Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Steel Mill Scene

1949/1955

Title
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Steel Mill Scene
Creator
Associated Photographers
Identifier
MSP285.B013.F29.I06
Source Identifier
MSP285.B013.F29.I06
Description
In July 1859 Laughlin & Company, later to become Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, acquired land on the north side of the Monongahela River opposite Brownstown (currently part of the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh). Two blast furnaces, called Eliza furnaces, and some beehive coke ovens were built on this site. In 1904 the fifth blast furnace was built at the Eliza Works, and the annual capacity of the six stacks reached 1,035,000 tons of metal. In 1977 the Eliza Works were closed and in the mid-1980s the blast furnaces were demolished.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corporation.South Side Works.
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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