The Point: Block House

Engraving_of_the_Block_House.


CAPTION: The Old Redoubt, as It Appears To-day [1888].
NOTES: Engraving. From a photograph by E. W. Histed.
From Allegheny County: Its Early History and Subsequent Development. 
Published under the Auspices of the Allegheny County Centennial Committee, 
1888, page 43.
Additional views of the Block House show it
as it may have looked in 1764;
picturesquely when used as a dwelling;
teeming with children;
and under water in 1907.
PHOTOGRAPHER:   
DATE: 1888.
HEADING: 
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From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department,
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 

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