English: Identifier: greaterpittsburg00port

Title: Greater Pittsburg Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: [Portland, Me., L. H. Nelson company] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: fifth place among the cities of the United States.Within the present city limits there is capital invested in manufacturing to the amount of $200,000,000, and the annualproduct from over 2,000 establishments employing 75,000 hands is estimated to be worth $300,000,000. Greater Pitts-burgh which includes the city of Allegheny produces about one-fourth of the entire output of pig iron in the country,over $3,000,000 worth of manufactured glass and 500,000 pounds of copper goods. During recent years the city has been awakened to its possibilities in artistic development, and as a result, fine streets,splendid boulevards, unrivalled parks, and other manifestations of an enlightened civic pride have placed the erstwhileSmoky City among the ranks of the beautiful municipalities of the country. : m.t published by L. H. NELSON COMPANY, Portland. Maine. PROPRIETORS OF NELSONS INTERNATIONAL SERIES OF SOUVENIR BOOKS COPR.. 1905, 190B, 1BOS. 1910. BY L. H. NELSON CO., PORTLAND. ME. 78TH THOUSAND.

Text Appearing After Image: PITTSBURGH FROM TOP OF LAKE ERIE RAILROAD STATION SOUTH SIDEA view showing the Smithfield Street Bridge over the Monongahela, the river bank, and the modern architecture of the business section of the city. The Pitts-burgh skyscrapers rise from twelve to twenty-four stories in height and are not surpassed for excellence of construction by any in the country. The building atthe right with tower is the immense Allegheny County Court House. CCLA256255

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