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McMillan, 2 June 2000 Black-yellow-black vertical tricolor with
arms on yellow stripe. Pittsburgh is the second largest city in
the state of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, and is located in
the western half of the state where the Monongahela and
Allegheny rivers meet to become the Ohio River. Walter F.
Kawalec III, 9 September 1998 "When Pittsburgh became a city in
1816, officials set out posthaste to obtain an official seal.
This duty was handed to the city recorder, Charles Wilkes Jr.,
who passed it along to a few friends, most notably a theater
personality named John R. Jones. "Jones and contributors chose
the coat of arms of the Chatham family (William Pitt, for whom
Pittsburgh is named, was the First Earl of Chatham) as a basis
for the seal. They removed, as inappropriate for the seal of an
up-and-coming city, a stor