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Description: | Exterior of the Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddling Department, with workers posing outside the building. The men are standing near railroad tracks, and a few ... |
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Description: | Smelting Department of the Bay View Rolling Mills. |
Date: | 09 09 1912 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a man standing near railroad cars which appear to be loaded with coal and ore inside IHC's McCormick Works railroad yard. Other men are wo... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Iron mines with railroad tracks three miles south of North Freedom, in La Rue. One the left are buildings with three large smokestacks; on the right is mac... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the coke ovens at the Lehigh Coal and Iron Company. A group of men are posing in the foreground. |
Date: | 10 29 1968 |
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Description: | Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot... |
Date: | 05 07 1969 |
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Description: | Marine gear unit ready to be shipped. This particular gear unit, a component of a Great Lakes Ore Carrier was purchased by General Motors-Electro Motive Di... |
Date: | 07 24 1971 |
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Description: | Slewing drive that was purchased by the Dravo Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Slewing Drive-2 parts-(1) 19 feet 5 inches O.D. x 6 1/2 inch wide ... |
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Description: | Elevated view of industrial buildings identified as smelting furnaces. A railroad train and railroad track runs the length of the foreground of the image a... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings. |
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Description: | An interior 5-ton cab-operated Pawling and Harnischfeger crane running along railroad siding to unload scrap and steel for manufacture. The stencil on the ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An early Pawling and Harnischfeger cab-operated crane with dial operated controllers and a 5-ton type "O" bridge with a type "A" trolley. The operator is i... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | An International D-500 truck owned by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company is parked in the foreground of an industrial area near railroad tracks. In the bac... |
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Description: | By 1883, anthracite furnaces were heavy competition for companies such as Cornwall Furnace. Caption reads: "Old Anthracite Ore Roasters, Cornwall, PA." |
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Description: | Peviously Sharon Steel Company, Carnegie Steel began operations in 1902. Here, the front gate is shown. |
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Description: | Lukens Steel Company was founded in 1810, and was the largest employer in Chester County in the 1960s, with over 10,000 workers. |
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Description: | 36 McKinley Furnace was constructed by Theodore Powers and A. L. Crawford in 1848. Caption reads: "McKinley Furnace, New Castle, PA." |
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Description: | The industrial city of Ensley, Alabama constructed four 200-ton blast furnaces which were in operation by April, 1889, the largest such grouping in the wor... |
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Description: | National Tin Plate Company was founded by William Donner in May 1897 and became the Monessen, PA's first employer. Caption reads: "Tin Mill, Monessen, PA. ... |
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Description: | Northport Mining and Smelting Company was incorporated in June 1898, becoming Northport Smelting and Refining Company in July 1901. The plant complex is s... |
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