Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pa. – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pa., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pa.
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The Edgar Thomson Works, a steel plant on the Monongahela River at Braddock, Pennsylvania, is shown here as a wide panoramic view, a format the Detroit Publishing Company favored for industrial scenes around 1908. The mill was named for Edgar Thomson, longtime president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was built in 1875 by Andrew Carnegie's steel company, which made it one of the key works of the region's steel industry. Notice how the mill's long rows of buildings and stacks dominate the riverside, a reminder of how completely the steel trade shaped towns like Braddock in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 15585. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--BUSINESS; Industry...--Steel?; Panoramas--1908; Pa.--Braddock; Shelf. Sources checked: www. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131950 |
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