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Downtown Pittsburgh before Smoke Control

1945

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Downtown Pittsburgh before Smoke Control
  • Title
  • Downtown Pittsburgh before Smoke Control
  • Creator
  • Newman-Schmidt Studios
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F17.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F17.I03
  • Description
  • Downtown Pittsburgh at 9:20AM in the fall of 1945 before smoke control. Smoke combined with smog often produced such “night” scenes. In 1949 the City of Pittsburgh was joined by the Allegheny County Board of County Commissioners to fight for smoke control and to adopt a County Smoke Control Ordinance. In 1945 there were 1,293 manufacturing facilities in Pittsburgh, which produced the smog and pollution that the city was notorious for until 1950.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Smoky City (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Smog.
    Air Pollution--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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