Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Lynn Corcoran, In Our Own Backyard: The First Love Canal collection
Collection — Box: 1-5
Identifier: MS 158
Overview
A portion of the original
video footage shot for the PBS documentary, "In Our Own Backyard," produced by
Lynn Corcoran, with detailed tape log notes.
Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier records
Collection — Box: 1-195, 196+-197+, 198-202, MC 4.12
Identifier: MS 65
Overview
The records of the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier (ETF) document the organizing of a unified grassroots response to Love Canal, one of the nation's most significant environmental disasters. Records include administrative documents, correspondence, subject files, extensive resource libraries, habitability/environmental studies, litigation, and documentation on other local toxic waste sites.
Love Canal Repository Grant records
Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: MS 89
Overview
Kathleen DeLaney's records pertaining to the grant funded by the Niagara County Environmental Fund in 2000 to collect information on area institution's historic Love Canal disaster area document collections.
Penelope Ploughman Love Canal collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS 100
Overview
Slides, photographs, and clippings about the environmental disaster known as Love Canal collected by Penelope Ploughman for her dissertation, The Creation of Newsworthy Events: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Man-Made Disaster at Love Canal.
Elwin H. Powell papers
Collection — Box: 1-95
Identifier: 22/3F/1088
Overview
The papers of Elwin H.
Powell (1925-2001), activist and sociology professor at the University at
Buffalo. Collection includes extensive research and writings concerning
political events in the UB and Buffalo communities.
Found in:
University Archives
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Elwin H. Powell papers