View of the City of Pittsburgh in 1817

Object number86.1.278

Publisher Pittsburgh Lithography Company

Date1877

Credit LineHeinz History Center Collection

DescriptionChromolithograph. The image shows a view of The Point in Pittsburgh from a vantage point upstream on the Ohio River. At the center is the city with buildings amid a setting of the rolling hills. The point is bordered by a earthen enbankment. In the foreground a flatboat and a sailboat approach the town.Dimensions24.75 x 29.9999 in. (62.9 x 76.2 cm)
MarksBelow image left: Entered according to Act of Congress.....

Below image right: Lithographed by Pitttsburgh Litho.Co.

Below image center: VIEW OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH IN 1817./Taken from a sketch drawn by Mrs. E.C. Gibson, Wife of Jas. Gibson, Esq. of the Philad'a Bar, while on her Wedding Tour in 1817.
Historical NotesThis image is taken from a sketch drawn by Emma C. Gibson while on her wedding tour in 1817. She was the wife of Jas. Gibson, Esq. of the Philadelphia Bar.

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