13 1886 photos of "Woodside" - Residence of Richard S. Waring - at Forbes & Halket, Pittsburgh, including 10 cyanotypes
Photos measure 7.5 x 4.5 inches, with 10 cyanotypes and three photos mounted on cabinet card stock, all annotated in pencil on the versos and dated 1886. Woodside sat at the corner of Forbes Ave. and Halket St. in Oakland, near or on the site of the present day Magee Hospital, with acreage that apparently dipped down toward the Panther Hollow bottomlands. Richard S. Waring (d. 1904) was a prominent Pittsburgh citizen, for years the chair of the local chapter of the Republic Party and an oil company executive who then founded the Standard Underground Cable Company in 1882, which became one of the largest companies in Pittsburgh and the largest such company in the United States. The photos show the homestead and the woods after which the home was named (Woodside). Condition varies: many of the cyanotypes show some coffee-colored stains, and two of the three other photos show abrasions and loss, but several are in very good condition and are identified on the verso. Waring's son Tracy D. Waring took the photos and possibly also is the one who identifies each. An extra photo, of a reservoir along the Allegheny (likely the one in Aspinwall) also by Waring is also included. Good. Item #H15522
Price: $200.00