Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal

1951-08

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Title
Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal
Creator
Clyde Hare
Identifier
MSP285.B022.F15.I04
Source Identifier
MSP285.B022.F15.I04
Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad freight terminal warehouses located between Penn and Liberty Avenues and extending from 11th to 16th Streets in the Strip District section of Pittsburgh. The buildings, in modified form, are presently standing and house corporate offices. The tall skyscraper in the background is the 44-story Gulf Building (also known as the Gulf Tower), located at Seventh Avenue and Grant Street. It was designed by the architectural firm of Trowbridge & Livingston in 1930-32, and was the tallest building in Pittsburgh until 1970.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Penn Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Sixteenth Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Strip District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Warehouses--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
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