Collections
H.K. Porter Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Records
Collection contains the records of H.K. Porter Co. for the years 1877-1968. H.K. Porter was a major manufacturer of light locomotives from 1867-1941.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Hans Reichenbach Papers
The Hans Reichenbach Papers comprise published and unpublished manuscripts, lectures, correspondence, photographs, drawings, and related materials from his early student days until his death.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Harold Corsini Photographs
Visual images from the 1940s-1970s show images taken by freelance photographer Corsini for local and national businesses, including US Steel, as well as images from WWII and Southeast Asia and East Africa.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick Business Records
Contains material reflecting the business and financial activities of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) with particular relevance to Pittsburgh and the western Pennsylvania region. Frick kept in frequent correspondence with Andrew Carnegie among many others as noted in the collection material.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Henry F. and Kate B. Hebley Collection of Soviet Lantern Slides
Visual images of largely scenes of everyday street life in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, a major coal mining region of the Soviet Union, taken by Kate and Henry F. Hebley of Mt. Lebanon during their trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) circa 1931.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Henry Marie Brackenridge and Family Papers
Focuses on correspondence concerning Henry Marie Brackenridge's political career, and contains letters from notable politicians of his day, including Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William Henry Harrison.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Herb Ferguson Photographs
Image collection primarily includes photographs taken by Herb Ferguson for the local neighborhood newspaper produced by the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC).
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Herman Mishkin Photograph Collection
This collection of glass photographic negatives captures portraits of several Metropolitan Opera singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The photographs were taken by Herman Mishkin, who was the official photographer of the Metropolitan Opera from 1910 to 1932.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Hervey Allen Papers
Hervey Allen was known as an American poet, essayist, and novelist. His paternal grandfather, Edward Jay Allen, was a Civil War Colonel and influential Pittsburgh figure who traveled west over the Oregon Trail to survey and establish United States land claim in 1852 in what is now Washington and Oregon.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Historic Pittsburgh Book Collection
The Historic Pittsburgh Book Collection comprises published material from the 19th and 20th centuries that document Pittsburgh in the printed word.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Homer S. Brown Papers
Homer S. Brown became a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association in 1923. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1934 and became the first African-American appointed to the Pittsburgh Board of Education (1943), and elected (1949) as Allegheny County Judge. He served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Allegheny County from 1956 to 1975. This digital collection consists of select speeches and articles written by Brown.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Homestead Album Oral History Project Records
The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted in 1976 and 1977 by the Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, part of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The interviews document the experience of individuals of varied ethnicities who have lived in the Homestead area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Hotel Schenley Register
The Hotel Schenley register documents the names and residence of the many visitors who lodged at the hotel in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland during a four month period in 1908.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Andrew Watson Papers
Consists of the business papers and correspondence of Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Andrew Watson regarding various properties in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh