Ever wonder what it would be like to be a student at Chatham during the 1800s or travel back in time to walk through downtown Pittsburgh? Well now you can! Come down memory lane and view images from the The Arthur G. Smith Collection, hosted on the Chatham University Archives Flickr page.
Chapel and the Original Dilworth Hall. View from the bottom of Chapel Hill, c. 1952, Arthur G. Smith Collection, Chatham University Archives
With help from undergraduate intern, Blair Abraham, over 200 slides from the Smith Collection were digitized this semester. Arthur Smith was a professor in Chatham’s history department from 1963-1993 and author of the popular local history title, Pittsburgh Then and Now, first published in 1990. Many of the more modern images available in the Archives Flickr collection were photographed by Smith himself. Subjects include major Pittsburgh skyscrapers, campus buildings and landscapes, and other examples of local architecture.