Forfar Street Bridge

May 27, 1914

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Forfar Street Bridge
  • Title
  • Forfar Street Bridge
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • May 27, 1914
  • Identifier
  • 715.144094.CP
  • Description
  • A crowd of people look down to flooded Pittsburgh Junction Railroad tracks outside of Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Two men stand in rain coats and hats up to their knees in rain water. The image is documenting reconstruction efforts to repair damage caused by the Thirty-third Street Sewer Explosion, and is looking west. In the background, Higgins Lumber Co. is visible.
  • Extent
  • 6.5 x 8.5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Underground utility lines
    Public works
    Bridges
    Commercial buildings
    Floods
    33rd Street Sewer (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Explosion, 1913
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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