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| PALMER'S PITTSBURGH 1905 |
| ALL THINGS PITTSBURGH |
| ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE PITT DIGITAL LIBRARY PHOTO RESTORATION DONE BY THE STEELCACTUS FOUNDATION |
| Tablets in Old City Hall Commemorating Civil War Subsistence Committee |
| GRAND WATER PARADE October 7th, 1885 Celebrating the Opening of the Davis Island Dam |
| BOYD'S HILL AFTER THE GREAT FIRE |
| THE FOSTER HOMESTEAD Birthplace of Stephen Foster, the Famous Composer Penn Avenue and Butler Street |
| HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS, MUNHALL, PA. |
| NATIONAL WORKS OF THE NATIONAL TUBE CO. AT McKEESPORT, PA. Largest Plant Manufacturing Wrought Pipe in the World |
| FINLEY HOMESTEAD East Liberty |
| THE PHILLIPS MINE & MILL SUPPLY COMPANY South Twenty-Third, South Twenty-Fourth & Mary Streets. Established in 1863. The Largest Concern Of Its Kind in the World. |
| H.J. HEINZ COMPANY'S GREAT FOOD PRODUCT ESTABLISHMENT |
| EAGLE COTTON MILLS Allegheny City |
| PITTSBURGH IN 1874 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY |
| SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND SMITHFIELD STREET THIS CORNER WOULD SOON BECOME KAUFMANN'S DEPARTMENT STORE AND THE LOCATION OF KAUFMANN'S CLOCK |
| PITTSBURGH BEFORE THE FIRE OF 1845 |
| ALLEGHENY ARSENAL EXPLOSION The Allegheny Arsenal, established in 1814, was an important supply and manufacturing center for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the site of the single largest civilian disaster during the war. On Wednesday, September 17, 1862, around 2 pm, the arsenal exploded. The explosion shattered windows in the surrounding community and was heard in Pittsburgh, over two miles away. At the sound of the first explosion, Col. John Symington, Commander of the Arsenal, rushed from his quarters and made his way up the hillside to the lab. As he approached, he heard the sound of a second explosion, followed by a third. Fire fighting equipment as well as a bucket brigade tried to douse the flames with water. The volunteer fire company from Pittsburgh arrived and assisted in bringing the fire under control. By the time the fire was put out, the lab had been reduced to a pile of smoldering rubble. 78 workers, mostly young women, were killed. 54 bodies were unidentified, and were buried in a mass grave in the nearby Allegheny Cemetery. Among those killed were 15-year old munitions assembler Catherine Burkhart, who lived at 184 38th Street. The explosion at the Arsenal was overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam, which occurred on the same day. The Battle at Antietam resulted in the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717. |
| THE BRADLEY TAVERN WATER STREET & FERRY STREET Where many notables were entertained in the early 80's of the 18th Century. |
| ALLEGHENY ARSENAL |
| NORTH COMMON, 1868 |
| HERRON HILL Rifle Pits put up by citizen's during war scare of 1863 |
| OLD TOWN HALL Allegheny City |
| OLD POST OFFICE Smithfield Street & Fifth Avenue |
| MONONGAHELA HOUSE The First Modern Hotel West of the Alleghenies |
| Schenley Mansion |
| EDGAR THOMSON STEEL WORKS, BESSEMER, PA. |
| DUQUESNE FURNACES AND STEEL WORKS, COCHRAN, PA. |
| THE UNION SWITCH & SIGNAL COMPANY, SWISSVALE, PA. |