A man sits in the corner having fun wearing a lady’s hat while he plays the mandolin. Beside him in a white wicker rocking chair, a young girl with a dark scarf around the collar of her white blouse holds a guitar. She has her long hair pulled back in a braid. The lady in the dark rocking chair is listening to the man with the mandolin. Her hair is pulled back in a bun, and her skirt is long and dark. 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. black and white photograph.
In April 1955, Wanda Jennings, Mrs. America of 1954, was on hand to greet visitors at the opening of the latest development in fully–planned community living – Garden City in Monroeville, Pa..
Italian-American extended family picnic at North Park, Allegheny County Park, Allegheny County, PA. The family lived in Pittsburgh and would often travel to North Park for picnics. Photo shows Marie Ali, Rose (Ali) Heckel, Skip Black, and Domenica (Cicero) Marguglio at a picnic table in front of a large tree. the women are all wearing print dresses.
Looking northward on Perry Highway in 1919 Pine Township, Allegheny County, PA. Joseph Brooker Property on both sides of road with Saint Alphonsus Church steeple visible on left. Current intersection of Church Road with Route 910.
Three Degree Road (currently Babcock Boulevard) in Town of McCandless, Allegheny County, PA. Photo shows a rural dirt road bending to the left. Photo shows station 356 looking towards station 357.
Three Degree Road (currently Babcock Boulevard) in Town of McCandless, Allegheny County, PA looking northeast. Photo shows a rural dirt road with a three story house, a barn and outbuildings. A horse drawn wagon is seen on the road. Photo shows station 376 looking towards station 381. House is located on current Babcock Boulevard opposite Emery Drive and is still standing.
Andrew Watenpool chicken coop and shed stood in path of new Brandt School Road and were moved during the 1930 improvement. The farm was located at the intersection of Brandt School and Pine Creek roads in Franklin Township (now Franklin Park Borough), Allegheny County, PA
Three Degree Road (currently Babcock Boulevard) in Town of McCandless, Allegheny County, PA. Photo shows a rural dirt road bending to the left. A house can be seen in the distance on the left. Photo shows station 388 looking towards station 390.
View of Highland Road in Town of McCandless, Allegheny County, PA. In view is a house on the left and a school on the right. Several signs can also be seen. One says 15 MPH SCHOOL ZONE. Another warns DANGER MEN WORKING while a small one advertises Breezewood. Also in view is an automobile driving by the school.
Perry McCurdy's home next to the McCurdy garage on Allegheny Avenue. The child in the photo is believed to be Stella Mae Issacs. The McCurdy family were longtime Oakmont residents. James Oliver McCurdy and Mary Mateer McCurdy owned and operated a general store at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Fifth Street at 500 Delaware Avenue. Their son, John McCurdy, married Eleanor McCurdy and they owned McCurdy Mercury on Allegheny Avenue near Edgewater Steel until Mercury downsized and cut out all the small dealerships. Diane McCurdy Nicholls, daughter of John and Eleanor, was born and raised in Oakmont at 421 Fifth Street. Originally from the collection and reproduced courtesy of Diane McCurdy Nicholls.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Immigration declarations made in Cambria County by persons renouncing their allegiance to their former country and swearing allegiance to the United States.
Personal data sheets collecting service and personal information and photographs from veterans from the Beaverdale (pa) area. Personal information such as a service number or Social Security number have been redacted.
Personal data sheets collecting service and personal information and photographs from veterans from the Beaverdale (pa) area. Personal information such as a service number or Social Security number have been redacted.
Personal data sheets collecting service and personal information and photographs from veterans from the Beaverdale (pa) area. Personal information such as a service number or Social Security number have been redacted.
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad (P&WV). Built 1870's. 200 "Hopedale" , built by Pullman as "Mather", 1909 at Pittsburgh Bi-Centennial Railroad Fair on P&LE Team Tracks.
This is a view of the front Bentley Hall at Allegheny College in Meadville, Crawford County. This structure was built in 1820. This photograph was not used in Stotz's 1936 book entitled Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania (image C3-1d).
Team photograph of an Irene Kaufmann Settlement boys' outdoor track team, the Press Champions, May 1924. Identified are the following: Row 1, Pincus, Herby Angel, Marty Reiter, Benny Siegel, and Willie Seewald; Row 2, Hillie Gross, Ben Rockman, Sam Dugan, Jackie Heller, Lou Heller, Bill Heller, and Max Neustein; Row 3, Doc Ratner, Jack Lupowitz, Milton Spiegel, Harry Levine, (unknown first name) Fiddleman, Max Lipsky, and Sidney Teller.
Team photograph of a 1952 Squirrel Hill women's softball team. Identified are the following: Row 1 Bill Tovey, unidentified, Mickey Weisberg, Mona Katz, Mickey Langue, Gail Kruman, Marga Randall, and unidentified; Row 2 Mary Sternacheck, Dolores (Dee) McConville, Sandy Chester, Myra (Jobby) Smith, Beverly Balukin, Bonita (Bunny) Reingold, and Peggy Heatley.
Herron Hill took its name from the land surrounding the mansion of John Herron, mayor of Pittsburgh, 1849-1850. The mansion, located in the Minersville area, was ravaged by fire in 1877. Herron Hill Junior High School, designed by architects Avalon and Center, opened in 1928. The school was closed in 1974, and after extensive remodeling, reopened as the Margaret Milliones Middle School. The school, located at 3117 Centre Avenue, is known today as the Margaret Milliones Technical Academy.
Westinghouse High School was named for the noted inventor and manufacturer, George Westinghouse, whose home was in the vicinity of the school. The school, located at 1101 North Murtland Avenue, was completed in 1924. In 1932 an annex was built. Architects Ingham and Boyd designed both the original building and the annex. The forerunner of Westinghouse High School was the Brushton High School, which was organized in September 1912. The school remained in the Baxter Building until 1923 when it was transferred to the present site and its name was changed to Westinghouse. One of the entrances to the newer part of the school is a memorial to the boys of Westinghouse High School who lost their lives in World War I. The school serves the East Liberty and Homewood-Brushton sections of Pittsburgh.
Lincoln School, located at 328 Lincoln Avenue, honors the name of Abraham Lincoln. The first Lincoln School was built in 1869. In 1883 wings were added to the sides of the building and in 1892 an adjoining frame structure was built to house the high school students. In 1922 Lincoln was reorganized as an elementary school. The present Lincoln School, designed by architects Thomas Pringle and Oliver J. Robling, was built in 1931. Lincoln School serves students in the Lincoln-Larimer and East Liberty neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
Description of the photograph reads, “Volunteer groups augment the number of field trips taken by children. The Junior League of Pittsburgh takes a group to a concert.” The Junior League of Pittsburgh, located at 1620 Murray Avenue, is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is entirely educational and charitable.
Chatham Elementary School was located at 227 Bonvue Street in Pittsburgh’s Perry North neighborhood. Chatham School was built in 1923 to replace Perry School, which had been built two years prior replacing earlier Chatham schools. Perry School then became a middle school, a high school, and finally the present Perry Traditional Academy.
The Public Safety Building of the City of Pittsburgh, built on the site that was once occupied by the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The new building, intended as an adjunct to the City-County Office Building a block away on Grant Street, was built to house municipal courts and police administrative offices. Across the river in the left background are the warehouses on the grounds of the old Pennsylvania, Lake Erie Railroad, which would become Station Square, a popular shopping and nightlife center on the South Side.
The Carnegie Museum and Library complex in Oakland as seen from the nearby Cathedral of Learning. The original building housing the natural history museum, art gallery, music hall, and library was constructed from 1891-1895 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie. This photograph also shows the Sarah M. Scaife Gallery under construction (left background) to the left of the main building along Forbes Avenue. The architect of this addition that opened in 1974 was Edward Larrabee Barnes and the builder was Turner Construction Company. The addition was funded by a gift of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation and the Scaife family.
Inside a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets and Duquesne Way, 40 buildings were demolished to make way for the $50 million Gateway Center Project that included three 20-story office buildings. The largest structure to fall to the wrecking ball was the Mayfair Hotel (left). A 75-man wrecking crew was responsible for clearing the area. This marked the beginning of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance.
The Liberty Tunnels, or the “Liberty Tubes” as they are known locally, were built in 1924. The Tunnels which have a total length of 5889 feet, helped alleviate the problem of motorists going over or around Mount Washington to get to the South Hills suburb of Pittsburgh. The boring was completed in July 1922. By January 1924 the tunnels were substantially complete and opened to traffic. Officers counted the number of vehicles entering and the hours of use were limited to keep the exhaust gases from building to dangerous levels. In 1928 a mechanical plant with four tall stacks was built over the center of the Tubes to draw exhaust and provide a constant supply of fresh air. Four years after the completion of the Tubes, the Liberty Bridge was completed, opening on March 27, 1928. The Tubes carried approximately 25,000 vehicles in 1932 and in 2000 the daily average traffic was 63,027 vehicles.
A polluted Chartiers Creek directly behind the Federal Enameling and Stamping Company in McKees Rocks. Chartiers Creek and its watershed, an area that comprises approximately 277 square miles within Washington and Allegheny Counties, begins in Washington County and flows north for about thirty-five to forty miles until it empties into the Ohio River five miles below Pittsburgh near McKees Rocks. Some of its tributaries include, Vance's, Little's, Pollock's, McCorkle's, Kenny's, and Brush Runs. Chartiers Creek, one of the most polluted watersheds in the state of Pennsylvania, derived its name from Peter Chartiers, a Native American interpreter.
The first Children’s Zoo opened in 1949 in Pittsburgh as a result of a grant from the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation to the Pittsburgh Zoo. Here children were able to walk on the soft, spongy tongue of a whale or visit a giant piece of cheese that was home to dozens of mice. Later, the original “Mother Goose” theme and accompanying exhibits were considered inappropriate for animal exhibition. In 1986 the Zoo began an interim program to replace the nursery rhyme exhibits with buildings that would adequately house the animals until a new Children’s Zoo could be built. A temporary display, Children’s Farm, opened in 1991 featuring domestic animals and animal care demonstrations. In May 1995, the all-new “Kids Kingdom” opened where even the playground equipment replicates animals’ motion.
Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Since smoke control became effective in Pittsburgh, building owners and managers in the Golden Triangle alone have expended more than $2-1/2 million in erasing the grime and smoke from the city’s skyscrapers and office buildings.” On September 23, 1947, the Allegheny County Board of Commissioners appointed a Smoke Control Advisory Committee to study smoke conditions in the county and to make recommendations for the regulation of the production and emission of smoke emanating from chimneys, smokestacks, or other sources within Allegheny County’s limits. In 1949 the City of Pittsburgh was joined by the Allegheny County Board of County Commissioners to fight for smoke control and to adopt a County Smoke Control Ordinance. Here the 24-story Henry W. Oliver Building, designed by the Chicago architectural firm of D.H. Burnham and Company and built in 1910, is being cleaned.
Looking southeast from the County Field Office is a view of the Greater Pittsburgh Airport Terminal Building under construction. Ground for the Greater Pittsburgh Airport was broken on July 18, 1946, in Moon and Findlay Townships, 16 miles west of Pittsburgh. The construction project was financed with a peoples’ bond issue. By the time of the dedication on May 31, 1952, the cost had run up to $33 million. The terminal building, known as “The Taj Mahal” by some residents, was one of the largest in the world, encompassing 750,000 square feet, and was actually a small city within itself, containing 65 hotel rooms, restaurants, shops, banking facilities, and many other conveniences. The terminal shut down in 1992 when the new terminal in Findlay Township opened.
The early stages of demolition for the redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District neighborhood showing Wylie Avenue (right) and Webster Avenue (left). The Hill District, one of the oldest residential sections in Pittsburgh, began in the late 1840s when banker Thomas Mellon bought a tract of farmland on the slopes nearest the city and subdivided it into smaller lots. In subsequent years successive waves of immigrants including Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles and, finally, African Americans populated the Hill. After World War II, during the city’s Lower Hill redevelopment, 80 city blocks or 100 acres were cleared and 8000 residents, or one-fifth of the Hill’s population at the time, were relocated to make way for the Civic Arena development project.
Former Governor of Pennsylvania David L. Lawrence speaking at the dedication ceremonies of the new Samuel and Ettie Klein Frank Wing of Montefiore Hospital, which was Phase I of a planned building expansion.
James A. Dorsey with YMCA staff at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. Dorsey, pictured in the center of the back row, was the physical director of the camp from September, 1918 until April, 1919.
The H.J. Heinz Company main plant on the banks of the Allegheny River with the North Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh in the background. The H.J. Heinz Company was founded in 1869 by Henry John Heinz (1844-1919). By the early twentieth century, the main plant had grown to a group of buildings covering ten city blocks and comprising 50 acres of floor space. By 1919 the H.J. Heinz Company had over 6,500 employees, 25 branch factories, 85 salting stations, 53 tomato receiving stations, and 111 pickle receiving stations. By 1995 H.J. Heinz Company’s global sales were over $8 billion with almost half coming from its overseas operations and seventy-five percent from non-Heinz brand products. The large structure in the right is the Finished Goods Warehouse, completed in 1953.
Lane’s Hotel located at 114-20 Anderson Street in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The North Side was known as Allegheny City until it was annexed by City of Pittsburgh in 1907. The North Side was a factory town, known for its incredible variety of manufactured goods, market places, educational institutions, and churches. Many of Pittsburgh’s elite resided at one time on the North Side, such as industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Heinz, B.F. Jones, William Thaw, Jr., and Henry Oliver; scientists John Brashear and Samuel Pierpont Langley; and the writers and artists Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mary Cassatt and Martha Graham. Around 1900 Brighton Road and Ridge Avenue contained more millionaires than any two blocks in the world.
Graphic artist Nancy J. Halfast works on a H.J. Heinz Company product label. During the early twentieth century, a large contingent of designers turned out elegant signs and labels, such as the keystone-shaped (from the Keystone State) ketchup labels, as well as display and point-of-sales materials. Printed on lithographic stones, often with 20 colors, their registration and deep jewel-like tones were very detailed.
In this photograph are Isaac Seder's wife and four children: Harold (left front), Jules (middle), and Jerome (on the right), Gertrude Seder, and Theodore (back left). Isaac Seder married Gertrude Friedberg in 1904.
The Frank and Seder dinner commemorating the opening of a new store was held at the William Penn Hotel on April 21, 1918. Isaac Seder is seated at the front center table with his wife, Gertrude Seder standing behind him in a black dress.
This photograph shows construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway station in Allegheny City. Here we can see inside the construction site. A wooden fence has been constructed around the site. The foundation of the original building has been exposed and a worker is standing in the rubble.
Grace Kendall, with her hand on her cheek, casually rests her arm on a decorative wicker chair. Grace has her hair secured back with a bow. Sitting in the wicker chair wearing a white dress with lace and ruffles, she looks like she could be daydreaming. Transcribed from the back 'Grace Kendal.' 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. black and white photograph.
The Journal of the Engineering Society of Lehigh University (1885-1890) was a quarterly student publication that contained articles on various fields in engineering. The journal also included research papers on local industries, such Lehigh Valley Railroad and The Bethlehem Water Works.
64 x 44 and Depicts two soldiers, one male and one female, firing a mortar. Printed in black outlines with maroon lettering against a light olive green background.
The first Lehigh University student yearbook was published in 1875. Until 1931, it was produced by the sophomore or junior class. From 1931 onward, it has been produced by the senior class.
The first Lehigh University student yearbook was published in 1875. Until 1931, it was produced by the sophomore or junior class. From 1931 onward, it has been produced by the senior class.
Government correspondence between members of the House of Representatives; see also Rayburn's reply on October 11; for a biography and a guide to research collections, see also (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108).
See also additional letters in the collection from Irving. See also Kemble's biography and a guide to research collections of his papers (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000084).
