Details
Title [Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.] [graphic].
Publisher Pittsburgh
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.25 x 6.75 in.) (stereograph format)
Description View showing the oldest U.S. business school, established by Peter Duff in 1840, on Fifth Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View also shows adjoining businesses, including: Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Allegheny Insurance Company, and the Morning Post stationery and printing shop. The Morning Post building is adorned with a playbill advertising a minstrel show. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred by content.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Ivan Noble, 1971.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Allegheny Insurance Company.
Duff's Mercantile College.
Morning Post Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Insurance Company.
Business schools -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Minstrel shows -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Education [7992.F.15]
Accession number 7992.F.15