Pittsburgh: Pernell Printing Shop, 1949. Wraps. 9.5 x 6.25 inches, wraps, good with some waterstains on covers. 32 pp. -- mainly ads, with a history of the club, list of members, patrons, etc. The event took place at the Kay Boys' Club, corner of Wylie Ave. and Green St., in.....
Pittsburgh: Greater Pittsburgh Gospel, Choral Union, Inc., 1954. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, good to very good, some toning, soil, light wear to covers, contents very good. About 30 pp, illustrated. Held at the Macedonia Baptist Church, located at 2225 Bedford Ave. in Pittsburgh, a historical mainly Black church.....
Pasadena: 1980. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear, one of the central pages rumpled. 144 pp., illustrated.
Pittsburgh: 1984. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, stapled sheets, good with some dampstaining and rippling to bottom 2" throughout. About 25 leaves, mainly advertisements for Homewood businesses. Homewood is a historica Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh's East End and is the setting for several of John Edgar Wideman's books.
Pittsburgh: 1937. 20 original photographs in fine condition (slight curve), on paper measuring 9.5 x 6.25 inches; images themselves measure 8 x 6.25 inches and are mainly captioned on black bands in white at the bottom of each, within the plate. Showing Schenley Park (relatively unchanged) in 1937: Westinghouse Memorial.....
Photos are in very good condition (small abrasion to Horne's photo), mounted on thick black stock measuring 14 inches high and with captions in gilt impressed into the mounting sheets. Visually arresting images, of the effects of the March 17-18, 1936 Great St. Patrick's Day Flood, with waters cresting at.....
Each picture is about 4.5 inches wide, light soil, mounted on thick black stock (14 inches tall). Uncommon photos, each captioned in white in the plate. Westinghouse plant was in a river valley and was very susceptible to flooding.
Pittsburgh: Allegeny Preparatory School, 1904. Paperback. 8 x 7 inches, wraps, bound with red cord, very good, 36 unnumbered pages, signed on cover by Jean Thoburn, a junior at the time, and with a few notations by her in pencil. With history of the school, description of it, course guide.....
Pittsburgh: 1913-1914. Paperback. 2 volumes bound together, 8 x 5.5 inches, wraps, 58 & 65 pp, ex-library, no deaccession stamp but we assume legitimately withdrawn. The church was in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh at Bayard and Bellefield streets. The reports give earnings, expenses, reports on construction, classes, membership, programs.....
Pittsburgh: Myers, Shinkles, 1893. 8vo, printed gray wraps, 82 pp, including architectural plans and views of the main buildings of the Dixmont Hospital for the Insane, the report being at least half about that part of the hospital. RARE, no copies of this in OCLC.
Pittsburgh: ca. 1910. No date, ca. 1910, real photo postcard, "Brighton Road, Ben Avon" in white letters on front of card, handwritten note, address, and franking on backside, mild edgewear, toning, overall VG.
Pittsburgh: Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1965. Wraps. 2 items, book and program, both measuring 11 x 8.5 inches, the book is 44 pp, lots of ads, pictures and a complete program of the activites from Nov. 7-14, 1965; good with some toning, soil and abrasions to covers, a few pages with.....
Pittsburgh: 1935. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, stapled sheets, 10 pp. total including covers. Good with some wear, toning, soil. Addressed to Stanley Mayer, who edited "Fantasy" magazine in the 1930s, a literary journal. A lefty newsletter with pro-labor articles, including "Radicals Guide to Periodical Literature" to be found in.....
Pittsburgh: Lincoln Avenue Building and Loan Association, (1886). 12mo (5.5 x 4 inches) wraps, very good, light wear, some tanning. 20 pp. No copies in OCLC. From what we can tell, the association was in operation at least through 1918.
Pittsburgh: Duff's Mercantile College, Ca. 1895-1899. Hardcover. 8 x 5.5 inches, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, light wear, pages beginning to tan. 80 pp, printed in black & red, illustrated, with a history of the college, founded in 1840 (and "nearly sixty years old"), course descriptions, description of.....
Pittsburgh: Ca. 1900. Paperback. 7.6 x 6 inches, stiff cream wraps illustrated in browntone, bound with red string, fine copy. 16 unnumbered pages, colorized frontispiece of a view of downtown Pittsburgh from the South Side, another color plate in orange and black of a blast furnace at night, additional small.....
Double-plate, linen backed, 31 x 23 inches, very good. Shows Point Breeze and parts of Homewood including the Heinz and Westinghouse estates next to each other. Undated but probably 1910s.
Pittsburgh: Shady Side Academy, Ca. 1945. Wraps. 11 x 8.5 inches, pictorial wraps, very good, light general soil to covers. 20 unnumbered pages, illustrated. Undated, but internal evidence suggests 1945. Short history, some of the perks of going, description of the two campuses (one in Fox Chapel and one in.....
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1930. Wraps. Quarto, 10.5 x 7.75 inches, stiff gray pictorial wraps, very good, some soil, darkening and toning to covers, contents very good, ownership stamp of W. S. Johnston on verso of cover, 64 pp, illustrated, discusses the library, music hall, natural history museum, fine arts, hall.....
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. 12.25 x 9.25 inches, very good, light wear and soil. Warhol era but not his graduation year.
Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Catholoic, 1944. Paperback. Separately issued supplement to the March 16, 1944 issue of the Pittsburgh Catholic. Tall folio, 16.5 x 11 inches, wraps, fair to good, covers have soil, tanning and multiple surface abrasions, contents a little foxed but good to very good. 58 pp, illustrated. Very.....
Pittsburgh: 1902. Wraps. 8.5 x 6.25 inches, green wraps, string-tied, very good, light wear and discoloration. 8 pp. program of services at the church, which is located at 320 6th Ave. near Wood St. in downtown Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Tennis Association, 1922. Wraps. 6 x 4 inches, stapled wraps, very good. 11 pp. With list of participating clubs and associations, most of which were located in the east end of Pittsburgh or in the South Hills, plus list of officers and the bylaws. Uncommon.
Pittsburgh: Printed at the Advocate Office, 1840. Disbound, 8 pp, good, some foxing and light wear. The committee that filed the report was comprised of Josiah King, Lewis Peterson, and A. M. Anderson. Worldcat cannot locate any copies in institutions.
Bound volume, now in modern paper wraps with spine label, each annual anywhere from 37 to 75 pp, reports, membership, historical discourses, news, plans, etc. The church occupied a corner of Fourth Avenue and Ross Ave. downtown Pittsburgh in a spot now partly occupied by the City-County Building. It was.....