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 the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chatham College Archives, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, and Point Park University Archives. 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 funding from the Hillman Library Endowment and the Institute of Museum & Library Services.

Pittsburgh, circa 1804
Painting by George Beck

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.

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	Full-Text Collection Search or browse over 1,025 books published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In celebration of Pittburgh's 250th anniversary, we added hundreds of books to the collection in 2008.
	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.
	Image Collections View over 11,000 images documenting historic Pittsburgh from the collections and archives of six local cultural institutions. Updated monthly!
	Archival Finding Aids Search and browse guides to the contents of nearly 1,000 archival and manuscript collections.
	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 1717 to 2007.
	Catalog of the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the History Center.

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