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Looking up Fifth Avenue at eleven o'clock in the morning - Before Pittsburgh had smoke control – Historic Print

Looking up Fifth Avenue at eleven o'clock in the morning - Before Pittsburgh had smoke control, 1945 Nov. 5. — historic photograph
Looking up Fifth Avenue at eleven o'clock in the morning - Before Pittsburgh had smoke control, 1945 Nov. 5.. 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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Looking up Fifth Avenue at eleven o'clock in the morning - Before Pittsburgh had smoke control comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Captured at eleven in the morning on November 5, 1945, this view looks up Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, with the title noting that it predates the city's smoke control. Pittsburgh's steel mills, rail yards and coal-burning homes had long blanketed the downtown streets in soot, and the city only began enforcing strict smoke rules in the years after the war, a shift that helped spur the later clean-air campaigns. The record's details come from an unverified caption card, so the exact circumstances of the exposure are best read as approximate.

Created / published1945 Nov. 5.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. L-645. Iconography of Pittsburgh Collection - No. 1004. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Air Pollution. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 161.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149770

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