Hump Cut

June 3, 1912

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Hump Cut
  • Title
  • Hump Cut
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • June 3, 1912
  • Identifier
  • 715.12F.CP
  • Description
  • 40-ton shovel in the hump cut at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Grant Street. Behind the shovel, the Union Savings Bank is visible housed inside the Frick Building. The Frick Building was built in 1902 next to a building owned by Andrew Carnegie; it is rumored that the two men feuded after splitting as business partners and so Frick had his building built taller in order to cast Carnegie's in constant shadow. At the time of its construction, Henry Clay Frick's personal shower on the nineteenth floor of the Frick Building was the highest shower in use.
  • Extent
  • 5 x 7 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Commercial buildings
    Excavation
    Blue collar workers
    Steam shovels
    Pedestrians
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Downtown (Pittsburgh, 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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