WINE & SPIRIT, Pittsburgh

Lovers posing for wedding pictures at the Gates of Hell. The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia

Barmaid and customer at O'Brien's, Pittsburgh, December, 2020. For many in the Quaker State, a visit to the neighborhood tavern eased the anxiety associated with a pandemic that killed more than twenty million people in less than three years.

"just Peachy!" Pittsburgh

Father, daughter, and the devil. Pittsburgh

Acrisure Stadium, December 25, 2024

Sports fans gathering on Christmas Day to celebrate the clash of two mighty teams.

Eat'n Park restaurant, Pittsburgh

Portrait of a woman with her dog, Pittsburgh

Portrait of John Whittington down on the farm, New Freeport

A losing ticket, Pittsburgh

Portrait of a woman at Merante Bros. Italian Market in Uptown, Pittsburgh (muralist: Jeremy Raymer)

Portrait of a man at the Western Penitentiary

Numbered graves are the sole remains of Dixmont Hospital for the Insane. In 1862 the Western Pennsylvania Hospital's Department of the Insane opened after lobbying by social reformer Dorothea Dix. One hundred and twenty-two years and three name changes later, the Dixmont State Hospital closed. Following demolition, a landslide thwarted plans to construct a shopping center at the site.

Pat's Market and Ni's Wok, Merchant Street , Ambridge

Basilon, Merchant Street, Ambridge

Les Girls, Merchant Street, Ambridge

Dominion, Merchant Street, Ambridge

Creekside Springs Water, Merchant Street, Ambridge

Helene's, Merchant Street Ambridge

Tropic Rays, Merchant Street, Ambridge

Disused building, West Aliquippa

The Donora Smog Museum. On the eve of All Saints' Day, 1948, rain cleared the smog from Donora. Days earlier during an atmospheric temperature inversion, hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide, and other emissions from the Donora Zinc Works and the American Steel and Wire plant formed a toxic smog which sickened thousands in Donora and other Monongahela Valley towns. Twenty died immediately. In the following months and years an unknown number died of cancer, and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. United States Steel, owner of the plants, argued successfully that the tragedy was an "act of God" for which they were not responsible.