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Future site of the United States Steel Tower

1941-02-14

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Future site of the United States Steel Tower
  • Title
  • Future site of the United States Steel Tower
  • Creator
  • Hod Lewis
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F39.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F39.I02
  • Description
  • Looking toward downtown Pittsburgh from the top of the Duquesne Prep School on Webster Avenue in the Hill District, this photograph shows in the foreground the site that was to become the USX Tower (today known as U.S. Steel Tower). In the center of the photograph is the old Sun-Telegraph Building just above Grant Street. Behind the Sun-Telegraph Building can be seen the First Lutheran Church on Grant Street. To the left in the background is the William Penn Hotel.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Sun-Telegraph Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    First Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    William Penn Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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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