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Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners, 31st Annual Convention, Pottsville (1917)

About this source

The Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners held its 31st Annual Convention in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on July 10, 11, and 12, 1917. The convention’s official program — published locally in Pottsville for distribution to delegates — is digitized at the Internet Archive under item identifier pactycomm1917_images. The program is in the public domain in the United States by virtue of its publication date (prior to 1929).

Why this source matters for Schuylkill County history

For researchers interested in Schuylkill County’s civic and governmental history at the eve of the United States’s entry into the First World War, the 1917 Pottsville convention sits at a useful chronological marker: the United States had entered the First World War in April 1917, the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act was signed roughly three weeks after the convention adjourned (August 10, 1917), and the U.S. Fuel Administration would shortly begin allocating Pennsylvania anthracite under federal authority for the war’s duration. The specific contents of the program (the delegate slate, the addresses listed, the Pottsville host committee) have not yet been catalogued on schuylkillhub; downstream pages that cite the program will deep-link to the specific archive.org page scan.

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  • This is the convention’s program, not a record of proceedings; the actual addresses and resolutions adopted at the convention would be in a separately-published proceedings volume (not yet identified on schuylkillhub).
  • The page metadata above is drawn from the Internet Archive item record for pactycomm1917_images and the work’s title page.
  • Where the program is cited in a downstream page on schuylkillhub, the citation deep-links to the specific archive.org page scan.

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