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Soldiers & Sailors National Military Museum & Memorial The Soldiers & Sailors Museum is a Greco-Roman style hall occupying the crest of a hill where 5th Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard meet in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two sculptures completed by Frederick C. Hibbard in 1922 stand on either side of the entrance. One is a Civil War soldier at rest with his rifle and the other is a Civil War sailor on the lookout with his naval telescope. I visited this landmark at 9:00 a.m. on a clear, sunny day in December. This time of year the morning sun is almost level with the building's facade casting even light on all of the museum's stone and metal details. The photographs in this gallery were made using pinhole cameras: the Zero 2000 pinhole camera and a collection of handmade, cylindrical, and box-like pinhole cameras. The curved film planes in the handmade cameras created ultra-wide angles of view. The photographs presented here were made from scanned paper negatives, contact print positives, and scanned black and white 6x9cm negatives. --Allen C. Benson
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