The top layer of this work has been cut from a 1902 pictoral map of Pittsburgh by Thaddeus Mortimer. The layer underneath is primarily comprised of book covers from playwright August Wilson’s do play “Pittsburgh cycle”, with some additional film posters and novels set in Pittsburgh. The famous sporting moment “The immaculate reception” one of the most famous plays in American football history that occurred in 1972 at the Three rivers stadium in Pittsburgh between the Steelers and Raiders is depicted also. The bottom layer of the work depicts the Great Fire of Pittsburgh in 1845 as painted by William Coventry. The small gold star inside the tip where the Allegheny and Monogahela rivers combine to create the Ohio river, depicts the original site where French star fortress fort Duquesne existed.
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