Dishing some dirt on keeping Western Pennsylvanians clean “Brush, Broom, and Hammer.” Coming close on the heels of World War II, this posed photo of three of Pa Pitt’s…

  Pittsburgh’s “Three Sister” Bridges, the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Street Bridges. The “Three Sister” bridges were part of a massive series of bridge-building campaigns begun in 1924 by the…

  The original photo of the Rodman daguerreotype taken with a flash that helped bring out detail in the damaged plate. It is a “sixth plate” daguerreotype and measures 2.75…

  Fifth Avenue and Market Street (Market Square), March 18, 1936. Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, Detre Library & Archives at the History Center. On St. Patrick’s Day in…

February 20 is a day of celebrations. In some years, it’s Presidents’ Day. It’s National Cherry Pie Day (George Washington’s supporters may have had something to do with that). For…

An aluminum tree in the lobby of the Alcoa Building, 1966. Alcoa Company Photographs, MSP 282, Detre Library & Archives at the History Center. Emerging in the mid-1950s, aluminum Christmas…

The #Pixburgh: A Photographic Experience exhibition opens on Dec. 17, 2016 at the Heinz History Center. Read all posts related to the project by searching the #pixburgh tag on our…

Decades before Lawrenceville became synonymous with microbreweries and artisanal coffee shops, Joseph Borkowski documented and researched the history of the neighborhood. Borkowski’s interest in the neighborhood was inspired by its…

This post is part of an ongoing series seeking images and documents in connection with the #Pixburgh: A Photographic Experience exhibition opening this fall at the Heinz History Center. Read…

Oh, those tunnels and bridges. Every Pittsburgher knows that the best way to complicate a morning commute or add extra time to your trip home is to factor a tunnel…