Collections
Historic Pittsburgh comprises a variety of primary and secondary sources from multiple partners about the greater Pittsburgh region, including a wide range of publications, maps, manuscripts, visual images, and audio-video materials, that support personal and scholarly research.
Edna M. Parkins Berg and Carl Berg Papers
Collection contains a diary written by Edna M. Parkins Berg and Carl Berg in 1921. They kept the diary together, recording their daily housework and activities and noting their expenses on groceries and household items.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Edward J. Shourek Photographs
Images taken by Edward J. Shourek that depict family and friends, home in Homewood, Central High School, George Westinghouse High School, Syria Mosque, and locations in Ohio, West Virginia, and New York locations (Buffalo and Niagara Falls).
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Edward Rocco (E.R.) Montagna Diary
Diary of Edward Rocco (E.R.) Montagna from 1939. Montagna was an Italian immigrant, former carpenter, and musician who lived in the Pittsburgh area. Entries cover topics such as family, renting, finances, health, and his career.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Eichleay Engineering Corporation Records and Photographs
Visual images from Eichleay Engineering Corporation documenting company's role in moving residences, businesses, and other large structures and objects between 1892-1970.
Contributor: Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Eliphalet Smith Account Book
Contains Eliphalet Smith's account book of his personal and professional transactions between 1807 and 1824.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Elsie H. Hillman Papers
Public speeches delivered by Elsie H. Hillman to a variety of audiences and gatherings.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Emergency Influenza Hospital Nurses (Duquesne, Pa.) Photographs
This collection contains eight photographs and two newspaper clippings of African-American influenza nurses who worked in an emergency influenza hospital on Superior Street in Duquesne, Pa. during the epidemic in 1918.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Emerging Masters Collection, 1954-1989
Collection documents the concert performance history of the University of Pittsburgh's Music Department from 1954 to 1989.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Ephraim Douglass Ledgers
Consists of four ledgers that primarily document the stock and sale of supplies at Forts Pitt and Kittanning during the 1770s.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Ethnic Fraternal Organizations Oral History Project Collection
The Ethnic Fraternal Organizations Oral History Project consists of interviews conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Department of History in 1975-1976. The oral history project sought to explore the roles and influences of ethnic fraternal organizations in the Jewish, Black, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and other ethnic communities in the Pittsburgh area.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Extension of the Pittsburgh City Limits Minute Book
Consists of a minute book detailing through various reports the extension of the limits of the City of Pittsburgh between 1836-1841; included are reports from courts, surveyors, and a commission carrying out orders from the state assembly.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh