Foreword 
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HE Officers and Directors of the First National Bank 
at Pittsburgh, after issuing for some years the series of 
booklets under the general title of “The Story of Pitts- 
burgh,” desire to express their gratification at the reception 
of these publications. They have been received with pleasure 
and read with deep interest by persons familiar and by per- 
sons heretofore unfamiliar with Pittsburgh’s importance. 
Those familiar with certain manufactures and products of the 
city have been pleased to learn of other important interests 
in which this city excels; and those familiar with many 
details of known businesses, but quite unfamiliar with other 
important efforts of the City’s progressive residents, have 
been made aware of the amazing reaches made by its business 
and professional men in these lines not generally known. 
The result has been to vastly increase the general knowl- 
edge, both at home and in distant localities, of the important 
position which Pittsburgh occupies. This city is recognized as 
“The Workshop of the World,” but its efforts are not solely 
directed to the production of manufactured goods which go to 
all portions of the earth. It was long ago called “The Iron 
City,” but such a designation now would be far too narrow to 
apply appropriately to its activities.