Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S.A. – Historic Print
![Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S.A., c1905. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1ec14467250b-L.webp)
(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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Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S.A. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S.A.
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Pittsburgh's steel mills were among the largest industrial sites in the country around 1905, and this stereograph zooms in on the enormous converters at work. Bessemer-style converters were tilting steel vessels in which blasts of air burned impurities out of molten pig iron, turning it into steel in a matter of minutes. The stereo format, with two nearly identical images viewed through a hand-held viewer, was a popular way for early twentieth-century audiences to experience distant industries, and the card gives a sense of the scale that a single flat photograph could not. Pittsburgh's mills drew visitors and photographers alike, making it one of the city's signature subjects in this period.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Gelatin silver prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | No. 6541. |
| Subjects | Steel industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,293 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164851 |
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