Emerson Venable, Ronald J. Chleboski, Robert W. Dunlap, Oscar Hedenberg, Gene Kelly, Air Pollution Control Association, Allegheny County Health Department (Pa.). Bureau of Air Pollution Control. Variance Board, Allegheny County Health Department (Pa.), American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemists, First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Duquesne Light Company, Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, Peabody High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Pennsylvania Chemical Society, Shenango Incorporated, United Smoke Council, United States Steel Corporation ยท 1899
Papers include correspondence, reports, news clippings, minutes, and publications. The majority of this collection relates to the study of air pollution in the United States and Allegheny County, Pa. Although material prior to 1970 in included, the majority of the material follows the passage of the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970. Reports studying the production of air pollution in the county constitute the majority of the material. There is little relating to Venable's personal life.