Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, north side, Pa. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, north side, Pa., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, north side, Pa.
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Fountains share the frame with the library's north side in this view from about 1905, a detail that sets it apart from the building-only pictures of the period. The library was one of the many public libraries that Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh-born steel magnate, financed across the country to give ordinary readers free access to books. The image is a large glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities and landscapes around 1900, and the negative now sits in the Library of Congress collection.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 2992" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018652. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Libraries. Fountains.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,432 × 5,232 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62155 |
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