Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents The scrapbook of Pittsburgh alderman and police magistrate Harry B. Fitzgerald pertains primarily to his political career. The scrapbook consists mostly of newspaper clippings, which document his election and reelection as alderman, criminal cases brought before Fitzgerald in his capacity as alderman, Pittsburgh's Equal Rights Law and Fitzgerald's rigid enforcement thereof, and his appointment as police magistrate. Correspondence in the scrapbook includes congratulatory telegrams and letters...