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Exterior of Mesta Machine Company

1908-11-03

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Exterior of Mesta Machine Company
  • Title
  • Exterior of Mesta Machine Company
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B038.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B038.I01
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company plant covered over twenty acres in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. Some of the buildings that occupied the site included machine shops, forge shops, a pattern shop, an iron foundry, a steel and brass foundry, and laboratories. The Mesta Machine Company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment during the first half of the twentieth century. Some of their products included, gas and steam blowing engines for blast furnaces, forging presses, shears, cut and machine-molded gears, and various types of rolls used in rolling mills. In 1983 WHEMCO acquired the assets of Mesta Machine Company.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.).Foundry.
    Mesta Machine Company.Machine Shop.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company 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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