City Landscapes and Urban Spaces

Additional Digital Collections related to City Landscapes and Urban Spaces

Extension of the Pittsburgh City Limits Minute Books

Flood Commission of Pittsburgh

Joel B Levinson Photographs

Paris Exhibition of 1900: Le Lyon Republicain

Paul Slantis Photographs

Pittsburgh Prints from the Collection of Wesley Pickard

Robert G Pflaum Photograph Collection

Russel H Heffley Photographs

William H Wolf Photographs

For more Archival Collections related to City Landscapes and Urban Spaces, please visit the Archival & Manuscript Collections page.

This material primarily documents the built environment and infrastructure in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania through visual images and maps; it also includes numerous reports on city report and studies..

Archives of Industrial Society Photograph Collection

Images visually document a wide range of topics relating to the history of Pittsburgh including neighborhoods, infrastructure, and landscape selected from the AIS vertical files.

Bureau of Building Inspections

Contains yearly dockets of building permits and monthly reports of issued building permits by the Bureau of Building Inspection (City of Pittsburgh), including three volumes which span 1894-1908 of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, prior to annexation by the City of Pittsburgh.

Charles Richardson Photographs

Visual images by Charles Richardson which depict life in Pittsburgh, including Downtown, steel mills, and neighborhoods between 1952-1954.

The City Directories

The City Directories contains directories published between 1815 and 1945 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.

City of Pittsburgh Geodetic and Topographic Survey Maps

Maps prepared by the City of Pittsburgh Department of Planning staff beginning in 1923 and maintained into the 1960s. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes grid index and legend.

G.M. Hopkins Company Maps

Contains 46 volumes that show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.

Pittsburgh Census Tract Maps and Data

Maps and data on the Pittsburgh Census for the 1910, 1920, 1930, 1970, and 1980 Decennial Censuses.

Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection

Visual images from the 1900s-1970s commissioned by the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works show parks, recreation facilities, and athletic events as well as hospital exteriors and interiors, mayoral events, traffic situations, and general street scenes of Pittsburgh.

Public Administration Reports and Studies

The collection contains both published and unpublished reports and studies of public projects and agencies that focus primarily on Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.