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Salvage & Storage Company

November 26, 1913

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Salvage & Storage Company
  • Title
  • Salvage & Storage Company
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • November 26, 1913
  • Identifier
  • 715.133764.CP
  • Description
  • A view of Salvage & Storage Company with many broken windows caused by the 33rd Street Sewer Explosion. A sign out front reads "Good news for you Mrs. Housewife: Our Resident Wagons will Collect your Old Newspapers, Magazines, Rags, Rubber, Etc. - and give you in exchange valuable household necessities." A sign on the other end of the building has a similar message addressed to "Mr. Businessman."
  • Extent
  • 6.5 x 8.5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Underground utility lines
    Public works
    Commercial buildings
    Horse-drawn vehicles
    Pedestrians
    Streets
    33rd Street Sewer (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Explosion, 1913
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Lower Lawrenceville (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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