Bellefield from the hills, Pennsylvania, 1905 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Step back in time with Bellefield from the hills, Pennsylvania, 1905, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Bellefield from the hills]
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Bellefield from the hills, Pennsylvania, 1905
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Bellefield, a hillside district in Pittsburgh's Oakland section, sat in 1905 at the edge of a city built on steel, iron, coal, and glass. Mill smoke drifted over the rivers below, while the surrounding hills were filling with homes for managers, professors, and merchants who wanted air and quiet away from the works. The Carnegie Institute had opened its library, museum, and music hall in Oakland only a decade earlier, and Schenley Park, given to the city by Mary Schenley, was becoming the green retreat that the district's residents valued. Pittsburgh's growing schools and cultural institutions gave the area a civic identity that set it apart from the mill valleys, and this view from the hills shows how those two worlds sat side by side.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | johnston, r. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,391 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bellefield from the hills] |
| Reference | PA Bellefield from the hills 1905 |
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