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Removing ingot slab from furnace, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pa. – Historic Print

Removing ingot slab from furnace, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pa., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Removing ingot slab from furnace, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pa., [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Removing ingot slab from furnace, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pa.

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Few places in American industry carry as much weight as the Homestead Steel Works on the Monongahela River, and this 8 by 10 inch glass negative records the mill's heavy work of pulling a steel slab from a furnace. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photographs of American landscapes, cities and industry, made the image sometime between 1900 and 1910. By then Homestead was part of Carnegie Steel and had become a symbol of both the nation's industrial might and its labor conflict, especially after the bitter 1892 strike. The dark interior and the figures dwarfed by machinery show the scale and danger of the work.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4988" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070685. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSteel industry. Furnaces. Interiors.United States--Pennsylvania--Homestead.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72250

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