Pittsburgh's Industrial Past

1935/1980

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Pittsburgh's Industrial Past
  • Title
  • Pittsburgh's Industrial Past
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F19.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F19.I01
  • Description
  • Smoke emissions from a steel mill illustrates the extent of air pollution in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area prior to smoke control programs. In 1945 there were 1,293 manufacturing facilities in Pittsburgh, which produced the smog and pollution that the city was notorious for until 1950. 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. The Smoke Control Committee investigated and studied the potential problems of smoke pollution and periodically reported to the Board of County Commissioners with regulation and abatement recommendations.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.).Smoky City.
    Smoke prevention--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    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
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