McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt, Pennsylvania, 1920 – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt, Pennsylvania, 1920. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt
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McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt, Pennsylvania, 1920
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McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1920 was a steel and tube town at the confluence of the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers, about 15 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The National Tube Company, a U.S. Steel subsidiary, had made pipe there since the 1890s, and the mills drew large numbers of immigrant workers from Eastern and Southern Europe, giving the town a crowded, many-languaged working-class character. Snake Hollow, the valley named in the title, sat among the hillside neighborhoods where mill families lived close to the furnaces and smokestacks. The area's natural gas boom, which had lit factories and homes across the region since the 1880s, was already fading by 1920, though the name "Gas Belt" still described the district. This panorama shows a community whose fortunes rose and fell with the mills.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hagerty & griffey |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 941 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt |
| Reference | PA McKeesport, Snake Hollow, Gas Belt 1920 |
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