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Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes, Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right – Vintage Wall Art

Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes, Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1903. — stereograph
Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes, Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1903.. Stereograph 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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A window into the past: Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes, Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right, preserved in this stereograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Smithfield Street, photographed looking northeast with the post office at right, shows one of the main downtown thoroughfares of Pittsburgh in the early 1900s. The card's title, "nursery of vast fortunes," reflects the city's reputation at the time, when steel, coal, glass and banking had made it one of the wealthiest industrial centers in the country. Underwood & Underwood issued the view as a stereograph, meant to be seen in three dimensions through a hand stereoscope, a popular home entertainment of the period. The street's crowded blocks and commercial buildings capture the look of a busy American city before the automobile reshaped its traffic.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1903.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.
NotesNo. 2.
SubjectsStreets--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 742 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167273

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