The Dollar Bank has never been the biggest or richest bank in the city, but the lions that flank the entrance certainly inspire confidence.
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Your Money Is Safe
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Falling Up
Looking up into the rotunda of the Union Trust Building gives one the uncanny sensation of falling up into the vortex.
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Night and Day
It is the civic duty of every Pittsburgher who entertains out-of-town visitors to take them up to Mount Washington and show off the skyline. These two pictures were taken a few years ago, but the overall impression changes little.
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Downtown from West Park
The skyline of downtown Pittsburgh seen from West Park. The bare branches, jagged buildings, and high contrast of a cloudy winter day make the picture, taken with an old and slightly leaky folding camera, look like a steel engraving.
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Fun with Granite
The Granite Building on Sixth Avenue is an exuberant riot of textures. Whatever ornamentation could be done with granite, it has been done here.
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The Fort Pitt Blockhouse
The only building left from the original Fort Pitt, and the only pre-Revolutionary structure left in downtown Pittsburgh, is this modest little blockhouse, which somehow survived a century and a half of being surrounded by warehouses before Point State Park grew around it. These photographs were taken with an Ansco Speedex folding camera.
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Day and Night
Two views from the northern end of the Sixth Street Bridge, now officially the Roberto Clemente Bridge. This is one of the famous Three Sisters; Pittsburgh is the only place in the world, it seems, where you can find three identical suspension bridges side by side. The pictures were taken to test a fifty-year-old Argus C4, which apparently passed the test.
