Views of Pittsburg — a promotional photo booklet issued compliments of the Mortgage Banking Company, 423 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. Gray-blue card stock covers with original cord binding, Art Nouveau embossed title with city skyline vignette. Photography throughout credited to Bragdon, Pitts., Pa. Dated circa 1902–1904 based on content: the pre-1911 “Pittsburg” spelling, the recently completed Schenley Hotel, and the identification of P.C. Knox as Attorney General (served 1901–1904).

Pages include full-page halftone photographic views of Pittsburgh’s most prominent landmarks and personalities of the Gilded Age: a panoramic view from the Point with coal barges and suspension bridges; the residence of Attorney General P.C. Knox; Mount Mercy Academy; fern room interior at Schenley Park Conservatory; Skibo Castle, home of Andrew Carnegie; the Allegheny County Court House; Phipps Conservatory; Riverview Park; river coal barges in atmospheric industrial haze; the Schenley Hotel; and a full interior view of the Mortgage Banking Company’s own offices at 423 Fourth Avenue.

A rare, intact survival from Pittsburgh at the height of its industrial power — steel, coal, Carnegie, and Knox all present in a single 120-year-old artifact.