Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham / drawn from nature, lithographed & published by Otto Krebs, Pittsburgh, Pa. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham / drawn from nature, lithographed & published by Otto Krebs, Pittsburgh, Pa., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham / drawn from nature, lithographed & published by Otto Krebs, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Few views capture the three communities at once as this long panorama does: Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Birmingham, spread along the rivers that meet at the Point. Otto Krebs, a Pittsburgh publisher, issued the lithograph around 1871, when bird's-eye panoramas were a popular way to show fast-growing industrial cities. Allegheny was then a separate city across the Allegheny River, and Birmingham was a neighboring community on the south bank of the Monongahela, so the sheet records a time when the riverfront was a patchwork of towns. Its wide format, about 49 by 109 centimeters, lets viewers trace the rivers, streets and waterfront that drove the region's growth.
| Created / published | Pittsburgh, Pa. : Published by Otto Krebs, c1871. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color ; 49 x 109 cm (image with border and accompanying text) |
| Genre | PA |
| Notes | 3932B U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 832.1 Exhibited in: Panorama of Pittsburgh : Nineteenth-century printed views" at the Frick Art & Historical Center |
| Subjects | Rivers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1870-1880. Pittsburgh (Pa.)--1870-1880.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 691 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114858 |
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