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Dec 06, 2011
New Image Collections Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We added two new image collections to Historic Pittsburgh from the
Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center. The
Montefiore Hospital Photographs (161 images) show hospital buildings, physicians, nurses, interns, and student nurses in both formal groups and work settings between 1890-1988. The
William V. Winans, Jr. Photograph Collection (141 images) visually document the construction of the Civic Arena (later known as Mellon Arena) between 1958-1961 by Dick Corporation.
Oct 24, 2011
Northland Public Library Adds Images
Our most recent new partner,
Northland Public Library, added over 600 new images to the
Northland Historical Image Collection. The site now contains 825 photographs from the Allegheny County Department of Public Works covering the municipalities of Bradford Woods Borough, Franklin Park Borough, Marshall Township, McCandless Township and Ross Township. These photos document the construction and upgrades of county roads beginning in 1919 in the North Hills as well as the construction of North Park.
Aug 29, 2011
Historic Pittsburgh Adds 10th New Partner
We welcomed our 10th new partner contributing images to Historic Pittsburgh:
Northland Public Library. The core of the
Northland Historical Image Collection will be made up of more than 800 photographs (currently 210 are online) from the Allegheny County Department of Public Works covering the municipalities of Bradford Woods Borough, Franklin Park Borough, Marshall Township, McCandless Township and Ross Township. These photos cover the construction and upgrades of county roads beginning in 1919 in the North Hills as well as the construction of North Park. Also included are photographs from the North Allegheny History Museum collection, the Franklin Park Borough collection, and private collections from individuals, organizations and businesses in the North Hills area. Welcome!
ASC Adds More City Photographer Images to Online Collection
The Archives Service Center added
591 new images to the
Pittsburgh City Photographer online image collection. These images are part of an effort to digitize delicate glass plate negatives dating from 1901 to approximately 1926.
Jul 13, 2011
Over 1,000 More City Photographer Images Added to Online Collection
The Archives Service Center added
1016 new images to the
Pittsburgh City Photographer online image collection. These images are part of an effort to digitize delicate glass plate negatives dating from 1901 to approximately 1926. This recent addition documents Bigelow Boulevard, the Boulevard of the Allies, Market Square, and various neighborhoods, playgrounds, and parks dating from 1906-1923. A dozen of these new images include negatives that were recently returned after significant conservation work by Chicago Albumen Works. These images document local businesses, the historical D.P. Reighard House, and the 5th Battalion Mushball Team.
Jun 15, 2011
New Partners Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We welcome two new partners to Historic Pittsburgh:
Monroeville Historical Society and
Pitcairn Historical Society. They each contributed hundreds of images which depict their respective communities for over 100 years. Welcome!
New Image Collections Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We added two new image collections to Historic Pittsburgh from the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center. The
Fuchs Family Papers & Photographs (25 images) primarily depict cadets from St. Joseph's Junior Military School as well as members of the Fuchs family. The
Richard E. Rauh Photographs (56 images) primarily depict Bertha Rauh, her family, and her swearing in as Director of Charities, later called the Pittsburgh Department of Public Welfare; others illustrate her efforts to transform Mayview Hospital into a modern psychiatric hospital.
Mar 01, 2011
New Image Collections Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We added two new image collections to Historic Pittsburgh from the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center. The
Dorsey-Turfley Family Photographs (221 images) document several generations of the Dorsey and Turfley families as well as African American sports teams from the beginning decades of the twentieth century. The
Seder Family Photographs (22 images) primarily depict the Frank and Seder clothing store, business associates, and Isaac Seder's family from 1910 through the late 1960s. These additions mark our 49th and 50th image collections.
Feb 17, 2011
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
Nov 09, 2010
Exploring Pittsburgh’s Photographic History: The Retrographer Project
Dane Pieri, a senior at Carnegie Mellon University studying design and human-computer interaction, has created the
Retrographer Project designed to geotag historical images of Pittsburgh. “Geotagging” adds latitude and longitude data to an historical image so that its geographic location can be identified on a map. The ULS Archives Service Center contributed digitized images from its
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection since it primarily documents the built environment throughout the twentieth century. The collection also includes neighborhood designations making it ideally suited for Dane’s purposes. We plan on expanding the current boundaries of this project (Oakland and Shadyside) to also include adjacent neighborhoods. Retrographer is ready for YOU to start contributing your knowledge of Pittsburgh history!
Nov 08, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We added over
3,800 new images from the ULS Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. This large addition of glass plate negatives (1913-1921) includes images of the development of the Lanpher Reservoir; plans for bridges, bridge ornamentation, and road construction projects featuring street layouts and surrounding industries
; the Tuberculosis Hospital; water treatment plants such as the Aspinwall Pumping Station and the Brilliant Pumping Station; the lowering of the "Hump"; and improvements and street widening of downtown Pittsburgh. This represents the last update of images for the next several months.
Oct 28, 2010
Historic Pittsburgh Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2009.
Oct 01, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We added another
539 new images from the ULS Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. Scanned from glass plate negatives by the ULS Digital Research Library, some of these images visually record the monumental efforts required to lower the hump in Downtown which affected Grant Street, Diamond Street, and Oliver, Fifth, Sixth, Webster and Wylie Avenues specifically, as well as other neighboring streets. We now have over 400 images, including photographs and planning diagrams, that document this effort. Other images in our new addition include area streets and the further document Pittsburgh's development of water treatment facilities.
Jul 27, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We added another
375 new images from the ULS Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. Scanned from glass plate negatives by the ULS Digital Research Library, these images feature the construction of the Negley Run Sewer, the Atherton Avenue (Baum Boulevard) Bridge, Ross Pumping Station, as well as various views of Pittsburgh neighborhoods. This release includes images and street plans detailing the lowering of the Hump District in Downtown.
Jul 15, 2010
Welcome Oakmont Carnegie Library as a New Partner!
We welcome
Oakmont Carnegie Library as our 7th local institution to contribute images to Historic Pittsburgh. They contributed an initial
677 images to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections site with more on the way. The core of the Oakmont Historical Image Collection is made up of more than 1,000 photographs, postcards, and other images owned by the Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives. However, in the interest of providing the most complete photographic record of Oakmont and the surrounding area, some photographs included in this project have been provided by various local businesses and organizations as well as private collectors. Welcome!
Jun 23, 2010
New Image Collection Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We added our 47th image collection to Historic Pittsburgh:
Paul Slantis Photograph Collection. The collection, held by the Archives Service Center, contains 523 images taken by
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photographer Paul Slantis between 1946 and 1956. All the images originate from 4 x 5 inch safety negatives and depict a variety of Pittsburgh and regional scenes, including industry, streets, portraits, aerial shots, notable personalities, people and activities, and architecture. Many of the images were published in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette during this timeframe.
Jun 22, 2010
Two More Image Collections Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We added two more image collections to Historic Pittsburgh, this time from the Library & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center.
Otto’s Suburban Dairy collection is comprised of 86 images, dating from 1928-1968, that depict images of buildings, employees, machinery, products, and vehicles. Many of the photographs document machines and vehicles that the company was replacing with new models and technology. The
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania. collection contains 100 team photographs (1911-1989) from the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association, Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center, and various organized clubs. The team photographs are primarily basketball teams, but also include baseball, track, swimming, tennis, softball, and fencing.
Jun 21, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We added another
390 new images from the Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. Scanned from glass plate negatives, these images from 1912 primarily document the lowering of the hump near Ross and Grant Streets and Fifth Avenue.
Jun 03, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We released another
509 digitized images from the Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. Scanned from glass plate negatives, these images document significant changes in roads, infrastructure, and neighborhoods in Pittsburgh from 1911-1912. The images feature prominent projects such as the lowering of the hump in Downtown as well as the continued efforts to provide the city with modern water treatment, bridges, and roads. Photographic copies of plans and drawings are also included.
Apr 26, 2010
More City Photographer Images Mounted Online
We released another
463 digitized images from the Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection. These glass plate negatives depict many Pittsburgh neighborhoods and streets in 1911. There are now more than 5800 images from this photo collection online.
Apr 08, 2010
Videos Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We created a new component of
Historic Pittsburgh to offer video content from partner institutions. To get started, the
Historic Pittsburgh Video Collection presently contains 12 short film clips by Bill Beal, a Pittsburgh filmmaker active from the 1940s through the 1990s. The films belong to the
Library & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, who received an LSTA grant to support the reformatting of the films. We hope to mount more videos in the future from local collections.
Mar 17, 2010
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection Updated
We added over one thousand images to our online collection of
Pittsburgh City Photographer images. Most of these were scanned from the original
glass plate negatives; others from the deteriorating
acetate negatives. These latter images present a significant preservation challenge due to a process known as Cellulose-Acetate Film Deterioration or “
Vinegar Syndrome” that affects the CP negatives created between 1931-1939. The Archives Service Center at Pitt selected 333 negatives which were conserved by the
Chicago Albumen Works with support from the University Library System.
Mar 03, 2010
Downloading Historic Pittsburgh Maps
We have made it convenient to freely download maps from the Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection as 200 dpi JPG images for noncommercial and educational purposes. Follow the Download Map link within each individual plate description to download a zip file containing the map image.
Jan 22, 2010
Remaining Hopkins Maps Added to Historic Pittsburgh
We have now completed scanning all of the known G.M. Hopkins Company maps published for Pittsburgh between 1872 and 1940. We added the remaining twelve real estate plat maps to the
Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection. They include
Volume 1 and
Volume 2 from 1889 (City of Pittsburgh),
1895 (eastern vicinity),
1896 (southern vicinity),
1897 (northern vicinity),
Volume 3 from 1900 (City of Pittsburgh),
Volume 4 from 1901 (City of Pittsburgh),
Volume 1 from 1907 (Allegheny City),
Volume 3 and
Volume 4 from 1911 (City of Pittsburgh),
Volume 8 from 1915 (eastern vicinity), and
Volume 11 from 1940 (northwest vicinity). All 46 volumes (1,820 plates) can be browsed
here.
Dec 10, 2009
Two New Image Collections from the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center
Today we added two new collections from the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections:
The Hebrew Institute Photographs collection contains 27 photographs spanning 1915-1984 that document school classes, the laying of the cornerstone, and the Hebrew Institute's first school bus.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company Photographs collection contains 248 photographs, spanning 1903-1924, depicting railroad construction projects, bridges, and stations.
Nov 16, 2009
More Hopkins Maps Added to Historic Pittsburgh
As part of an ongoing effort to identify and digitize all the
Hopkins maps produced for Pittsburgh between 1872 and 1940, we added eight more real estate plat maps of Pittsburgh created by the G.M. Hopkins Company to the
Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection. They include an
1882 atlas;
Volume 3,
Volume 4 and
Volume 5 [1890];
Volume 1 [1898];
Volume 2 [1899]; a
1910 atlas; and
Volume 2 [1914]. Twelve more volumes will be coming soon in the following months.
Oct 29, 2009
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection Updated
We are pleased to announce the largest update to the Archives Service Center's online
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection with the addition of nearly
2,000 digitized images. The new images are part of an initiative to reformat all the glass plate negatives in the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection (
AIS.1971.05) to facilitate preservation and access. The images found in the newest addition, which represent the earliest ones in the collection (1901-1908), document improvements to city infrastructure, such as the construction of the Aspinwall and Ross Pumping Stations, the development and condition of roads in many neighborhoods (e.g., Shadyside, Point Breeze, and Morningside, among others), and residents and construction workers in these neighborhoods.
Oct 12, 2009
Ancestors: House-by-House Search Retraces an Ancestor
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Patricia Lowry wrote about her use of the Historic Pittsburgh website in tracing Joanne Baker's great-grandfather, Timothy D. Casey. She cites several publications from the website, including city directories.
Read article.
Aug 14, 2009
Improvements Using the Hopkins Maps
To improve your experience navigating the
G.M. Hopkins Company Maps, we now offer viewing of the maps through the Zoomify interface. This enables a big improvement when zooming and moving around in a map. We also now offer two methods for
browsing the Hopkins maps. In addition to browsing the maps using the Index page, we offer thumbnail browsing of entire volumes. Also note that you can now freely download map plate images as 200 dpi JPEG files for noncommercial and educational purposes.
HSWP Catalog Now Hosted by Heinz History Center
The
Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center now serves its own online catalog to users of their library collection. The HSWP Catalog, as it has been known on Historic Pittsburgh, was hosted for many years by the ULS Digital Research Library; it is now hosted independently by the Heinz History Center. Please visit their
new online catalog to search for books, archival collections, periodicals, and more from their collection.
Aug 03, 2009
Separate Search for Historic City Directories
To improve the usefulness of our full-text search, we have separated the full-text City Directories into
a new collection that may be searched alone, or in combination with the Historic Pittsburgh General Text Collection. The Historic Pittsburgh City Directories collection contains 125 directories published between 1815 and 1945. The majority of the directories were published by J.F. Diffenbacher and R.L. Polk & Company. While most of the directories cover Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, a portion includes Homestead and nearby boroughs.
To search the directories alone, simply visit the collection's home page; to search directories in combination with all Historic Pittsburgh full-text content, visit the Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text page.
Jul 29, 2009
New Image Collection Released
Today we added a new image collection from the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections: Ken Kobus Photograph Collection. The online collection features 246 images documenting the railroad and steel industries in Pennsylvania taken primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s. CONRAIL and the LTV Steel Company are the main focus of the collection while secondary points of interest include the Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Amtrak, and Union Switch and Signal.
Jun 19, 2009
Historic Pittsburgh Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2008.
Jun 11, 2009
Chatham University Archives Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Apr 13, 2009
Chatham Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Mar 24, 2009
Welcome Point Park University Archives as a New Partner!
We welcome
Point Park University Archives as our sixth local institution to contribute images to Historic Pittsburgh. They contributed an initial
98 images to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections site. The online collection represents the dynamic life of Point Park University and the surrounding area.
Jan 23, 2009
New Archival Finding Aids from the Archives Service Center
The Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh has added 49 new archival finding aids (and updated 30 others) to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection.
Jan 07, 2009
Latest Additions Push Full-Text Collection Over 1,000 Items
In 2008, we nearly doubled the number of books in our Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection. There are currently
1,039 volumes available online, totalling 272,996 pages, all of them
full-text searchable. Use
this link to see only items added in 2008.
Dec 15, 2008
New Archival Finding Aids from the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
The Library and Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania has added 30 new archival finding aids to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection.
Nov 05, 2008
Two New Image Collections Released
Today two new image collections from the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to Historic Pittsburgh:
The Bruce Drisbach images depict the construction of the American Steel & Wire Company building, equipment, and worker housing construction in Donora.
The Progress Photographs show the construction of the William Penn Hotel in chronological order, including the groundbreaking ceremony held on July 7, 1914. The photographs in this album were taken every two weeks to show construction progress.
Oct 06, 2008
Historic Pittsburgh Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2007.
Historic Pittsburgh Maps in the Darlington Digital Library
Of the hundreds of maps now available in this collection, over 70 of them were created in the mid-18th through early-20th centuries and depict
Pittsburgh or Allegheny County, including maps of Fort Pitt, plans of Pittsburgh, maps of Pittsburgh and Allegheny cities, Bird's-eye maps of Carnegie, Duquesne, Glassport, Homestead, and other western Pennsylvania cities.
Sep 03, 2008
Chatham Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Jul 07, 2008
Chatham Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Jun 02, 2008
Chatham Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Apr 30, 2008
Chatham Image Collection Updated
Chatham College has added
new images to the Historic Pittsburgh image collection.
Apr 28, 2008
New Books Added
We are adding books to the Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection on a weekly basis. To see a list of new books, please visit this
link.
Apr 14, 2008
Historic Pittsburgh Celebrates Pittsburgh's 250th Anniversary
In recognition of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary, we are adding hundreds of newly digitized titles to the full-text collection throughout the year. Today, we added
157 new titles. The 250th anniversary marks the naming of the city by General John Forbes. In 1758, shortly after taking possession of the abandoned remnants of French Fort Duquesne at the Point, Forbes named the city in honor of the English Prime Minister Sir William Pitt.
Dec 03, 2007
Three New Image Collections Added and Updates
We added three new Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections and updated a fourth. Images are now available from the Archives Service Center's
Pittsburgh Print Collection and
Rust Engineering Company Records as well as from the Heinz History Center's
Charles M. Stotz Collection. We also added
181 images to the
Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.
Nov 30, 2007
Historic Pittsburgh Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2006.
Sep 27, 2007
"Zoomify" View Added To Maps
Two of our map collections now use the
"Zoomify" tool for map viewing. Zoomify allows for dynamic zooming and panning within a high-resoultion map image, without the need to reload the entire page each time. A navaigation thumbnail shows which section of the map is currently on display. Give it a try, and
let us know what you think.
The two map collections using Zoomify are the
City of Pittsburgh Geodetic and Topographic Survey and
Maps from the Report of the Flood Commission of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 1912.
Sep 19, 2007
New Finding Aids Added
We added 16 new archival finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh's
Archives Service Center to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection.
Aug 02, 2007
New Partner and Image Collection Added
We welcome
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation as a new institutional partner contributing images to our
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections site. Today we released a collection of images from
The Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive. This online collection contains slides taken by Mr. Fairbanks between 1948 to 1987 that document train engines and stations in the western Pennsylvania area. He spent his entire adult life riding, documenting, and collecting material from rail lines all over the world.
Jul 11, 2007
Upgraded Format for Historic Pittsburgh News
We've upgraded the Historic Pittsburgh News page to use a blogging software tool (we're using
blosxom). As a result, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed of our news items. If you're not familiar with RSS feeds or how to read them, these Wikipedia articles on
RSS and
aggregators (feed readers) will get you started.
Also, please note that the URL to the news page has changed to
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/news/historic_pittsburgh/.
Please update your bookmarks and links accordingly.
Jun 18, 2007
New Additions to Full-Text Collection
Jan 05, 2007
Two New Map Collections Released
We added two new map collections to Historic Pittsburgh. The
City of Pittsburgh Geodetic and Topographic Survey Maps (1923-1961) contain 171 plates that depict contours and spot heights of much of Allegheny County. The
Flood Commission of Pittsburgh maps (1912) contain 14 plates produced as part of the Report of the Flood Commission. They depict the results of the surveys, investigations and studies made by the commission for the purpose of determining the causes of, damage by, and methods of relief from floods in the Allegheny, Monogahela and Ohio rivers at Pittsburgh.
Jan 03, 2007
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections Update
We added
83 new images to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections from the following collections: Darlington Family Photographs, Kingsley Association, Pittsburgh City Photographer, and University Archives.
Dec 01, 2006
Bungee View and Image Collection Updates
In conjunction with CMU research scientist Mark Derthick, we now offer an experimental visualization prototype called
Bungee View for viewing selected Historic Pittsburgh image collections.
We also added 133 new images to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections from the following collections: Chatham College Archives, Darlington Family Photographs, Kingsley Association, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Edward J. Shourek, and University Archives.
Nov 01, 2006
Two New Image Collections Released, and Updates
We released two new
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections from the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh:
CONSOL Energy Mining Archives and the
Edward J. Shourek Collection. We also added
97 new images from the Pittsburgh City Photographer collection and Chatham College Archives.
Oct 12, 2006
Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2005.
Oct 04, 2006
New Finding Aids Added
We added 62 new archival finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh's
Archives Service Center to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection.
Oct 02, 2006
Image Collections Updated
We added a total of
147 new images from the Chatham College Archives collection as well as the Pittsburgh City Photographer and
UE News collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Sep 01, 2006
New Partner and Image Collection
We welcome
Chatham College Archives as a new institutional partner contributing images to our
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections site. Today we released a small collection of images that begins to chronicle the students, faculty, and college community as academic pursuits, college events, student life and social activities have grown and changed throughout the college's history. More images will be added to the site in the coming months.
Aug 01, 2006
New Image Collection and Updates
A new Historic Pittsburgh Image Collection was added documenting the city of Pittsburgh in the 1940’s and 1950’s before and after smoke control ordinances were passed regulating the burning of coal:
Smoke Control Lantern Slides. We also added
205 new images to the Pittsburgh City Photographer and University Archives collections maintained by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jul 01, 2006
Image Collections Updated
200 new images from the following collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections: Pittsburgh City Photographer, Irene Kaufmann, and University Archives.
Jun 01, 2006
Image Collections Updated
160 new images from the following collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections: University Archives and Kingsley Association.
May 05, 2006
New Finding Aids Added, Plus Updates
19 new archival finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh's
Archives Service Center were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection. In addition, 17 finding aids that were already online were updated.
May 01, 2006
New Image Collection, Plus Updates
A new Historic Pittsburgh Image Collection was added documenting the
Union Switch & Signal strike in June 1914. We also added
twenty-nine new images to the Father Cox and Pittsburgh City Photographer collections maintained by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Apr 01, 2006
Image Collections Updated
122 new images from the Pittsburgh City Photographer collection held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Mar 14, 2006
Historic Pittsburgh Poster Session
DRL Coordinator Ed Galloway presented a poster session on Historic Pittsburgh at
The Library in Bits and Bytes: Digital Library Symposium held at the University of Maryland on 29 September 2005. The
conference proceedings are now available.
Mar 01, 2006
Image Collections Updated
190 new images from the following collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, University Archives, and Pittsburgh City Photographer.
Dec 20, 2005
Image Collections Updated
53 new images from Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company collection held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Dec 01, 2005
Image Collections Updated
239 new images from several collections maintained by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Nov 16, 2005
Image Collections Featured in D-Lib Magazine
The
November issue of
D-Lib Magazine features the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Nov 01, 2005
New Collections Added to Image Collections
Two new collections were added to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections:
Photographs of the Darlington Family and
Union Arcade Building Photographs. We also added
51 new images to the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection and the Spencer Family Collection.
Oct 04, 2005
New Browse Feature in Full-Text Collection
The
Full-Text Collection includes new methods to
browse the books by author, genre type, category, date published, and more!
Oct 01, 2005
Image Collections Updated
Eighty-nine new images from the
UE News Photograph collection were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Sep 16, 2005
Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2004.
Aug 01, 2005
Image Collections Updated
Jul 26, 2005
Chronology Updated
The Historic Pittsburgh
Chronology was updated to include events from 2004.
Jun 28, 2005
New Finding Aids Added
Forty new archival finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh's
Archives Service Center were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection. In addition, 24 finding aids that were already online were updated.
Jun 27, 2005
New Feature for Teachers
A new feature of Historic Pittsburgh gives teachers of American history
Suggested Classroom Applications for incorporating the site in their lesson plans.
May 02, 2005
New Image Collection and Updates
Pittsburgh Railways Company was added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections. Plus 236 new images were added to existing collections.
Apr 01, 2005
Image Collections Updated
Feb 21, 2005
Image Collections Updated
Dec 21, 2004
Historic Pittsburgh Images Featured in Post-Gazette
Nov 08, 2004
Image Collections Updated
Oct 05, 2004
New Finding Aids Added
Sixty-six new finding aids were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aid Collection from the Archives Service Center.
Sep 16, 2004
Image Collections Featured in University Times
Sep 13, 2004
Image Collections Released
The
Image Collections component of Historic Pittsburgh was officially released. [read the
press release]
Sep 12, 2004
Historic Pittsburgh in the News
Aug 18, 2004
New Explore Feature for Image Collections
An
Explore Pittsburgh by Location feature has been added to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Jul 28, 2004
FAQ Created
A
Frequently Asked Questions page has been created. Please check this page to see if your question can be answered before
contacting us.
Jun 22, 2004
Explore Personalities Added to Image Collections
An
Explore Personalities in Pittsburgh feature has been added to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Jun 14, 2004
HSWP Catalog Updated
The
online catalog of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania has been updated to include over 29,000 records.
May 11, 2004
Explore the Image Collections
An
Explore feature has been added to the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections.
Apr 01, 2004
Home Page Re-design
The Historic Pittsburgh home page has been updated with a new look.
Feb 25, 2004
Image Collections Beta Release
The website now comprises a new component:
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections. This beta release provides access to several thousand visual images of the Pittsburgh region.
Dec 18, 2003
New Finding Aids Added
166 new or revised finding aids were added to the
Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids Collection. The finding aids came from both the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center and the Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Dec 05, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Dec 04, 2003
Chronology Updated
In collaboration with the Heinz History Center, the Chronology has been updated to include
events from 2002.
Oct 30, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Oct 14, 2003
Full-Text Collection Updated
43 new books were added to the
Full-Text Collection, bringing the total number of texts in the collection to 521.
Sep 10, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Sep 08, 2003
Full-Text Collection Interface Update
The Full-Text Collection now features a new and improved interface for searching, viewing and manipulating items in the collection. Some of the new features include searching within a single text; tracking your search history, converting page images into PDFs for improved printing; and placing selected texts in a session-based "bookbag."
Aug 01, 2003
New Finding Aids Added
61 finding aids from the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania have been added to the
Finding Aids Collection.
Jun 26, 2003
New Finding Aids Added
30 finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center have been added to the
Finding Aids Collection.
Jun 25, 2003
HSWP Catalog Updated
The online catalog of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania has been updated to include over 27,000 records.
Jun 20, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Jun 02, 2003
Finding Aids COllection Interface Updated
The Finding Aids Collection has been updated with new functionality and a new look. Searching and display of the collection is now handled by the latest version of
DLXS finding aids class middleware.
Apr 24, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Apr 07, 2003
New Finding Aids Added
39 finding aids from the Historic Society of Western Pennsylvania have been added to the
Finding Aids Collection.
Feb 13, 2003
Full-Text Collection Updated
42 new books have been added to the Full-Text collection.
Jan 23, 2003
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Dec 02, 2002
New Map Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Oct 10, 2002
HSWP Catalog Updated
The online catalog of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania has been updated to include a total of 23,800 records.
Oct 01, 2002
New Volumes Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Three volumes of Hopkins Plat Maps have been added to the Maps Collection:
Sep 30, 2002
Chronology Updated
In collaboration with the Heinz History Center, the Chronology has been updated to include
events from 2001.
Aug 26, 2002
Warrantee Atlas Released
The Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1914 is now available in the Historic Pittsburgh Maps Collection.
Aug 20, 2002
New Finding Aids Added
42 finding aids from the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center have been added to the Historic Pittsburgh
finding aids collection.
Aug 14, 2002
Full-Text Collection Updated
39 books have been added to the Historic Pittsburgh full-text collection.
Jun 28, 2002
Full-Text Collection Updated
64 books have been added to the Historic Pittsburgh full-text collection.
Jun 03, 2002
Reproductions of Hopkins Maps Available
The University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with Chapman Corporation, is pleased to announce that reproductions of the G. M. Hopkins plat maps are now
available for sale.
Mar 07, 2002
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Feb 18, 2002
Images Added to Chronology
Images illustrating specific events have been added to the
Chronology. Images are courtesy of the Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Dec 18, 2001
New Volume Added to Hopkins Map Collection
Dec 13, 2001
Chronology Released
Historic Pittsburgh announces a new component to the website: an online
chronology. The chronology, consisting of over 3,100 entries from 1717 to 2000, is drawn from the fifth edition of
Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City by Stefan Lorant, renowned photojournalism pioneer and author. The chronology can be browsed by decade and year, or searched by keyword and date.
Nov 27, 2001
New Full-Text Additions
Forty-one books have been added to the Historic Pittsburgh full-text collection.
Nov 07, 2001
New Interface for Site
Historic Pittsburgh announces a new interface for the entire site. Navigation bars allow easier access to all parts of the site.
In addition, the Maps Collection has added a
new search feature allowing you to search by street or building name. The Map View pages also have added features including a Navigational View and lists of buildings and landmarks found on each map.
Oct 09, 2001
Reproductions of Historic Pittsburgh Texts Available
Brookhaven Press, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, has announced that digital reproductions of the books in the University’s Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection are now
available for sale.
Sep 14, 2001
New Volume Added to Hopkins Maps Collection
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