[Allegheny Arsenal entrance, Pittsburgh, Pa.] – Historic Print
![[Allegheny Arsenal entrance, Pittsburgh, Pa.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/30/301025c4987d-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Allegheny Arsenal entrance, Pittsburgh, Pa.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Allegheny Arsenal entrance, Pittsburgh, Pa.]
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The gate at the Allegheny Arsenal entrance anchors this view of the grounds in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. The arsenal dates to the early 1800s and became a federal munitions site with a grim history, most notably the explosion of July 1862 that killed dozens of workers, many of them young women who filled cartridges. The record notes the site as a Pittsburg Storage & Supply depot, which suggests how the grounds had shifted toward storage and commercial use by the time this glass negative was made, sometime between 1900 and 1915. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced the image, documented American towns and industrial sites during those years.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. Pittsburg Storage & Supply depot |
| Subjects | Armories. Gates.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 793 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-68790 |
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