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Forbes Avenue and McKee Place

April 5, 1972

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Forbes Avenue and McKee Place
  • Title
  • Forbes Avenue and McKee Place
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • April 5, 1972
  • Identifier
  • 715.72123139_03.CP
  • Description
  • View of Forbes Avenue, looking north east towards the intersection with McKee Place. In view in the distance is the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning (construction began in 1926, finished in 1934). Partially visible is one of the Litchfield Towers student dormitories of the University of Pittsburgh. Originally called the Tower Residence Halls, in 1971 the towers were renamed after the University's twelfth Chancellor (from 1956-1965) Edward H. Litchfield, who died in an airplane crash in 1968.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Service stations
    Automobiles
    Pedestrians
    Buildings
    Streets
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Central Oakland (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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