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Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. – Vintage Wall Art

Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., c1908. — historic photograph
Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., c1908.. 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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A window into the past: Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh is the subject of this view, made around 1908 on an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative. Pittsburgh was then one of the country's great steel and rail centers, and its downtown streets carried heavy traffic of streetcars, delivery wagons and pedestrians alongside commercial blocks. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American cities and landscapes for issue as postcards and books, and the plate reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 495" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070742. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreets.United States--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72305

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