Building Cleaning

1948/1956

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Building Cleaning
  • Title
  • Building Cleaning
  • Creator
  • Garry's Commercial Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F18.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Since smoke control became effective in Pittsburgh, building owners and managers in the Golden Triangle alone have expended more than $2-1/2 million in erasing the grime and smoke from the city’s skyscrapers and office buildings.” On September 23, 1947, the Allegheny County Board of Commissioners appointed a Smoke Control Advisory Committee to study smoke conditions in the county and to make recommendations for the regulation of the production and emission of smoke emanating from chimneys, smokestacks, or other sources within Allegheny County’s limits. 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. Here the 24-story Henry W. Oliver Building, designed by the Chicago architectural firm of D.H. Burnham and Company and built in 1910, is being cleaned.
  • Subject
  • Henry W. Oliver Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Buildings--Cleaning--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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