North Side looking toward downtown Pittsburgh

1940/1950

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North Side looking toward downtown Pittsburgh

Title
North Side looking toward downtown Pittsburgh
Creator
Clyde Hare
Identifier
MSP285.B009.F02.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B009.F02.I01
Description
Porterfield Street in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. In the distance is downtown Pittsburgh. Allegheny General Hospital (left background) built in 1930, was designed by New York architects York & Sawyer. The 17-story structure, designed in the Italian Romanesque style, is the most conspicuous building on the North Side. 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 such as industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Heinz, B.F. Jones, William Thaw, Jr., and Henry Oliver; scientists John Brashear and Samuel Pierpont Langley; and writers and artists Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mary Cassatt, and Martha Graham resided on the North Side.
Genre
photographs
Subject
North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Porterfield Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Allegheny General Hospital (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
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