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Bessemer Converter

1953

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Bessemer Converter
  • Title
  • Bessemer Converter
  • Creator
  • Richardson, Charles B., 1930-
  • Date
  • 1953
  • Identifier
  • 201310.1953.01.CR
  • Description
  • "Bessemer converter at the A. M. Byers Company, Ambridge. This technology for extracting iron from the ore was a century old when this photo was taken and this was the only converter still in operation. Its glow lit the valley at night, giving a certain beauty to the area." - C. R.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Bessemer process
    Steel-works
    Buildings
    Iron and steel workers
    Men
    Railroad tracks
    Railroad cars
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Ambridge (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Charles Richardson Photographs, 1952-1955
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Charles Richardson Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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