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Moorhead Parklet

1949

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Moorhead Parklet
  • Title
  • Moorhead Parklet
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B019.F14.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B019.F14.I02
  • Description
  • Children play near a fountain at the Moorhead Parklet, located on the corner of Enoch and Granville Streets in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood. Early in the nineteenth century the Hill District contained country estates, working farms, coal mines, and a village of black freedmen. Eventually the Hill District became a place of diverse cultures and many levels of prosperity. During the twentieth century, the older ethnic and Jewish population moved away and the Hill became known as the Harlem of Pittsburgh, a place where the best jazz could be heard. Urban renewal in the 1950s removed virtually all of the Lower Hill.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Moorhead Parklet (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Playgrounds--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African American children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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