Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

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Creator Richardson, Henry Hobson -- Architect -- American -- Male
Title Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail
Spatial Coverage Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Latitude 40.4384
Longitude -79.9961
Description Exterior, Bridge of Sighs. At one time used to transport prisoners from the Allegheny County Courthouse to the Jail.
Work Dates 1883-88
Date Earliest 1883
Century 19
Style Period Richardsonian Romanesque
Culture American
Technique Bearing masonry
Material Cut stone
Subject Public buildings -- Courthouses; Institutional buildings -- Correctional institutions -- Jails; Transportation structures -- Bridges (built works) -- Footbridges -- Skybridges
Image Source Undocumented source (original photography or duplicate of original photography).
Rights Unknown copyright holder.
Contributing Institution University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No. P0305, ARCH-19443
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s64m980p
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 91409
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64m980p
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