allentown did achieve some new apartment complex's, elderly housing, and municipal buildings, a 1973 moratorium on subsidized housing, signed by Preisident Nixon, left much of the city with large areas of vacant land where there had once been neighborhoods

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Bibliography: http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-3DE
Retrieved 5 July 2012 http://www.lehighcounty.org/Departments/Corrections/LehighCountyPrison/HistoryofLCP/tabid/280/Default.aspx
Retrieved 5 July 2012 http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/about-us/museum-expansion
Retrieved 5 July 2012

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

aerial; railroad; urban renewal; construction; vacant land; industry;

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