Pittsburg, form the Northwest. View from hill behind Sligo – Historic 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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Pittsburg, form the Northwest. View from hill behind Sligo comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pittsburg, form the Northwest. View from hill behind Sligo
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From the hill behind Sligo, this view looks down over the city and its rivers from an elevated vantage point. It is a photograph of an earlier wood engraving by Butler Stripe, catalogued as number 229 in the *Iconography of Pittsburg*, a series of printed city views. The catalog date of about 1857 places the original during the years when Pittsburgh was expanding rapidly as a center of iron, glass, and river commerce. Printed city views of this kind were often used to show a booming town to readers elsewhere, so the engraving served as civic promotion as much as a record of the landscape. The date and other details come from an old caption card and have not been verified.
| Created / published | c1857. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo of wood engraving by Butler Stripe. Iconography of Pittsburg - #229. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Waterfronts; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142743 |
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