5,007 Pittsburgh Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

A poster comes to life. "Up until my visit here I thought it was just ...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, re...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a suitcase. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A starter calling buses at the Greyhound bus...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A Greyhound driver getting his shoes shined ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers in the waiting room of the Greyho...

Public domain photograph of bus station, bus terminal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bal Balchunas, a Lithuanian baker

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bird in flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men. Office of War Information Photogra...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Massachusetts being held in the Lithuanian c...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man listening. Office of War Information ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lithuanian-Americans attending Memorial Day ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A crowd of people standing around a fountain. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division, Barberton, Ohi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division. General view o...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division. Storage tanks ...

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division. General view o...

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Gas Co. IV

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - Skyline view of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the early 1980s. Title, date, s... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... More

Stair detail, U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the U.S. General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Arc... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nursery of vast fortunes--Smithfield St., lo...

Jones and Laughlin steel mills, Pittsburgh, Pa

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10414, 10413, 10412, 10411, 10410. "G 8152 L," "G 8153 LC," "G 8154 C," "G 8155 RC" and "G 8156 R" on left to right negatives respectively.... More

Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pa - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10306, 10305, 10304, 10303, 10302. "G 6039 L," "G 6040 LC," "G 6041 C," "G 6042 RC," and "G 6043 R" on left to right negatives respectively... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...

Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More

Monongahela Incline Plane, Connecting North side of Grandview Avenue a...

Significance: The first constructed and oldest passenger incline plane in Pittsburgh, this system retains the 1882 safety brake and bull wheel and 1935 electrical system including drive motors, operating brakes... More

Monongahela Incline Plane, Connecting North side of Grandview Avenue a...

Significance: The first constructed and oldest passenger incline plane in Pittsburgh, this system retains the 1882 safety brake and bull wheel and 1935 electrical system including drive motors, operating brakes... More

Monongahela Incline Plane, Connecting North side of Grandview Avenue a...

Significance: The first constructed and oldest passenger incline plane in Pittsburgh, this system retains the 1882 safety brake and bull wheel and 1935 electrical system including drive motors, operating brakes... More

14-16 Eloise Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: 14-16 Eloise Street is representative of the brick row housing and duplexes that were built in this section of Allegheny after a d... More

14-16 Eloise Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: 14-16 Eloise Street is representative of the brick row housing and duplexes that were built in this section of Allegheny after a d... More

1222 Reddour Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: This house is significant as a local example of a middle-class urban residence dating from the last quarter of the 19th century. I... More

Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth & Twenty-fifth ...

Written data includes sketches & photocopies of maps. Significance: The structure is a strange mixture of relatively new and daring structural concepts and a hopelessly outdated exterior shell. It is a "mule" w... More

North Side Market, Federal & East Ohio Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Point Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at Point of Pittsburgh (No. 9...

See also HAER PA-5 for additional documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Survey number: HABS PA-604 Building/structure dates: 1925-1927 Initial Construction

Structures on Old National Trail, Bridge, U.S. Route 40, Pittsburgh, A...

Survey number: HABS PA-6643 Public domain photograph of a bridge, arch over water, river, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

11 Pernod Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: 11 Pernod Street is representative of the smaller scale brick rowhouses that were constructed in this section of Allegheny between... More

John F. Singer House, 1318 Singer Place, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,...

Significance: One of the finest and most elaborate Pittsburgh mansions built in the Gothic Revival style. Survey number: HABS PA-433 Building/structure dates: ca. 1869 Initial Construction

John F. Singer House, 1318 Singer Place, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,...

Significance: One of the finest and most elaborate Pittsburgh mansions built in the Gothic Revival style. Survey number: HABS PA-433 Building/structure dates: ca. 1869 Initial Construction

John F. Singer House, 1318 Singer Place, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,...

Significance: One of the finest and most elaborate Pittsburgh mansions built in the Gothic Revival style. Survey number: HABS PA-433 Building/structure dates: ca. 1869 Initial Construction

1207 Federal Street (House), Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps & floor plans. Significance: 1207 Federal Street is representative of the commercial buildings that fronted on this section of Federal Street in Allegheny by t... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Open Hearth Plant, Donner Av...

Significance: The open hearth steelmaking plant of the Monessen Works was built in 1908. Pittsburgh Steel installed eight 95 ton, basic open hearth furnaces in a 1,055 x 280 feet steel-frame, metal-clad buildi... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Davis Avenue Bridge, Spanning Woods Run Avenue at Davis Avenue, Pittsb...

Significance: The bridge is a cantilevered structure constructed for transportation, social, and municipal purposes. Constructed before Allegheny City was consolidated into greater Pittsburgh, the bridge repres... More

Davis Avenue Bridge, Spanning Woods Run Avenue at Davis Avenue, Pittsb...

Significance: The bridge is a cantilevered structure constructed for transportation, social, and municipal purposes. Constructed before Allegheny City was consolidated into greater Pittsburgh, the bridge repres... More

Pythian Temple, 2007-2013 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,...

Significance: The New Granada Theater was designed in 1927 by Louis A. Bellinger, Pittsburgh's first prominent African-American architect, for a local African-American Knights of Pythias lodge. Conversion into... More

The Pittsburg[h] natl. league base ball club

Photograph shows the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team posed for a team portrait. 29849 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright May 16, 1896, by Geo. F. Bain, Allegheny, PA.

Washington Crossing Bridge, Spanning Allegheny River at Fortieth Stree...

See also HABS PA-1179 for additional documentation. Includes drawings. Significance: The bridge is an outstanding example of a long-span metal deck arch bridge. Its unique architectural details, forged in a suc... More

Washington Crossing Bridge, Spanning Allegheny River at Fortieth Stree...

See also HABS PA-1179 for additional documentation. Includes drawings. Significance: The bridge is an outstanding example of a long-span metal deck arch bridge. Its unique architectural details, forged in a suc... More

The battle of Pittsburgh, Tenn. April 7th, 1862

General Ulysses S. Grant leading a charge on the Rebels at Pittsburgh, Tennessee. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0476.

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Works, Morgan Billet Mi...

Survey number: HAER PA-48 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh Works, Morgan Billet Mi...

Survey number: HAER PA-48 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

[Ed Abbaticchio, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

U.S. Allegheny Arsenal, Entrance Gates, Thirty-ninth Street, Pittsburg...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS PA-8-1-J

Eva Harter House, 2557 Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Coun...

Survey number: HABS PA-622 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva Harter House, 2557 Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Coun...

Survey number: HABS PA-622 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva Harter House, 2557 Beechwood Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Coun...

Survey number: HABS PA-622 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beau Brummell Club, 954 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ...

Survey number: HABS PA-625 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James Miller House, Pittsburgh vicinity, Library, Allegheny County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-34 Survey number: HABS PA-410 Building/structure dates: ca. 1804- ca. 1808 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1808 Subsequent Work

Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad, South Hills Junction, Pittsburgh...

Significance: This former 40-inch, narrow-guage railroad was purchased in 1871 by the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad Company. In 1909, Pittsburgh Railways Company, lessee, began electrifying and convertin... More

Fort Pitt Blockhouse, 25 Penn Avenue, Point State Historic Park, Pitts...

Significance: The structure was erected on the west side of the ramparts of Fort Pitt as greater protection against Indian attacks. It is the only known remaining 18th century building in the Pittsburgh vicinit... More

U.S. Allegheny Arsenal, Armory, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS PA-8-1-F

Brady Street Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Allegheny...

See also HAER PA-3 for additional documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-180 Survey number: HABS PA-614 Building/structure dates: 189... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, South Baggage Passage & Canopy, 1101 Li...

Written data includes photocopies of photographs. Significance: The South Baggage Passage and Canopy are functional appendages of the historically and architecturally significant Pennsylvania Railroad Station, ... More

U.S. Allegheny Arsenal, Commandants' Quarters, Fortieth Street, Pittsb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Ed Abbaticchio, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Ohio River Bridge, Spanning Ohio Rive...

Significance: The bridge is significant for its relatively long and heavy cantilever truss, planned shortly before the Quebec cantilever bridge collapse of 1907. Rather than select a different design, the railr... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 3, Donner ...

Significance: No. 3 Blast Furnace, also known as "Jane," was blown-in in 1948. This furnace was considerably larger than either Blast Furnace No. 1 or No. 2, with a hearth diameter of 28 feet, and 18 tuyeres. ... More

Davis Island Dam & Lock No. 1, Ohio River, mile 4.7 on right bank, Pit...

Includes index to related materials in National Archives RG 77. Significance: As the first lock and dam on the Ohio River, the Davis Island Lock and Dam was an experimental project testing the skills of the 19t... More

ALCOA Building, 425 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Significance: The ALCOA building was built from 1951-1953 as the corporate headquarters for the Aluminum Company of America. It is an internationally known example for a post-World War II International Style co... More

[Chas. Phillippe/George Gibson, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card port...

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Center photo caption: "Donlin out at first." Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

English-Oliver House, 845 Ridge Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ...

Significance: Originally built in 1871-74, the house was remodeled in 1892-93 after the designs of the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. One of the finest of the Pittsburgh millionaires'' mansions, i... More

Charles Brewer House, 1131 Western Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-73 Survey number: HABS PA-41 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1861- before. 1925 Subsequent Work

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Significance: Henry J. Heinz revolutionized the food processing industry and built his business into a global conglomerate from this site beginning in 1888. The industrial complex documented here represents the... More

Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. No. 15, General view of Johnstown loo...

U17845 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. Printed on mount at bottom: Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. Loss from 10,000 to 12,000 lives. Typed on label attached at top... More

Pittsburgh & Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel, Between Fifth & S...

Significance: The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel was a section of the Pittsburgh rail link between the Pennsylvania Railroad's western terminus and the eastern terminus of the Steubenvill... More

Pittsburgh & Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel, Between Fifth & S...

Significance: The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel was a section of the Pittsburgh rail link between the Pennsylvania Railroad's western terminus and the eastern terminus of the Steubenvill... More

Westlake Public School, 900 Lorenz Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Count...

Photo caption pages include a site plan. Written data includes floor plans & photocopies of location maps & site plans. Survey number: HABS PA-6640 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction Building... More