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Fort Pitt Museum

1970

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Fort Pitt Museum
  • Title
  • Fort Pitt Museum
  • Creator
  • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B008.F12.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B008.F12.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “This architecturally unique Museum structure is on the exact location of one of the bastions of Fort Pitt, and follows the precise shape and contour of the original. Gun platforms and embrasures have been re-created atop the structure. Entrance to the Museum is through the main door (left center of photograph); the forested ridge in the background is Mount Washington, on the far bank of the Monongahela River. Just beyond the flagpole (right) is the famous Fort Pitt Blockhouse, the only surviving structure in the relatively small area that once was America’s most vital frontier post.” The Fort Pitt Museum, located at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh, was built by the General State Authority for the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters as part of the larger development of Point State Park. The Museum, opened in June 1969, includes exhibits and dioramas on both the military and early industrial history of Pittsburgh.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Pitt Museum (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Blockhouse (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. 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.
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