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Highland Park Entrance

May 3, 1960

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Highland Park Entrance
  • Title
  • Highland Park Entrance
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • May 3, 1960
  • Identifier
  • 715.60109132_12.CP
  • Description
  • The main entrance to Highland Park on Highland Avenue. The gates have been described as copies of the "Gates of Munich" in Germany and consist of granite shafts formed by four Doric columns and surmounted by heroic bronze groups gesturing welcome. A bronze female figure at the base of each column holds a torch supplied with incandescent lights. Flanking each column is an ornamental balustrade on the end of which is a bronze eagle with wings spread. The gates were completed in 1896 and stand 56 feet high. These were some of the first works done by Giuseppe Moretti in Pittsburgh.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Streets
    Parks
    Sculpture
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Highland Park (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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