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Lower Hill District Scene

1950-08-01

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Lower Hill District Scene
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District Scene
  • Creator
  • Dept. of City Planning
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F06.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F06.I01
  • Description
  • Looking east on rear yards of dwellings facing Bedford Avenue, Fullerton Street, and Gilmore Way. Early in the nineteenth century Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood contained country estates, working farms, coal mines, and a village of black freedmen. By 1929 the Hill District was populated by a diverse number of ethnic groups. The Hill District was divided into areas that reflected the ethnic makeup of that neighborhood. Some of these areas were called Little Italy, Polish Hill, Athens, Little Syria, Jewish “Ghetto,” and the Black Belt. During the twentieth century the older ethnic and Jewish population moved away and the Hill District became known as the Harlem of Pittsburgh, a place where the best jazz could be heard. Urban renewal in the 1950s removed virtually all of the Lower Hill.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Lower Hill (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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