Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1849 as viewed
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1849 as viewed from Coal Hill. Situated at the confluence of the Allegheny (left) and Monongahela Rivers (right), where their waters become the Ohio River. Its earliest industries were shipbuilding and glassmaking. By 1849 there were cotton mills, and a rapidly expanding iron and steel production
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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