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Guide to the Gene Rapp Photographs 1930s-1987
Metadata Details
- Title
- Gene Rapp photographs 1930-1987
- Subject
- Rapp, Gene, Associated Photographers., Westinghouse Electric Corporation., United States Steel Corporation., United States Bureau of Mines., Photography--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--20th century
- Description
- The Gene Rapp photographs primarily consist of over 300 industrial stock photographs and hundreds of 35 mm slides of steel mills and various mining operations. Some of the images were taken for Westinghouse are of locations outside of southwestern Pennsylvania, including photographing lights the company created for the Verrazano Bridge in New York City. The majority of the images depict the underground mining operations and rescue training; the insides of steel mills and various industrial shots; and aerial shots of Pittsburgh. Boxes one, two, and five contain industrial images, Westinghouse photographs including N.Y. installations, U.S. Steel stock images, pictorial art, and aerial views of Pittsburgh. Boxes three and four contain mining images and slides. They depict 19th and 20th century excavations, strip mining operations, men working underground, and some of the equipment used in the extraction process. There are images of accidents and mining disasters., Gene Rapp photographs, 1930-1987, PSS 0047, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Gene Rapp Gift 1996 1996.0187, Gene Rapp was a photographer in Pittsburgh, Pa. during the mid-20th century. He worked for Associated Photographers during the 1950s, and photographed for Westinghouse Electric Corporation during the 1950s and 1960s. Rapp images include aerial shots of the City of Pittsburgh, mining operations, steel mills, Westinghouse research facilities, industrial scenes, as well as creating photographic art., Gift of Gene Rapp, Processed PSS 0047 05/11 A.. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Rapp, Gene, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1930-1987
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, photographs, 4.0 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:795922148, pitt:US-QQS-pss0047
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-pss0047
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- 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., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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