Pa. - Pittsburgh - panoramic view; rail yards and coal barges in foreground. July 2, 1915 – Antique Photo Print
(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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Pa. - Pittsburgh - panoramic view; rail yards and coal barges in foreground. July 2, 1915 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pa. - Pittsburgh - panoramic view; rail yards and coal barges in foreground. July 2, 1915
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Few views of early twentieth-century Pittsburgh put the working river and the railroad this squarely in front of the skyline. Here the rail yards and coal barges fill the foreground, so the eye reads the city as a place of freight and fuel before it reaches the buildings beyond. In 1915 Pittsburgh was among the country's leading steel and coal centers, with the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers carrying much of that traffic. The panorama, dated July 2, 1915, captures that industrial economy at a moment when rail and river still moved most of the region's heavy goods.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1915. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,205 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123118 |
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