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Future site of the United State Steel Building

1960/1965

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Future site of the United State Steel Building
  • Title
  • Future site of the United State Steel Building
  • Creator
  • Shrader Studios, Inc.
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F39.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F39.I05
  • Description
  • Behind the three small buildings near the center is the intersection of 6th Avenue and Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh. In the background (left) is the William Penn Hotel and to the hotel’s right are the H.K. Poster Building and the First Lutheran Church on Grant Street. The entire area in the center of the photo, including the three buildings, was to later become the site of the United States Steel Building, later named the USX Tower, Pittsburgh’s tallest Skyscraper.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • First Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Grant Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Sixth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    H.K. Poster Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    William Penn Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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