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Some of the images on display. The Miniature Railroad & Village train exhibition at Carnegie Science Center recently opened a new display entitled "Yinzburgh: An Exibition of Photographic Images from Melting Pot Pittsburgh." The photographic presentation features images of Pittsburghers from the late 1800s to the 1930s, and is a collaboration with Photo Antiquities Museum of Photographic History.

The exhibition is a collection of enlarged reproductions that are arranged in 12 window bays positioned outside of the Miniature Railroad. "Yinzburgh" also features two visually interactive photo collages. In Find Your Relatives, visitors scan unidentified photos of Pittsburghers in hopes of finding distant family members. In Be a Picture Detective, visitors will use their observation skills to answer questions relating to the photographs. In Evey Picture Tells a Story, selected staff at the Carnegie Science Center and Photo Antiquities included a family photograph along with a narrative on their own family's history.

Definition of Yinzburgh:
Yinz-(Irish)(Second person plural) from the greater Pittsburgh dialect, plural of 'you', or 'you ones'. It is equivalent to y'all' of the southern US. Its origin is Irish, and came into common use with the immigration of the Scotch/Irish people to western Pennsylvania.
Burgh-(German)-City or town.