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Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes--Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right – Antique Print

Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes--Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right, New York : Underwood & Underwood, c1903. — stereograph
Pittsburgh, Pa., nursery of vast fortunes--Smithfield St., looking N.E., with P.O. at right, New York : Underwood & Underwood, 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. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Smithfield Street, looking northeast toward a post office on the right, anchors this stereograph of downtown Pittsburgh. Its title calls the city a "nursery of vast fortunes," a nod to the steel, glass, and coal money that made Pittsburgh one of the country's richest industrial centers in the early 1900s. Underwood & Underwood of New York produced such cards by the hundreds for stereoscope viewers, which were popular in parlors and schools. Read as a street scene, the card shows the crowded, busy commercial core of a city then at its industrial peak.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, c1903.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH29991 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1.
SubjectsCity & town life--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,299 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169436

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