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Pittsburgh, 1758-2008

Title
Pittsburgh, 1758-2008 / Pittsburgh post-gazette and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Publication
Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., ©2008.

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TextUse in library F159.P643 .P573 2008Off-site

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Additional Authors
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Description
127 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Images of America
Uniform Title
  • Pittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. : 1978)
  • Images of America
Subject
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History > Pictorial works
  • Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
Contents
1. A wilderness fort and early settlement: 1758-1815 -- 2. A city's first steps, then disaster: 1816-1845 -- 3. Pittsburgh rebuilds and expands: 1846-1859 -- 4. The Civil War and the Iron City: 1860-1879 -- 5. The gilded age of industry: 1880-1899 -- 6. A new century, a world war: 1900-1919 -- 7. A skyscraper university grows in Oakland: 1920-1939 -- 8. Another world war and a renaissance: 1940-1959 -- 9. Civil unrest and title teams: 1960-1979 -- 10. Big steel falls, high-tech rises: 1980-2008.
ISBN
  • 9780738563176
  • 073856317X
LCCN
2008926675
OCLC
  • ocn236352271
  • SCSB-9610232
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library