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The Pittsburgh Point Marker
Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Caption: The Pittsburgh Point Marker
Additional Description: Lower Painting
Pittsburgh in 1849
by Tappan and Bradford, after a print by B.F. Smith, Jr.
The Pittsburgh Point before the rise of heavy industry. Riverboats line the Monongahela wharf, and warehouses and banks are developing on nearby streets. The rivers are full of rafts, keelboats, barges, and steamboats. In the foreground cattle represent the rich farmlands, and a Conestoga Wagon suggests the generations of pioneers who passed through Pittsburgh.
Submitted: October 29, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p290412
File Size: 0.307 Megabytes

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