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Steelworker's son, Pittsburgh, 1935 – Historic Print

Steelworker's son, Pittsburgh, 1935, 1935 — historic photograph
Steelworker's son, Pittsburgh, 1935, 1935. Historic photograph from the Pittsburgh collection.

(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 Steelworker's son, Pittsburgh, 1935 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Steelworker's son, Pittsburgh, 1935

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This 1935 Pittsburgh view is built around a steelworker's son, a young African American child whose father worked in the city's mills. Those mills shaped daily life along the rivers, and by the mid-1930s the Depression had hit the steel district hard. Many Black families there had arrived during the Great Migration, drawn by mill work that was often the hardest and lowest paid. Gelatin silver prints like this one were the standard medium for documentary photography of the period, so the picture keeps a personal, domestic side of an industrial city that is usually seen only through smokestacks.

Created / published1935
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1930-1940.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1930-1940. Iron & steel workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,265 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-198489

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