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Fort Pitt Tunnel Dedication

1960

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Fort Pitt Tunnel Dedication
  • Title
  • Fort Pitt Tunnel Dedication
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F05.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F05.I01
  • Description
  • Construction workers and other spectators watch as the first car, a vintage model reminiscent of the days when the South Hills suburb of Pittsburgh was being developed, enters the new Fort Pitt Tunnels. Seated directly behind the unidentified man in the front passenger’s seat is Mayor Joseph Barr and behind him, waving his hat, is Governor David L. Lawrence, one of the major forces behind the Renaissance of Pittsburgh.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Pitt Tunnel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Lawrence, David Leo, 1889-1966.
    Barr, Joseph.
    Tunnels--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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