Pittsburgh in 1816 / Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter

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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Preface

Table of Contents

The New City

Impressions of Early Travelers

United States Census

Business and Industries

Traveling Eastward

Taverns

Steamboats and River Traffic

Ferries and Bridges

The Newspapers

Churches

Schools

Libraries

The New Books of 1816

The Theatre

The Morals Efficiency Society of 1816

Fourth of July, 1816

Police

Eagle Fire Company

Water-Supply

Banks

Post-Office

The Suburbs

Courts

County Elections

The State Legislature

Slavery

Advertisements from the Newspapers of 1816

1816

PITTSBURGH IN 1817

From a sketch made by Mrs. E. C. Gibson, wife of James Gibson of the Philadelphia bar, while on their wedding tour.

PITTSBURGH
IN 1816

Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the
Granting of the City Charter

Covered wagon pulled by six horses

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PITTSBURGH
CARNEGIE LIBRARY
1916

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