12/21/2004

Images of Historic Pittsburgh


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Originally uploaded by TigerTigerTiger.
"Historic Pittsburgh is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet.

This website enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the History Center, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries and museums in providing online access to their respective materials."

In addition to digital images, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

"With new material added over time, the site now also comprises 521 books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, 26 volumes of plat maps from 1872 to 1939, census records from 1850 to 1880 and a timeline of city history from 1717 to 2003."