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A Group of skyscrapers, Pittsburgh, Pa. – Vintage Print

A Group of skyscrapers, Pittsburgh, Pa., c[between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
A Group of skyscrapers, Pittsburgh, Pa., c[between 1900 and 1910]. 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 A Group of skyscrapers, Pittsburgh, Pa. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A Group of skyscrapers, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Few views from this period pair a cluster of tall office buildings with the waterfront quite like this one, which the record places between about 1900 and 1910. Pittsburgh sat where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio, and its downtown grew fast on the wealth of steel, coal, and rail. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass plate negative, sold views of American cities to a broad public, so the picture also records how a booming industrial city wanted to be seen.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 070748. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsSkyscrapers. Waterfronts.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72311

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