Item #z05875 The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores. The Pittsburgh Press.
The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores
The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores
The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores
The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores

The Pittsburgh Press Route List of Independent Retail Grocery Stores

Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Press, ca. 1939. Paperback. ca. 1939. 80 cardstock sheets, 9.25 x 4.5 inches, in envelope. 77 cards with maps showing markets and grocers where the Pittsburgh Press was to be stocked, intended for those doing routes. "This Route List of Retail Grocery Stores in Metropolitan Pittsburgh has been prepared... to supply a complete geographical sequence of the independent grocery outlets in the area... The 77 Route Cards are arranged so that the area can be covered with a minimum of back-tracking by following the cards in numerical order..." Each card features a map on the recto of a given area of Pittsburgh, with the area name, list of grocers, and tract information on the verso. A title card, index, and inventory of stores round out the 80 cards. Also present are three maps, one large, two small, showing the overall Pittsburgh region with each area numbered with their Route. The larger map also includes census data culled from 1930, as well as additional figures assembled from various sources in 1932 and '34, map dated 1939. All cards are in near fine condition, in a good+ envelope with some surface wear, but still intact and doing its job. Included is a duplicate envelope should the first ever give out. The Pittsburgh Press was a major afternoon paper, one of many competing city newspapers published prior to the First World War. At one time, the Press was the second largest newspaper in Pennsylvania, behind only the Philadelphia Inquirer. The paper published under the name The Pittsburg Press, and referred to the city and its sports teams as "Pittsburg" until August 1921, when the letter H was added. Near Fine. Item #z05875

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