#PixBurgh
Diane Taylor holds a Pirates pennant outside of Forbes Field during the famous 1960 World Series at which Bill Mazeroski smacked the home run that won the series in Game 7.
Though it looks like a selfie taken in the mirror, photographer Morris Berman snapped this photo of Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw likely holding one of Berman’s cameras.
Brothers Frederick and Thomas Gretton, 1882. The college-educated Welsh immigrants arrived in Pittsburgh in 1881 with their parents and sister. A day after settling into their new quarters on the South Side, father William and his two sons were at J&L Steel interviewing for jobs, and the following day they started to work. Frederick, a chemist, became interested in photography and documented the people and buildings of J&L as well as the surrounding community. (Note – this is the oldest “selfie” in the exhibit.)
Kiddie boats at Kennywood, 1960s.
Balancing on the seesaw at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement playground, Hill District, 1924. Children improvise their own method of playing with a seesaw on the rooftop playground of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement in this image taken just a few years after the playground was opened in 1921.
Interior of a South Side saloon, circa 1900.
In October 1929, Pittsburgh joined with the rest of the country to celebrate Light’s Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb, by illuminating bridges and downtown buildings.
Visitors to the Senator John Heinz History Center can experience life through the lens of Pittsburghers as part of the new major exhibition, “#Pixburgh: A Photographic Experience,” which features an in-depth exploration of the museum’s extensive collection of photographs – including many that have never been displayed to the public.
The photographs reflect a wide variety of subjects and time periods, from turn-of-the-century mugshots to the 1960 World Series, from the 1936 Flood to the Westinghouse Skybus, and from early daguerreotypes to Polaroids, all while exploring Pittsburgh’s cycle of change and renewal.
On display through August, anyone can submit their own #Pixburgh images to potentially be displayed within a special section of the exhibit at www.heinzhistorycenter.org/submit-your-pixburgh-photo.