Pittsburgh people / Reynold H. Weidenaar. – Antique Print
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(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 people / Reynold H. Weidenaar., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pittsburgh people / Reynold H. Weidenaar.
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Signed in pencil by the artist to the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, with a note calling her "his No. 1 fan" and dated May 5, 1943, this etching is one of an edition of 100 and carries a personal inscription that most prints of the period lack. Its catalog subject is cliff dwellings in Pittsburgh, a reminder that the city's steep hillsides held houses perched above rail lines and river flats. Made in the early 1940s, when Pittsburgh's steel mills were running at full wartime pace, the work shows a city whose dense, vertical neighborhoods were shaped as much by terrain as by industry.
| Created / published | [1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching ; 31.3 x 15.8 cm. |
| Genre | Etchings 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil with note: To Frances Johnston from her No. 1 fan; May 5, 1943. Edition of 100. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 496 Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Cliff dwellings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,165 × 1,463 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218754 |
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