Levy, Eugene D.

Abstract Dr. David Demarest was a professor in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University for nearly 35 years. During this time, Demarest’s personal and professional interests influenced one another, leading to a career marked by work on a variety of topics including the working-class history of the Pittsburgh region, industrial archaeology, and social justice issues. This collection is composed of materials related to Demarest’s work on these subjects, and its mixed-media nature...

Overview Dr. Eugene Levy was a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University from 1965-1999. This collection reflects Dr. Levy’s career-long interest in the documentation and analysis of the history of the industrial landscape of the greater-Pittsburgh region. Often working with his colleague and close friend David Demarest, Levy shot photographs of mill towns outside Pittsburgh such as Homestead, Duquesne, McKeesport, and Monongahela. The collection contains photographs of the Homestead Works...