View from the Eastern Portal of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel

1950

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View from the Eastern Portal of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel
  • Title
  • View from the Eastern Portal of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel
  • Creator
  • Pennsylvania State Highway Department
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F09.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F09.I03
  • Description
  • Eastern portal of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel under construction. The Department of Highways on August 5, 1948, announced that construction of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel would begin on September 1 of that same year. At a total cost of $18 million, it was the most costly single project built by the State Highways Department and completed the last link in the first eight-mile section of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway. The total length of the tunnel is 4,225 feet with a posted vertical clearance of 13 feet, 6 inches. The width of the tunnel is approximately 28 feet. The Squirrel Hill Tunnel was dedicated on June 5, 1953.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
    Parkway East.
    Commercial Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Bridges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Bridge construction--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
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