5th Ave. west from Smithfield, Pittsburgh, Pa. – Antique 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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A window into the past: 5th Ave. west from Smithfield, Pittsburgh, Pa., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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5th Ave. west from Smithfield, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, seen looking west from Smithfield Street, is the subject of this stereograph, a paired image meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Dating to about 1903, the card was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that produced and sold large numbers of stereo views of American streets, landmarks and scenic places in the early twentieth century. Downtown Pittsburgh at that time was a dense center of steel, rail and commerce, so the street scene offers a glimpse of its busy urban core. The catalog notes that the date and caption come from an older card and are not fully verified.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,213 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106008 |
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