History of Pittsburgh/reinvention 1973%e2%80%93present

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“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
—J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

“The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)