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Marshalsea Power Plant

November 20, 1908

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Marshalsea Power Plant
  • Title
  • Marshalsea Power Plant
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • November 20, 1908
  • Identifier
  • 715.081115.CP
  • Description
  • A view of the Marshalsea poor farm power plant. The 243 acre campus, known as Marshalsea, opened in 1893. It was renamed Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital at Mayview in 1916 and closed in 2008.
  • Extent
  • 5 x 7 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Hospitals
    Psychiatric hospitals
    Public institutions
    Mental health facilities
    Buildings
    Almshouses
    Marshalsea (Homestead, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Bridgeville (Pa.)
    Homestead (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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