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Pittsburgh
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ISBN: 0531053849 0531055906 Year: 1976 Publisher: New York : New Viewpoints,

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Pitt : the story of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1987
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ISBN: 0822962357 0822979780 Year: 1986 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Pittsburgh : the story of a city, 1750-1865
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ISBN: 0822952165 1306981085 0822971275 Year: 1937 Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Originally published in 1937, [t]hisstandard history of Pittsburgh tells the city's story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion. With wonderful line illustrations by Ward Howe.

Broadcasting the local news : the early years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV
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ISBN: 0271014393 Year: 1995 Publisher: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press

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The Schenley experiment : a social history of Pittsburgh's first public high school
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ISBN: 9780271079776 0271079770 9780271079752 0271079754 9780271078335 0271078332 Year: 2017 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"Traces the history of Schenley High, Pittsburgh's first public high school. Includes 150 original interviews examining issues of class, race, ethnicity, and collaboration, and how these reflect on the history of education in Pittsburgh"--Provided by publisher.

Devastation and renewal : an environmental history of Pittsburgh and its region
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ISBN: 0822958929 9780822958925 0822941562 0822972867 9780822972860 9780822941569 Year: 2003 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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"Today, the steel industry that defined Pittsburgh for over a century is virtually gone. The sky is blue, fish swim in the rivers, and the hillsides are green and lush. The people enjoy access to many large public parks and trails." "In Devastation and Renewal, environmental scholars examine Pittsburgh's process of reclamation, as well as how power was used to cause change or prevent it, and who benefited from environmental initiatives and why. The authors assert that there is still a long road ahead for reclamation and conservation. If a lesson may be taken from history, it is that changes will come along circuitous routes as they have before, often springing from self-interest, and obstructed by battles among competing, civic groups, regional and national government agencies, individuals, and corporations."--Jacket

The shadow of the mills : working-class families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907
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ISBN: 0822954451 9780822954453 Year: 1991 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press,

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The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and the work week was seven days - with every other Sunday for rest.In this major work, S. J. Kleinberg focuses on the private side of industrialization, on how the mills structured the everyday existence of the women, men, and children who lived in their shadows. What did industrialization and urbanization really mean to the people who lived through the these processes? What solutions did they find to the problems of low wages, poor housing, inadequate sanitation, and high mortality rates?Through imaginative use of census data, the records of municipal, charitable, and fraternal organizations, and the voices of workers themselves in local newspapers, Kleinberg builds a detailed picture of the working-class life cycle: marital relationships, the interaction between parents and children, the education and employment prospects of the young, and the lives if the elderly.

Pittsburgh Sports : Stories from the Steel City
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ISBN: 0822972336 0822957736 0822941430 Year: 2000 Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh Sports captures all that and more. With stories from sports fans, historians, and former athletes, Pittsburgh Sports mixes personal experiences with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan--in Pittsburgh, or, by extension, anywhere.A book that can be read cover-to-cover, or in bits and pieces, Pittsburgh Sports includes chapters on the ill-fated Pittsburgh Pipers, who won the American Basketball Association's first championship, then folded four years later; the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays, perennial Negro League powerhouses; Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Jim Kelly, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, and other legends of western Pennsylvania high school football; boxing's illustrious past in the Iron City; football reminiscences by a former Steelers punter; and the ups and downs of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Spencers of Amberson Avenue : a turn-of-the century memoir
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ISBN: 0822971348 0822953560 9780822971344 9780822971344 0822934876 9780822934875 9780822953562 Year: 1984 Publisher: Pittsburgh, [Pennsylvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press,


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A wise extravagance : the founding of the Carnegie International exhibitions, 1895-1901
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ISBN: 0822971720 0822955849 1306641748 9780822971726 0822939258 9780822939252 9780822955849 Year: 1996 Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and a major American philanthropist, sought to bring world-class art and culture to Pittsburgh. This book looks at how the Carnegie International exhibit came into being in 1895, the early exhibitions, the art, artists, and the public reception to it.

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