(Wilmerding, PA): 1990. 10 postcards, reproduced from early 1900s originals, issued in commemoration of the 1990 centennial of the founding of Wilmerding (home of the original Westinghouse plant). Wilmerding is a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh PA: Duquesne Commandery No. 72, (1992). First printing. Paperback. 8vo, stapled wraps, very good, minor stains and soil to covers. 79 pp, illustrated. A rare history from 1891 to 1992.
Pittsburgh: 1985-1999. Wraps. 11 souvenir programs, all in magazine format, 11 x 8.5 inches, softcover, ranging from 40 to 75 pp. each, lots of ads, guide to the entrants, history of the grand prix, descriptions of cars and their drivers and much else. All very rare and from the collection.....
Pittsburgh: 1942-1947. 9.25 x 6 inches, very good, some signed on the cover and with occasional enthusiastic noters inside from Ida Mary Lewis (1924-2011), one of the first African-American librarians in Allegheny County.
Pittsburgh: Smithfield Church, 1932. Wraps. 9.25 x 6 inches, softcover in patterned glassine dust jacket, fine. 92 pp, illustrated.
18 postcards (one might be a trade card), with postmarks ranging from 1905 to 1913, some without postmarks. We have Washington Monument in Allegheny, Pittsburg by Night, Sixth Ave. Looking East, Sixth Street and Penn under Four Feet of Water, 2 real photo postcards of three men, one of them.....
Allegheny (Pittsburgh) PA: Common Council of Allegheny, 1846. 10 x 8 sheet, printed on recto only. Ordinance forbids people from buying goods at the Allegheny City Market House with the intent to resell elsewhere in Allegheny. "Supplement to Ordinance no. 12" states that "no person shall, within the bounds of.....
Pittsburgh: Duff's Merchants' College, (1854). Wraps. 9 x 5.75 inches, softcover, very good, light soil and wear to covers, minor loss to bottom half inch of spine, contents very good. 24 pp. contains remarks on the different departments of the institution remarks on Pittsburgh as a healthy locality, terms and.....
Pittsburgh and elsewhere: 1860s-1910s. Hardcover. 8.5 x 6.5 inches, photo album in poor condition with rear cover lacking, no spine, front cover present but detached. Photos mainly very good. With approximately 30 CDV sized photos and 10 cabinet photos. Some photos are identified. Probably owned by Martha T. Noble (1814-1898.....
Pittsburgh: Duff's Mercantile College, 1871. Wraps. Approx. 9 x 6 inches, publisher's green softcover wraps, good with some wear, soil and waterstains to covers, faint rippling and signs of water staining to contents, but not badly so. 32 pp, with folding woodcut of the exterior of the Duff building, downtown.....
Allegheny: Perry photo studio, Ca. 1880s. 6.5 x 4.25 inches, very good, light surface soil, one small ink mark on front. With handwritten note on back: "My Mommie Died, when David and I were babys [sic]. This was our housekeeper she was very good to us."
Pittsburgh: Duff's Mercantile College, (1890). Wraps. 10.5 x 8 inches, softcover, fair, light soil and wear to covers, moderate dampstain to lower outer corner of rear cover and decreasingly so to the last 8 leaves of the text, but also some dampstaining to lower inner corner, which caused not only.....
Homestead, PA: M. P. & J. R. Schooley at the Local News Office, (1890). First Edition. Wraps. 12mo, 6.75 x 4.75 inches in modern plain dark blue wraps, good copy with some taping to the title page, the next page after that and the last page, looks like some library.....
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one is of the Duquesne Heights neighborhood a bit south of the Trimont and that part of Mt. Washington. VG, light wear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one of the Mount Oliver and Knoxville neighborhoods up above the South Side. VG, light wear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one is Beltzhoover and parts of Mt. Washington, around Boggs Ave. VG, light edgwear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one of the South Side, E. Carson St. from 10th to 17th Streets, showing Muriel and Bingham Streets and Bedford Sq. VG, light wear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one of the South Side, E. Carson St. from 17th to 22nd Street, including the streets above Carson - nearer the river, including Sidney, Wharton and Clifton Streets. VG, light wear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one of the South Side from 31st to 36th St. on either side of Carson St. VG, light wear.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one is of the South Side from 4th St. to 10th St. nearer the river. VG, light wear, minor chipping and wear to left and right edges.
Map from "Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 5...24th to 36th Wards" -- this one is of the West End neighborhood, West Carson, Temperanceville Station, Steuben St, Main St. Some wear including shallow chipping to left and right edges and bit of wear to bottom edge near center fold.....
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1896. `. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penn'a' - single page map in color, very good, light wear and soil.
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1896. `. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penn'a' - double page map in color, good with some old crayon notes and marks, light soil.
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1896. `. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penn'a' - double page map in color, very good, light wear and soil, some light old crayon marks, light corner loss.
Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1896. `. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penn'a' - double page map in color, very good, light wear and soil, some old crayon notes.