Iron ore and coke cars, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Iron ore and coke cars, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A.
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Rail cars loaded with iron ore and coke are the subject here, a detail that ties this stereograph to the heavy freight traffic that fed Pittsburgh's steel mills in the early 1900s. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued the card around 1905 as one of many stereoscopic views sold for parlor viewers, which paired two nearly identical exposures to create a sense of depth. Pittsburgh's rivers, rail yards and furnaces made it the center of American iron and steel production at the time, and the coke ovens that turned coal into the fuel for blast furnaces were a major part of that work. The scene offers a useful record of the industrial freight system behind the city's growth.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers & publishers, c1905. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H66428 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6348. |
| Subjects | Railroad freight cars--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910. Coke industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910. Iron industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,254 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188133 |
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