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(Buildings: Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary)

ca. 1885-1896

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(Buildings: Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary)
  • Title
  • (Buildings: Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary)
  • Creator
  • American
  • Date
  • ca. 1885-1896
  • Identifier
  • 85.4.15
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 85.4.15
  • Description
  • View of Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary from across the Ohio River. Now called the State Correctional Institution, the penitentiary (or prison) was originally built in 1876-82. It still stands today at Doerr Street on the Ohio River at Woods Run. The turrets with their dormers and arched windows have been removed and the building looks considerably more sober today. E.M. Butz, architect.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Rivers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Ohio River.
    Prisons--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Doerr Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Woods Run (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    State Correctional Institution (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Butz, E. M.
  • Source
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs
  • Rights Information
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