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Lower Hill District Street Scene

1956-10

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Lower Hill District Street Scene
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District Street Scene
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F14.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F14.I02
  • Description
  • The Lower Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh looking east on Fifth Avenue before demolition to make way for the Civic Arena (Mellon Arena) began. The Sixth Avenue intersection is in the center of the photograph. The reconstruction of the Lower Hill began in 1955 with $17 million in federal grants. This project encompassed 100 acres, 1300 buildings, 413 businesses, and 8000 residents (a majority of them African-Americans) that were displaced in an attempt to extend the revitalization of the adjacent Golden Triangle. During the twentieth century, the older ethnic and Jewish population moved away and the Hill became known as the Harlem of Pittsburgh, a place where the best jazz could be heard.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Fifth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Court Flower Shop (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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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