Pittsburgh in the beginning. Fort Prince George established February 17, 1754. Modern Pittsburgh is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad – Antique 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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Pittsburgh in the beginning. Fort Prince George established February 17, 1754. Modern Pittsburgh is served by the Pennsylvania Railroad
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Few Pittsburgh images set the city's frontier beginnings beside its modern rail life as directly as this one. Its caption dates the founding of Fort Prince George to February 17, 1754, when Virginia's forces built a post at the Forks of the Ohio, a site the French soon seized and rebuilt as Fort Duquesne. Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, best known for his historical paintings, made this color offset print for the Pennsylvania Railroad, which by then carried passengers and freight into the city. The date comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1931. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | K14525 U.S. Copyright Office Color offset by Newell Convers Wyeth. Copyright not renewed 1959. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,373 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173027 |
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