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Hill District Scene

January 3, 1933

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Hill District Scene
  • Title
  • Hill District Scene
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • January 3, 1933
  • Identifier
  • 715.3317837.CP
  • Description
  • Fifth Avenue and Dinwiddie Street looking west to Downtown along Fifth Avenue showing the 76 Hamilton Streetcar, the Fifth Avenue High School, the Ralph Schugar Funeral Home, and surrounding businesses in the Bluff/Uptown neighborhood. Fifth Avenue High School, designed by local architect Edward Stotz, opened in May 1896 as one of first fireproof schools in Pennsylvania. The Ralph Schugar Funeral home was founded in the Hill District in 1919 and relocated to Shadyside in 1937.
  • Extent
  • 6.5 x 8.5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Streets
    Commercial strips
    Street-railroads
    Automobiles
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Bluff (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Uptown (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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