Pennsylvania • Universities and Colleges | October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows Duquesne University in 1933 along the bluff above the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. The main building in the foreground is known as “Old Main.” Duquesne University is run by the Spiritan order of priests who were... View Full Postcard →
City Streets • Pennsylvania • Victorian Buildings and Homes | June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows Main Street in Ralston, Pennsylvania in 1900. This is a quaint view of a time when the roads where not paved and wood frame houses with front porches lined the streets. A couple is out in... View Full Postcard →
Pennsylvania • Victorian Buildings and Homes | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard picture was taken in 1911 of the Edgeworth Club in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. There were three sites for The Edgeworth Club in Sewickley. This old postcard shows the second location, used for several years after the first site... View Full Postcard →
Bridges • Lakes and Rivers • Parks • Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment
This 1910 vintage postcard shows a couple boating across a lake by moonlight. The lake is Panther Hollow Lake in Schenley Park which borders Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens of Pittsburgh. A very romantic setting for the couple in the... View Full Postcard →
Parks • Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows the Pittsburgh Zoo in 1910 on a particularly bright sunny day. The Pittsburgh Zoo opened in June, 1989 on the present site in Highland Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River north of... View Full Postcard →
City Streets • Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early 1940′s. At the time of this postcard, The Roosevelt was a grand hotel that many visitors traveling to Pittsburgh would stay in. Today it is the... View Full Postcard →
Bridges • Lakes and Rivers • Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows downtown Pittsburgh By Night in 1931. It shows a very interesting view of Pittsburgh at night across the Monongahela river from the summit on the south shore of Pittsburgh’s river, “The Mon”. The bridge is the... View Full Postcard →
City Streets • Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment
This beautiful vintage postcard from 1900, shows Downtown Pittsburgh with the corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street during a busy day. One can see the people in Victorian dress along the sidewalks, with the Pittsburgh Trolley Cars moving through... View Full Postcard →
Bridges • Lakes and Rivers • Pennsylvania • Ships and Boats | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows a view of the rivers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1931 at what is today Point Park, where the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River all meet to form a triangle of land. In... View Full Postcard →
Bridges • Lakes and Rivers • Pennsylvania • Ships and Boats | Leave a Comment
This vintage postcard shows a view of the rivers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the late 1800s at what is today Point Park, where the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River all meet to form a triangle of... View Full Postcard →