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Daytime in downtown Pittsburgh photograph, 1944

Permanent ID:
6684
Call number:
V7: 2027
Date:
January 20 1944
Image Description:
Photograph of a smog blanketed Downtown Pittsburg during the day.  From original photo caption: “The clock at right center shows a quarter to noon, January 19, but Pittsburgh, Pa., residents walked in artificially-lighted streets. Trolley motormen and motorists used their headlights and storekeepers switched on their signs when one of the heaviest smogs (smoke and fog) in the city's history blanketed the town. This is the downtown section.”
Address:
616 Liberty Avenue , Pittsburgh
Format:
Photographs
Dimensions:
Width: 23 cm, Height: 17.5 cm (image)
Collection:
Philadelphia Record photograph morgue
Library of Congress Subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.) [info:lc/authorities/names/n79054720]