Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.). Transit CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Report of Transit Commissioner to the Honorable Mayor and the City Council of the City of Pittsburgh
Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.). Transit CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster, The
Author: Mary Jane Kuffner HirtPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467142719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"On Christmas Eve 1917, an overcrowded, out-of-control streetcar exited the Mount Washington tunnel, crashing into pedestrians. Twenty-three were killed and more than eighty injured in the worst transit incident in Pittsburgh history. The crash scene on Carson Street was chaotic as physicians turned the railway offices into a makeshift hospital and bystanders frantically sought to remove the injured and strewn bodies from the wreckage. Most of the victims, many women and children, were from the close-knit neighborhoods of Knoxville, Beltzhoover and Mount Oliver. In the aftermath, public outrage over the tragedy led to criminal prosecution, civil suits and the bankruptcy of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, which operated the service. Author Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt explores the tragic history of the Mount Washington transit tunnel disaster"--Back cover.
The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assaying
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
In the Watches of the Night
Author: Peter C. BaldwinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226036022
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.
Proceedings of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania
Author: Engineers' Society of Western PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assaying
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Appended to v. 12 are 15 articles on "methods for the analysis of ores, &c.," 101 p.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of AlleghanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Urban Grocery Gap
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on HungerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
