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| Title: | Elizabeth Gallery Letter to Gilbert Gude |
| Author: | Gallery, Elizabeth |
| Date: | 02/29/1972 |
Document Information
Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | Gallery, Elizabeth |
| Title: | Elizabeth Gallery Letter to Gilbert Gude |
| Date: | 02/29/1972 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| Collection name: | Manuscript Collection, Gilbert Gude Papers |
| Document location: | Box 81, Mrs. Gallery folder |
| Publication location: | |
| Publisher: |
Descriptive Metadata
| Editorial notes: | |
| Description: | Letter from Elizabeth Gallery to Congressman Gilbert Gude, complaining that the eminent domain seizure of her business property, a bookstore, for subway construction, would drive her out of business. After seizure, the agency offered to rent the building back to her for what she says was an exhorbitant price. She expresses much bitterness over what she says is big business destroying her 81 year old small business. |
| Subjects: | Metro, Metro construction, eminent domain, business, bookstore, Congress, Congressman Gilbert Gude, Elizabeth Gallery |
Technical Metadata
| Date scanned: | 12/06/2005 |
| Person scanning: | Roger Mellen |
| Date converted: | 12/06/2005 |
| Person converting: | Roger Mellen |
| Scanner used: | Fujitsu fi-4220C |
| OCR program: | PixEdit 7 Rev. 7.3.6 |
| Technical notes: | Letter attached to Gude's response and letters to Congressional committee chair regarding this issue. |