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Pittsburgh, PA 15208
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The Archives Service Center contains audio recordings and visual images dating from the 1860s through the present day. This material is in the form of negatives, prints, slides, film, video, DVDs, standard audiocassettes, CDs and MP3 files. The collections document Pittsburgh regional history, people, organizations, and industry.
Visual Images
Over 700,000 photographic images support the manuscript collections of the archives. These collections include images documenting Pittsburgh’s industrial past, local groups and organizations, and photographs of prominent residents. Many of the photographic collections in the archives are also featured online in our digital collections, such as:
- Aerial Photographs of Pittsburgh
- Allegheny Observatory Photographs
- Bruce Drisbach - American Steel & Wire Company Photograph Collection
- CONSOL Energy Mining Archives Photographs
- Darlington Family Photographs
- Edward J. Shourek Photographs
- Harold Corsini Photograph Collection
- Irene Kaufman Settlement Photographs
- James R. Cox Photographs
- John Gates Collection
- Ken Kobus Photograph Collection
- Kingsley Association Photographs
- Paul Slantis Photograph Collection
- Pittsburgh City Photographer
- Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Photographs
- Pittsburgh Prints from the Collection of Wesley Pickard
- Pittsburgh Railways Company
- Pittsburgh Speech & Society Project
- Rust Engineering Company Photographs
- Smoke Control Lantern Slides
- Spencer Family Photograph Albums
- UE News Photograph Collection
- Union Arcade Building Photographs
- Union Switch & Signal Strike Photographs
- University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
- Urban League of Pittsburgh Photographs
- William J. Gaughan Photographs
- William Penn Hotel Building Photographs
Audio/Video Collections
Thousands of hours of 16mm film and video are included in our collections. These range from local news film to industrial footage to documentary footage. A few of our collections include:
- KDKA: Pitt Parade; Eyewitness News, Sunday Business Page
- Steffi Domike Papers including her films, “The River Ran Red” and “Women of Steel”
- University of Pittsburgh Archives Moving Images Collection
- University of Pittsburgh Archives Audio Recordings Collection
- WQED: Newsroom, The Editors, Three Mile Island Videocassette Collection
Oral History Collections
The Archives has conducted and acquired a variety of oral history collections with a local genesis and focus. These stories of immigrants, labor leaders, and community leaders lend a first hand account of the lives of some of Pittsburgh’s most important residents. The collections provide access to Pittsburghers in their own words. The Archives Service Center features over 1,400 interviews from collections such as:
- Black Sport in Pittsburgh
- Ethnic Fraternal Organizations Oral History Project
- National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Oral History Project
- Pittsburgh Renaissance Project: The Stanton Belfour Oral History Collection
- Pittsburgh Speech & Society Project
- Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh
- State and Local Government Oral History Collection
Flickr
A selection of images from the Pittsburgh City Photographer collection are also available on Flickr, the photo sharing website. We invite you to look at these images and add comments or tags to help identify people, places or events. We welcome your comments.