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[The Levee from Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[The Levee from Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Levee from Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Levee from Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Levee from Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pa.]

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A steamboat bearing the name "Ohio" lies at the levee beneath the Smithfield Street Bridge, which crosses the Monongahela River just above its junction with the Allegheny. The view comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for large-format views of American towns and waterways made around 1900. Pittsburgh's riverfront was then a busy working waterfront, where steamboats, barges and freight moved the output of its mills and factories. The glass negative, with a crack running down its right edge, preserves that river traffic as it stood in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negative cracked from top along right side. Ohio" on steamboat. "G 5000" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036460. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSteamboats. Levees. Bridges. Rivers.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.United States--Pennsylvania--Monongahela River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67936

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