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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: June 20, 2015
Caption: Mala Jaska Marker
Additional Description: (top photo)
Circa 1905 view of the Lutz & Schramm plant at 1412 River Avenue, which was once a rival of the H.J. Heinz Co. Prior to 1901, the buildings were part of Adolph & Julius Groetzinger's La Belle Tannery.

A large number of industrial jobs were within walking distance of Mala Jaska in 1900:
• Processing foods at H.J. Heinz Co. and Lutz & Schramm
• Tending stock yards on Herr's Island or packing meat for Fried & Reineman or the Pittsburgh Provision & Packing Co.
• Producing yarn and sheepskins at the P. McGraw Wool Co.
• Working in the Western Pennsylvania Railroad yards on River Avenue
• Producing steel and iron goods at the Thomas Carlin's Sons Foundry on River Avenue or the Black Diamond or Carnegie steel mills in the nearby Strip District


(center photo)
Terraced garden at home of Frank and Catherine Ribar (1410 E. Ohio Street). The Ribars' parents immigrated from villages near Karlovac. Frank worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad unloading animals at the Herr's Island stockyards.

(bottom photo)
View of E. Ohio Street from Troy Hill steps, showing North Catholic High School students on their way to school in 1966.
Submitted: June 21, 2015, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p312028
File Size: 1.089 Megabytes

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