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Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill. – Historic Reproduction

Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(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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Illinois Steel Works, South Chicago, Ill.

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Three glass negatives, joined into one wide view, show the Illinois Steel Works at South Chicago with its mills and harbor stretching along the lake shore. The panorama format suits a site this large, since a single frame could take in the furnaces, rail lines and docks that made the works one of the biggest steel operations in the country. The Illinois Steel Company became part of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation in 1901, so the photograph captures the plant at a time of major industrial consolidation. Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American cities and industry, issued the image, and its wide scenes are a useful record of how heavy industry looked around 1900.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesVideodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21255, 21254, 21253. 42" on C negative; "43" on R negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 047011. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSteel industry. Industrial facilities. Harbors.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70630

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