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| Name of Collection |
Images Online |
Date Range |
Brief Description of Contents |
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Aerial Photographs of Pittsburgh |
21 |
1923-1932 |
Views of the city of Pittsburgh, including Downtown, Mount Washington, North Side, Point State Park, Oakland, and Homestead. |
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Allegheny Observatory Photographs |
64 |
1895-1935 |
Observatory instruments, exterior and interior views of the original and second Allegheny Observatory, former directors, and prominent visitors. |
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Bruce Drisbach - American Steel & Wire Company Photograph Collection |
125 |
1915-1917 |
Construction of the American Steel and Wire Company building, equipment, worker housing construction, and the Donora environment. |
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CONSOL Energy Mining Archives Photographs |
91 |
1933-1949 |
Mines and mining operations, including miners at work, mine construction, views of the interiors of shafts, mine cars, barges carrying coal, and railroad cars filled with coal. |
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Darlington Family Photographs |
155 |
1885-1888 |
Photographic albums documenting family, friends, and leisure activities in and around the family home Guyasuta. |
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Edward J. Shourek Photographs |
51 |
1913-1920 |
Family and friends, home in Homewood, Central High School, George Westinghouse High School, Syria Mosque, and locations in Ohio and West Virginia. |
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Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs |
283 |
1912-1941 |
Programs and activities of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement in the Hill District and the Emma Farm Camp. |
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James R. Cox Photographs |
25 |
1930 |
Images of Father Cox, the Great Depression, and Jobless party activities. |
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John Gates Photographs |
58 |
1900-1914 |
Downtown and Highland Park, including landscape, industrial, and family scenes. |
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Ken Kobus Photograph Collection |
246 |
1981-2008 |
Railroad and steel industries in Pennsylvania, including CONRAIL, the LTV Steel Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Amtrak, and Union Switch and Signal companies. |
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Kingsley Association Photographs |
181 |
1900-1956 |
Programs and activities of the association, including views of the Hill District, East Liberty, Lillian Home, and Kingsley House. |
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Paul Slantis Photograph Collection |
523 |
1946-1956 |
Variety of Pittsburgh and regional scenes, including industry, streets, portraits, aerial shots, notable personalities, people and activities, and architecture. |
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company Photographs |
524 |
1886-1971 |
Travels of the railroad through Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio as seen from branch lines, railroad cars, stations, and urban and rural areas through which it passed. |
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Pittsburgh City Photographer |
14,269 |
1890-1979 |
City infrastructure and construction, as well as athletic and mayoral events, hospitals, street scenes, and daily life. |
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Pittsburgh Prints from the Collection of Wesley Pickard |
43 |
1843-1923 |
Variety of Pittsburgh landmarks, including bridges, downtown buildings, commercial and industrial establishments, and civic institutions that show the city before and during the period of industrial development in the nineteenth century. |
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Progress Photographs: William Penn Hotel |
28 |
1914-1916 |
Groundbreaking ceremony, excavation process, and construction of the steel-framed hotel. The photographs in the album were taken every two weeks to show construction progress. |
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Pittsburgh Railways Company Photographs |
111 |
1872-1970 |
Development and operation of railway cars, stations, and inclines owned by the Pittsburgh Railways Company. |
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Rust Engineering Company Photographs |
70 |
1905-1968 |
Views of construction projects, completed facilities, and office personnel, specifically the construction of coke processing facilities and blast furnaces for Central Iron and Coal Company in Holt, Alabama (1917-1918). |
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Smoke Control Lantern Slides |
63 |
1939-1945 |
Documents the city of Pittsburgh in the 1940’s and 1950’s before and after smoke control ordinances were passed regulating the burning of coal. |
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Spencer Family Photographs |
169 |
1889-1911 |
Prominent middle-class family's daily life and activities in Shadyside. |
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UE News Photograph Collection |
209 |
1940-1959 |
Activities, officers, and members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). |
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Union Arcade Building Photographs |
85 |
1915-1916 |
Construction of the Henry Clay Frick financed Union Arcade Building in Downtown. |
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Union Switch & Signal Strike Photographs |
45 |
1914 |
Photographs documenting the June 1914 walkout of over 1,000 workers at the Union Switch & Signal Company plant in Swissvale, Pa. |
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University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs |
581 |
1884-present |
History of the University of Pittsburgh, its buildings, student life, activities, and educators. |
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Urban League of Pittsburgh Photographs |
63 |
1923-1958 |
Programs and activities, including conventions and youth conferences, housing and work conditions of African Americans, and Camp Weldon Johnson. |
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William J. Gaughan Photographs |
560 |
1886-1970 |
Industrial images of Homestead Steel Mill, including equipment, workers, strikes, safety and accident concerns, social activities, World War II production, and women in the workforce. |
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Name of Collection |
Images Online |
Date Range |
Brief Description of Contents |
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Allegheny Conference on Community Development |
1,121 |
1875-1981 |
Demolition and construction of buildings and infrastructure in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. |
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Charles M. Stotz Collection |
116 |
1901-1975 |
Images documenting the buildings featured in Stotz’s 1936 book, The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania. |
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Dorsey-Turfley Family Photographs |
221 |
1890-1987 |
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. |
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F. Theodore Wagner Collection |
128 |
1903-1931 |
Family, friends, neighbors, and everyday life in several Pittsburgh neighborhoods. |
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Frederick T. Gretton Collection |
35 |
1881-1908 |
Scenes of metropolitan Pittsburgh communities and steel mill facilities. |
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Fuchs Family Papers and Photographs |
25 |
1933-1951 |
Images primarily depict cadets from St. Joseph's Junior Military School as well as members of the Fuchs family. |
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H. J. Heinz Company |
236 |
1870-1972 |
Product images, factory floor views, plant interiors, and female workers. |
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Hebrew Institute Photographs |
27 |
1915-1984 |
Classes of students with identifying labels and dates; the laying of the cornerstone; the Hebrew Institute's first school bus. |
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Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photograph Collection |
38 |
1916-1944 |
Images illustrating the activities, programs, and physical environment of the settlement. |
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James Benney III Collection |
59 |
1888-1889 |
Urban and residential street scenes such as homes, churches, and commercial buildings. |
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Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania Photographs |
100 |
1911-1989 |
Primarily basketball teams, but also include baseball, track, swimming, tennis, softball, and fencing from the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association, Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center, and various organized clubs. |
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Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation |
362 |
1853-1954 |
Industrial facilities, products, transportation, mills, coal mines, and warehouses. |
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Lyon, Shorb & Company |
72 |
1860-1867 |
Male iron workers in work and formal attire. |
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Mesta Machine Company |
164 |
1906-1920 |
Manufacturing steel mill equipment and machinery, the construction of facilities. |
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Montefiore Hospital Photographs |
161 |
1890-1988 |
Images of hospital buildings, physicians, nurses, interns, and student nurses in both formal groups and work settings. |
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Otto's Suburban Dairy Photographs |
86 |
1928-1968 |
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. |
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Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company Photographs |
248 |
1903-1924 |
Railroad construction projects; bridges and stations. |
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Pittsburgh Public Schools |
686 |
1911-1978 |
School buildings, events, students, teachers, parents, and board members. |
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Richard E. Rauh Photographs |
56 |
1891-1930s |
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. |
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Seder Family Photographs |
22 |
1910-1960s |
Images of the Frank and Seder clothing store, business associates, and Isaac Seder's family. |
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Trimble Company |
126 |
1924-1951 |
Building construction projects. |
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William V. Winans, Jr. Photograph Collection |
141 |
1958-1961 |
Civic Arena (later known as Mellon Arena) construction photographs. |
