Against All Odds: Chevalier Jackson, Physician and Painter
Posted by Louis Waddell on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Against All Odds: Chevalier Jackson, Physician and Painter After he had observed his seventieth birthday, Dr. Chevalier Jackson described downtown Pittsburgh of 1865, his birthplace, as dark, gloomy, and dirty. His recollections of 1888, the year he established a medical practice in an old tailor shop on Sixth Avenue, were particularly vivid. All winter long we lived as in a dark, cold, damp cellar. The sun was visible, on an average, four days in a...read more