"Pittsburgh Recollections", Gateway Center T Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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N 40° 26.472 W 080° 00.258
17T E 584443 N 4477203
Tiled painting by Romare Bearden installed in 1984 in a subway station
Waymark Code: WM4YP6
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/14/2008
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60-foot by 13-foot mural painted on 780 tiles. The artist was paid $90,000. A recent assessment valued the mural at $15 million.
From left to right, it displays the evolutionary history of the city of Pitsburgh, with the french & indian wars, the fort at the point of intersection of three rivers, the first industries, coal, glass, steel.
Newspaper story on the mural: (
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