Antique circa 1915 photograph, groundbreaking ceremony for Langley Laboratory (current location of Hunt Library) at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1915. The Carnegie Institute of Technology Band plays for the flag raising. Note steam trains on track on hillside. The building on the hilltop at right is the old Mellon Mansion, torn down in the 1940s.

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SOURCE: ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE

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Size: 5978px × 4199px
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Photo credit: © Old Paper Studios / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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