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The History Center includes the Library & Archives, which preserves hundreds of thousands of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, atlases, newspapers, films and recordings documenting over 250 years of life in the region; and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, a museum-within-a-museum documenting Pittsburgh's extensive sports legacy.
The museum also features detailed information on Fort Pitt's role during the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of Pittsburgh. The museum was established and operated by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission until its closure in August 2009 from state budget cuts.
The Heinz History Center seen from the Strip District in Pittsburgh in July 2007. In 1879, a club called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was founded. In 1884, leaders changed the organization's name to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (HSWP); it has been operating continuously since then and is the Pittsburgh region's oldest cultural organization.
PITTSBURGH ― USA Today readers voted The Sen. John Heinz Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh as the No. 1 history museum in America and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh as the No. 2 children's ...
Butterfinger was withdrawn from the market in Germany in 1999, because of consumer rejection when it was one of the first products to be identified as containing genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) from corn. [6] [7] Butterfinger sales ended after a successful campaign by Greenpeace pushed Nestlé to remove the product from German ...
The left wing of the building houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and the Center for American Music which contains the University of Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Collection and archive that includes manuscripts, copies of over 200 of his musical compositions, examples of recordings, songsters, broadside, programs, books, various ...
It comprises two separately designated City of Pittsburgh historic districts: the Oakland Civic Center Historic District [2] consisting of publicly and privately owned institutional buildings, and the adjacent Schenley Farms Historic District [1] consisting mainly of a planned residential development of the early 20th Century.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building (known locally as the Castle [3] or Library Hall [4]) in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from 1890. It was listed on the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1975, [5] National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]