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Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama – Historic Print

Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, c[1906] — historic photograph
Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, c[1906]. 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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Iron mine, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama

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Red Mountain, the ridge beside Birmingham, Alabama, supplied iron ore for the city's furnaces, and this c. 1906 view shows a mine there with rail tracks running into the workings. Birmingham grew rapidly from the 1870s as a center of iron and steel, drawing on nearby coal, limestone, and ore, and it earned the nickname "Magic City" for its fast rise. The Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American scenes around 1900, made the view on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative. Note the rail lines against the cut face of the hill, a sign of how closely mining and transport depended on each other.

Created / publishedc[1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3628" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019418. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsIron mining. Railroads.United States--Alabama--Birmingham.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan823 × 656 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62821

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