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 Pittsburgh,”
 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 persons
 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 knowledge,
 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.