Pittsburg - view from Coal Hill. A view of the busy triangle, 1875 – Vintage Photo Print
![Pittsburg - view from Coal Hill. A view of the busy triangle, 1875, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c0df6f8be5f6-L.webp)
(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 antique engraving of Pittsburg - view from Coal Hill. A view of the busy triangle, 1875. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pittsburg - view from Coal Hill. A view of the busy triangle, 1875
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From Coal Hill, this view looks down on the busy triangle where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio. The wood engraving was made from a drawing by Fred B. Schell and printed as an illustration in William B. Sipes's book on the Pennsylvania Railroad, which explains its attention to the rail lines and river traffic crowding the waterfront. Pittsburgh was growing fast as a center of iron, steel and coal in the 1870s, so the packed riverfront shows the city's industrial trade during that expansion.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving of drawing by Fred B. Schell. Illus. in: William B. Sipes, The Pennsylvania Railroad, p. 164. No. L-224. Reference copy may be in Iconography of Pittsburgh Coll, no. 339. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Waterfronts; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142767 |
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