Box 3

This series includes miscellaneous clippings and photos, handwritten Italian documents, Pitassi family history papers, Morgantown history information, as well as personal legal material. Also included is a folder labeled, “Lifesaver Thoney,” which contains accounts and letters of gratitude from several people Pietro rescued from drowning.

This series includes business correspondence sent to and from the Thoney Pietro Company; personal and professional correspondence sent to politicians, such as Senator Jennings Randolph, President Coolidge’s secretary, and Rush D. Holt, friends, local family as well as family in Italy, his Sons of Italy chapter; and more.

This series includes miscellaneous ephemera such as business cards, campaign cards, employee time books, blueprints and drawings, and the documents for the Pietro vs. Springdale lawsuit, in which Pietro claimed the borough of Springdale owed him $31,258.04 for construction work done.