... within two years. In 1915, while motoring from Pittsburgh headed for Washington, his car caught fire near Greensburg, Pa. and ... the Lincoln highway and other routes from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and return more than 100 times.
Wikipedia Penrose's ...
... odour to it.
Batter up! What a terrific photo of a Pittsburgh steel mill. Even in the early 1980s mill neighborhoods looked like ... train with my uncle to his night job in the railyards in Pittsburgh. We would pass through Braddock. It was a great adventure for an 8 ...
... 10 years, but I doubt it's changed much.
The city of Pittsburgh, on the other hand, isn't the pollution-filled abandoned hole it was ... home I grew up in Aliquippa. When I saw you posting the Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls photos I wondered if you would get to the ones Jack ...
July 1938. "Slums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the ... From the looks of this, it was probably taken somewhere in Pittsburgh Hill district.
Handy gadget I like the multi-arm clothes ... seem to be missing a few treads.
Useta live… in Pittsburgh. Funny thing is that although there's a Hill District alright, in ...
November 1942. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Mine car operating off a trolley cable." Medium-format ... up the word "Collier" I was amazed. I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh, in a state ripe with coal mining history and continued industry. ...
... the three portraits are (top-bottom) Owen Wilson, Pittsburgh Pirates; John J. McGraw, NY Giants; and Arthur Devlin, NY Giants.
... Robert Ewing, Philadelphia Phillies; George Gibson, Pittsburgh Pirates; Frank L. Chance, Chicago Cubs; and Tony Smith, Brooklyn ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1910. "A coal fleet." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... On the right, hiding behind the bridge, is the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad building, which is now ironically for our purposes, the home of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation! (And an amazing, stunning ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1905. "Wabash Station." 8x10 inch dry plate ... Station, the Nixon Theater and the Keenan Building were Pittsburgh's three Beaux Arts jewels of the early 20th century.
A massive ... wasted opportunity of the Great Fire of 1845: A third of Pittsburgh was in ashes, but without a central plan, the chaotic rebuilding ...
... raw materials for making wooden legs at what might be the Pittsburgh workshops of J.E. Hanger Artificial Limb Co. National Photo Company ... had branches in Atlanta, London, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
Mr. Hanger turned his personal tragedy into an ...
November 1942. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner at end of the day's work." Medium-format ... fulfilled folks.
(The Gallery, John Collier, Mining, Pittsburgh) ...
... with his wife, who was one of the first women drivers in Pittsburgh. Her touring car ran on gas. John Stubbe ended up leaving the ... selling and maintaining gasoline vehicles on Baum Blvd in Pittsburgh.
[The main appeal electric cars had for women was no ...
July 1909. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Diamond Bank and Wabash Terminal." 8x10 inch dry ... me of the old song, "There's a pawn shop, on a corner, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."
Blue Tag Tobies Blue Tag Tobies are cheap ... as a Jimmy John's and a Wendy's.
(The Gallery, DPC, Pittsburgh, Railroads, Streetcars) ...
... the passage of taller boats to further upstream ports like Pittsburgh under some river conditions. Hinged stacks could address the issue, ... would somehow limit the growth and economic viability of Pittsburgh, so the state championed the case against the bridge that was 50 ...
John Wilson Webb, in Pittsburgh, weighs 120 lbs at 34 months. April 17, 1909. From the George ... carry heavier loads than us.
(Curiosities, G.G. Bain, Pittsburgh) ...
January 1941. "Street in the mill district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for ... this picture Charles Dickens recorded his impression of Pittsburgh in his "American Notes" as "Hell with the lid off".
In an ...
Pittsburgh circa 1905. "Alvin Theatre." Coming soon: Eva Tanguay, "The Sambo ... and the "Bridal Eve" painted curtain in the theatre. "Pittsburgh in stages: two hundred years of theater" By Lynne Conner
Seats ... is the same view from July of 2016.
(The Gallery, DPC, Pittsburgh) ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1910. "Wood Street from Liberty Avenue." 8x10 ... Wood.
Wagons in the Trolley Tracks The gauge of Pittsburgh's trolley system was (and still is) 5 feet 2½ inches. Trolley ... a reason for abandonment or conversion to buses. All of Pittsburgh's downtown street trackage was abandoned in the mid-1980s when the ...
June 1941. "Railroad. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for ... was taken from the Bloomfield Bridge looking west to Pittsburgh and Penn station. The tall smokestack in the upper center exists today and was the boiler house for Pittsburgh Brewing Company (Iron City Beer). The church on the ridge to the ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1910. "Sixth Street Bridge over Allegheny ... Mr. Rick Seeback does a lot of these TV specials for old Pittsburgh that were once here but now are gone!!
Coraopolis ... day ('60s, '70s, '80s)
(The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Pittsburgh, Railroads, Streetcars) ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "Liberty Avenue at Seventh Avenue, ... was named for Thomas J. Keenan, principal owner of the Pittsburgh Press. Keenan kept the dome as his luxurious penthouse. Rumors that he entertained a whole generation of Pittsburgh women there gave the building a scandalous reputation.
The dome ...