Winter scene on Carnegie Lake

1950/1965

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Winter scene on Carnegie Lake
  • Title
  • Winter scene on Carnegie Lake
  • Creator
  • Post-Gazette
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F20.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F20.I01
  • Description
  • Edward Manning Bigelow, Pittsburgh’s first parks director, named the lake after his friend Andrew Carnegie, who donated money to develop it. In the early 1870s Lake Carnegie was built as a halfway station for water pumped from the Allegheny River to the reservoir. In its early years, the lake was used for boating, swimming, and even diving. By 1932 the northern part of the lake was converted into a swimming pool. The present-day lake is overgrown with cattails and water lilies and has a depth of only about four feet. Carnegie Lake is still used for a popular fishing program given by the State of Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Highland Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Lake Carnegie.
    Parks--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Ice skating--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • 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
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