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Lower North Side Scene
1970
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Title
Lower North Side Scene
Identifier
MSP57.B087.F08.I02
Source Identifier
MSP57.B087.F08.I02
Description
A neglected section of Pittsburgh's North Shore neighborhood. The North Side was originally the City of Allegheny before it was annexed to the City of Pittsburgh in 1907. The name Allegheny was derived from the “Allegewi” or “Alleghans” tribe that settled along the Allegheny River. The area was first settled by Andrew Long in 1740. By 1800 Allegheny had a population of 275, in 1870 it was 53,000, and by the turn of the century the population had grown to 100,000. Allegheny was incorporated as a city in 1840 and by the late nineteenth century it included steel mills, textile mills, glass factories, and cotton factories. The ethnic groups that settled in the area included Scotch-Irish, Germans, Croatians, Czechs, Slovaks, Carpatho-Rusyns, Ukrainians, and Greeks. Many of Pittsburgh’s elite resided at one time on the North Side, such as industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Heinz, B.F. Jones, William Thaw, Jr., and Henry Oliver; scientists John Brashear and Samuel Pierpont Langley; and the writers and artists Gertrude Stein, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mary Cassatt and Martha Graham.
Genre
photographs
Subject
North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Canal Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
H.J. Heinz Company Photographs
Rights Information
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center