Pennsylvania Railroad Union Station

1870/1954

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Title
Pennsylvania Railroad Union Station
Identifier
MSP33.B013.F08.I01
Source Identifier
MSP33.B013.F08.I01
Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad Union Depot Building, built in 1857, before it was destroyed by fire during the Railroad Riots of 1877. In late July 1877 while militia tried to disperse a large mob of strikers at the Twenty-eighth Street crossing in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, shots were fired and about twenty people, mostly innocent bystanders were killed and a number of others wounded. The mob began breaking into shops and started to seize guns and ammunition, which it used to fire on the militiamen. After the troops began a hasty retreat, looting and burning broke out throughout the City of Pittsburgh. All in all, the mob had destroyed 1600 railroad cars and 126 locomotives and burned sixteen buildings, a grain elevator, several machine shops, roundhouses, and the Union Depot (pictured). In the background is Central High School, built in 1872 and located at Bedford Avenue and Crawford Street.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad Union Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Railroad terminals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Central High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
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