Historic Pittsburgh

Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. This Web site enables access to historic material held by:

Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museum of Art
Chatham University Archives
Historical Society of Upper St. Clair
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 Archives.
Rodef Shalom Congregation

The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries, museums and institutions of higher learning in providing centralized access to selections of their respective historic materials.

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This project has received partial funding from the Hillman Library Endowment and the Institute of Museum & Library Services.

Pittsburgh, circa 1804
Painting by George Beck

	Texts Search or browse over 1,200 books about Pittsburgh published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We recently added a new text collection comprised of Pittsburgh city directories.
	Maps Search and view Hopkins Real Estate maps, the Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Flood Commission maps, and Geodetic and Topographic Survey maps of Pittsburgh.
	Images Search and browse over 31,000 images visually documenting Pittsburgh from the collections and archives of many local cultural heritage institutions and historical societies.
	Archival Finding Aids Search and browse guides to the contents of over 1,500 archival and manuscript collections from the Archives Service Center at Pitt and the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center.
	Census Records Search U.S. Census Schedules for the City of Pittsburgh (1850-1880) and Allegheny City (1850-1870)
	Chronology Search and browse a chronology of Pittsburgh covering nearly 300 years of local history (1717-2011).
	Videos View brief stock footage film clips of famous Pittsburgh landmarks and events by Bill Beal, a Pittsburgh filmmaker active from the 1940s through the 1990s.

The University of Pittsburgh provides access to the digital materials on the Historic Pittsburgh website for educational and research purposes only. Any other use of these materials, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly reproductions, redistribution, publication, or transmission, is strictly prohibited without written permission.

Historic Pittsburgh is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. Contact us.