(Downtown: Cleaning the Exterior of the Oliver Building)

1951

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(Downtown: Cleaning the Exterior of the Oliver Building)
  • Title
  • (Downtown: Cleaning the Exterior of the Oliver Building)
  • Creator
  • Hare, Clyde
  • Date
  • 1951
  • Identifier
  • 85.4.71
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 85.4.71
  • Description
  • Workers remove years of grime and soot from the exterior of the Oliver Building in downtown Pittsburgh. Building owners and managers in the Golden Triangle spent more than $2.5 million in removing the soot, caused by the more than 1200 manufacturing facilities in the area, from the city's skyscrapers and office buildings.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Henry R. Oliver Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Buildings--Cleaning--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Hare, Pat
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  • Rights Holder
  • Hare, Pat