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Resources:

General North Side Resources
Name North Side Leadership Conference
Description The North Side Leadership conference is a coalition of Northside community-based organizations, committed to addressing mutual concerns through a united approach in order to promote and enhance the vitality, quality of life and image of Pittsburgh’s North Side.
Address 415 East Ohio Street
Pittsburgh , PA 15212
Phone 412 231 4714
Website http://www.pittsburghnorthside.com
   
Name Northside Community Development Fund
Description The Northside Community Development Fund (Northside Fund) is a 501(c)(3) CDFI certified by the Department of Treasury. Established in 2000, the organization is dedicated to a mission of “providing financing and development services to promote community development on Pittsburgh’s Northside.” The Northside Fund operates two lines of business-commercial lending and development services and commercial real estate investment. A third line of business-residential financing services-will be launched in 2006.
Website http://www.nscdfund.org
   
Name Riverside Center for Innovation
Description Located on Pittsburgh's North Shore is the Riverside Center for Innovation, an office complex that helps both start-ups and growing businesses excel by providing the following services: incubator services, BIC services, special services, Save Smart Program, loan packaging, business plan competition, business counseling, and Brownfield environmental assessment services.
Website http://www.riversidecenterforinnovation.com
   
Name POP City Media
Website http://www.popcitymedia.com/neighborhoods/northshore.aspx
   
Name The Andy Warhol Museum
Website http://www.warhol.org
   
Name The Pittsburgh Children's Museum
Website http://www.pittsburghkids.org
   
Name The National Aviary
Description The National Aviary is America’s only independent indoor nonprofit bird zoo. Located in historic North Side’s West Park.
Website http://www.aviary.org
   
Name The Mattress Factory
Description The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into — room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists. Located in the historic Mexican War Streets of Pittsburgh’s North Side since 1977, the Mattress Factory is one of few museums of its kind anywhere.
Website http://www.mattress.org
   
General Local Historic Resources
Name In and About Allegheny
Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~njm1/Allegheny-bk1.html
   
Name Pittsburgh - In Ye Olden Times
Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~njm1/Pittsburgh-in-Ye-Olden-Time1.html
   
Name Allegheny County, PA Genealogy
Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/
Contact Clare Peden Midgley
   
Name Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center
Website http://www.pghhistory.org
   
Name Historic Pittsburgh
Description Full-Text Maps Images Finding Aids Census Chronology HSWP Catalog

Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. This Web site enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the Heinz History Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Chatham College Archives. The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries, museums and institutions of higher learning in providing centralized access to selections of their respective historic materials.

Searching for Allegheny City maps and images on the Historic Pittsburgh
website:

Maps:  After opening the Historic Pittsburgh website
  1. click on "Maps"
  2. Click on G.M. Hopkins Collections
  3. click on Brouse
  4. Select one of the following maps of Allegheny City or the North Side: 1872 Pittsburgh and Allegheny, 1876 Pittsburgh and Allegheny, 1890 Allegheny City Vol.1, 1890 Allegheny City Vol.2, 1901 Allegheny City Vol.1, 1902 Allegheny City Vol.2, 1925 City of Pittsburgh (North Side) Vol.4, 1925 City of Pittsburgh (North Side) Vol.5.
Images:  After opening the Historic Pittsburgh website
  1. click on Images
  2. click on Explore
  3. click on Location
  4. either us the map (the best section is the large area where the original center of Allegheny City was --- it is called North Side) or scroll down in the list below the map to "North Side." You'll find hundreds of great images of North Side locations.
Website http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/
   
General State Historical Resources
Name The Pennsylvania Historical Assocation
Description The Pennsylvania Historical Assocation promotes interest in Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic history for scholars, museum and historical society and site professionals, and members of the public.
Website http://www.pa-history.org
   
Name Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Description Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is a quarterly journal that publishes the best of current scholarship on the history of the Commonwealth and the region. In addition to regular articles, the journal features annotated documents, book reviews, and reviews of museum exhibits, films, and historical collections. Published since 1934, Pennsylvania History is the official journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA).
Website http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu
   
General National Historic Resources
Name The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Description The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.
Website http://www.nationaltrust.org
   
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