Pittsburgh City Archives

Exciting news! Today we’re launching a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to browse and research online: …tsburgharchives.access.preservica.com (1/6)

From our @PghArchives. An “Out of this World” @starwars themed City Independence Day Celebration from 1978. May the fourth be with you!

How it started. ➡️ How it was. ➡️ How it’s going. After a lengthy labor of love by our Department of Public Works & @CitiParks, the Henry W. Oliver Bath House has reopened on the South Side!

Scenes from our Archives at City Hall.

Get in the zone…for our new collection of Zoning Board of Adjustment Minutes! 🙌 We've digitized the first 50 years of ZBA minutes and cases from 1923 to 1973. Visit our website below to access this exciting and useful new collection! …tsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/…

New digital collection available! We've digitized Urban Redevelopment Authority Board Meeting Minutes from 1946 to 2017. Access the collection in our Digital Collections website below: bit.ly/3UB6G9d

@SheDidWhatPGH Hi! Great question. It’s back at the Block House. According to the Pittsburgh Press (Sept 30, 1952), it was returned in 1898.

@PghArchives any idea on where this hella historic c 1769 piece of rock is?

New collection available! The @PLANPGH Library contains 244 boxes of reports spanning 100 years. Early transpo plans? Got it. Research on Fort Pitt? Yes please. Mid-century redevelopment reports? Up to our necks. Search the complete container list: bit.ly/41ESyyI

Many files include photos of the project before, during & after construction. We’ll digitize many of them this year and upload them to our new Digital Collections website: bit.ly/3GXVwon Contact archives@pittsburghpa.gov to schedule research visits. 4/4

The records offer a unique way to explore public improvements and their impact on citizens. The collection may be useful to scholars researching eminent domain, and to genealogists searching for property details through court transcripts, street plans and photos (3/4)

New collection available! The Board of Viewers Case Files contain reports, photographs and related docs on over 8,000 street improvements over the course of a century, from 1870 to 1970. A full index to the cases can be found in our catalog here: bit.ly/3NIX8Gv 1/4

Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responding to a fire at a vacant warehouse on Liberty Ave in the Strip District on Nov. 6, 1965. The warehouse stretched multiple blocks, from 22nd to 27th Streets. See the full film in our new Digital Collections website: bit.ly/46EIAhC

Digitization of selected content has been supported in part by grant funding from @NHPRC and the @PHMC. The Records Management Division will post updates on its social media pages when new digital collections are made available, so stay tuned! pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases… (6/6)

City Planning Commission meeting minutes from 1918 to 2001, covering important developments in Pittsburgh’s planning and zoning history: bit.ly/3QP8gCk (5/6)

Exciting news! Today we’re launching a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to browse and research online: …tsburgharchives.access.preservica.com (1/6)

@PGHAdam No but it is the oldest river-crossing bridge in the city!

"That might be the oldest bridge in the world... the Smithfield Street Bridge." - overheard on the street this evening. Any truth to this fact @PghArchives ? 😉

@AmyKapp @Pittsburgh Hi Amy, contact us via this email: archives@pittsburghpa.gov

@PghArchives @Pittsburgh @PghArchives I am the editor of Rails to Trails magazine and would love to gain permission to run this photo and the one of his biking group cycling in the next issue of our magazine--he was a Board Member in the 1990s. Who should I contact? amy@railstotrails.org

Franco Harris and his Italian Army riding bikes through Squirrel Hill in April 1973.