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(Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)

1897

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(Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)
  • Title
  • (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)
  • Creator
  • American
  • Date
  • 1897
  • Identifier
  • 83.84.14
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 83.84.14
  • Description
  • The newly constructed Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. The structure, designed by architects Longfellow, Alden & Harlow in 1895, stretches 600 feet long on its Schenley Plaza facade and almost 800 feet long on its Forbes Avenue side. This eight-acre building is the grandest monument of Beaux Arts planning in Pittsburgh and appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911 as the exemplar of the modern museum.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Carnegie Library (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of 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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