“The Smokey City, “Hell with the Lid Off”-Pittsburgh at the height of industrialization went by many names that described the pollution that accompanied industrial prosperity.
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| “Pittsburgh, 1927”, Elsie Driggs 1895-1992 Whitney Museum of American Art |
Elsie Driggs spent her childhood in the smoke filled city of Pittsburgh, and the memory of it followed her through her adult years. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1927, Driggs viewed the steel mills below from her boardinghouse window. Driggs told herself, “This shouldn’t be beautiful, but it is.”
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