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[Schenley Park and farm district, Pittsburgh, Pa.] – Historic Print

[Schenley Park and farm district, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Schenley Park and farm district, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Pittsburgh collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Schenley Park and farm district, Pittsburgh, Pa.]

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Memorial Hall of Allegheny County stands at the center of this view, its classical bulk rising above the open fields and farm plots of Schenley Park. Mary Schenley gave the land to the city in 1889, and the hall, dedicated in 1910 to honor Civil War veterans, later anchored the edge of the Oakland district. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American cities in the early 1900s, made the glass-plate negative, and the scene shows how much of the park's outer ground still looked rural before the surrounding neighborhoods filled in.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Memorial Hall of Allegheny County in center. G 8164" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500304. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74703

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