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March 21st, 2007

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01:32 pm - Take me out of these walls
In my "spare time" I am trying to understand the history of Pittsburgh's South Side. There's a family connection to the area, so to speak, but it was also the hub of the steel industry in the city as well as interesting in various other ways.

After some initial trouble finding information I've been finding things in spurts, including:

  • Various pictures of note which have shown up in the Pitt Digital Library.

  • The South Side file in the photo archive at the Carnegie reappeared.

  • A friend of mine told me his photos from when he worked in the steel mill are now at Pitt's Archives Service Center, and they're going to let me come peruse it in a week or so.

  • Google Books actually has government reports scanned. I downloaded one and would pick up a couple more that matter, except, they're blocking it. What. The. F. It's a government document. They're not asserting copyright precluding me from seeing a digital copy of a document from 1950. Obviously you have a mechanism to allow books to be downloaded if they're in the public domain. It's a government document. Fix your metadata and let me have the damn book!



In any case, I'm learning. I wonder if someday this will be fodder to write a book, and if so, who the heck is going to read it?

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From:[info]roach2600
Date:March 21st, 2007 05:50 pm (UTC)
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Can you link to the books we're not allowing you to download? I have someone who works on Books I could ask about it.
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From:[info]mistergrumpy
Date:March 21st, 2007 05:54 pm (UTC)
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This one: 277 ICC (1950)

But the whole series after volume 11 is from the us government printing office, anyway, all 300+ volumes look like they have been scanned, but I can't get but snippets from many of them.
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From:[info]pat_barron
Date:March 21st, 2007 08:39 pm (UTC)
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Have you seen this book? You might like it. Eljay's has several copies available (as of this past Saturday).
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From:[info]mistergrumpy
Date:March 21st, 2007 08:42 pm (UTC)
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Yup. Most images from the Pitt Digital Library complete with the same incorrect captions in at least one case you see on the web site (search for "Bessemers blow"; It's not the Hot Metal Bridge, it's the Union Railroad bridge from Duquesne to Mckeesport looking at National Tube)

I have it anyway :)

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