The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections site provides access to over 31,000 visual images from 62 collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chatham University Archives, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Monroeville Historical Society, Northland Public Library, Oakmont Carnegie Library, Pitcairn Historical Society, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Point Park University, Rodef Shalom Congregation, and the Historical Society of Upper St. Clair. To learn more about the original grant project (2001-2004), please review About the Image Collections.

The wide range of photographs offer a compelling and comprehensive look at how Pittsburghers lived and worked in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Selected from dozens of photographic collections, the images visually record the cultural, educational, and social development of the greater Pittsburgh region, as well as its urban structures, regional landscapes, and multifarious transportation methods. The images portray Pittsburgh's diverse workforce, industries, public schools, ethnic communities, and civic renaissance of the mid-1940s up until the early 2000s.

News: The Archives Service Center (ASC) recently acquired a large collection of 35mm negatives from photographer Charles R. Martin, which included 189 images taken of a peaceful march that occurred in Pittsburgh on Sunday, April 7, 1968. This day was declared by President Lyndon Johnson as a National Day of Mourning to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated in Memphis three days earlier. These images depict people from all walks of life, men and women, black and white, young and old dressed in their Sunday best confronting policemen as they make their way from the Hill District to Downtown, Pittsburgh.