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Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection | Lester W. Milbrath Papers | Love Canal Photographs and Maps | Full-Text Articles from the Niagara Gazette | Love Canal Reference Collection
Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection
MS 100
Microfilm of articles about Love Canal from the New York Times, the Buffalo Evening News, and the Niagara Gazette for the period 1978-1980 with an index to the coverage and a collection of more than two hundred photographic slides of the Love Canal area taken by Dr. Ploughman. In 1977-1980 Dr. Ploughman was a member of the University at Buffalo Sociology Department's Love Canal Research Group. Her dissertation, "The creation of newsworthy events: an analysis of newspaper coverage of the man-made disaster at Love Canal" (1984), addresses the role of the news media in the Love Canal disaster. A copy of the dissertation is included in the collection.
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Lester W. Milbrath Papers, 1971-1990
22/7F/668
Papers of Lester W. Milbrath, University at Buffalo political science professor, on environmental issues including Love Canal, nuclear waste at the West Valley site, and Great Lakes water quality. Collection also includes conference papers, articles and book chapters written or co-authored by Dr. Milbrath. Also files on the formation of the Environmental Studies Center at the University, including its annual reports and other publications.
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Love Canal Photographs and Maps
Love Canal Images is a digital collection of photographs and maps. It includes photographs and maps published in New York State and United States federal government documents; photographs and maps collected by the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier and the Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency; and photographs taken by news services at the University at Buffalo, Pat Brown, Penelope D. Ploughman, and others.
Full-Text Articles from the Niagara Gazette
A selection of full-text articles on Love Canal, originally published in the Niagara Gazzette, is available online. Republished with permission.
The University Archives holds a small collection of books and government documents related to Love Canal. Use of this material is restricted to the Special Collections Research Room; these books and documents do not circulate. Consult BISON, the catalog of the holdings of University at Buffalo Libraries, for the availability of all books and documents related to Love Canal.
