Making bessemer steel at Pittsburgh - the converters at work / drawn by Charles Graham. – Vintage 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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Making bessemer steel at Pittsburgh - the converters at work / drawn by Charles Graham.
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Charles Graham's wood engraving shows the Bessemer converters at work in Pittsburgh, the steelmaking process that by the 1880s had transformed the region into the center of American iron and steel production. Published in Harper's Weekly on April 10, 1886, across two pages, the scene captures the furnaces and the laborers who worked around them, when molten pig iron was blown with air to burn out impurities. Such illustrations gave readers far from the mills a view of an industry that was reshaping cities along the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers.
| Created / published | 1886 April 10. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Wood engravings 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1886 April 10, pp. 232-233. |
| Subjects | Steel industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1880-1890. Furnaces--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1880-1890. Laborers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,236 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184769 |
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