Category: Downtown

  • The Fort Pitt Blockhouse

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    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

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    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.

     

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