PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - The City of Pittsburgh is looking for missing or lost records and artifacts through a new reclamation program.
When the City began evaluating and cataloging their historical materials in 2016, they quickly realized many items, some hundreds of years old, were missing.
"The program is about bringing home these pieces of the City's history that not only tell Pittsburgh's tale, but they are things that we still reference to these days," said Executive Assistant to the Mayor James Hill.
The items range from maps and minute books to blueprints and records from former Pittsburgh mayors, according to City Archivist Nick Hartley.
"Basically anything that might have some City of Pittsburgh identification on it," he said. "We're especially interested in seeing minutes from our commissions, maps, correspondence."
The City of Pittsburgh is offering amnesty to those who return these items.
Thus far, the City has recovered a missing minute book chronicling the Borough of Pittsburgh from 1794 to 1802 and a collection of papers from the City's first City Recorder.
Members of the public who believe they are in possession of the City's historical items may contact City Archivist Nick Hartley at nicholas.hartley@pittsburghpa.gov. or at 412-255-0873.
