Allegheny Court House, Pittsburgh, Pa. – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Allegheny Court House, Pittsburgh, Pa. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Allegheny Court House, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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This stereograph shows the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, photographed around 1882. Stereo views like this one were printed as two slightly offset images that produced a three-dimensional effect in a stereoscope, a popular parlor entertainment in the late nineteenth century. The copyright credit to S.V. Albee points to the commercial view trade, which sold such cards to a wide public. The building shown appears to predate the larger Romanesque courthouse designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, whose construction began in 1884, so the card captures a civic landmark on the eve of its replacement.
| Created / published | c1882. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by S.V. Albee. Unmounted stereograph. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 136 (B2). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Courthouses; Photog. I.; Pa; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,427 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147350 |
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