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Cleaning Plant at Duquesne Works

1953-07-16

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Cleaning Plant at Duquesne Works
  • Title
  • Cleaning Plant at Duquesne Works
  • Creator
  • Associated Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F19.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F19.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Duquesne, PA., July 16 - Last cloud of fume and dust billows from a ferromanganese blast furnace at Duquesne (Pa.) Works of U. S. Steel, minutes before start-up of a new cleaning plant – first ever built to eliminate these man made clouds from the atmosphere.” The installation of cleaning plants such as these were part of an ongoing effort to clean up the notoriously smoky atmosphere in and around Pittsburgh.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • United States Steel Corporation.Duquesne Works.
    Smoke prevention--Pennsylvania--Duquesne.
    Air Pollution--Pennsylvania--Duquesne.
  • 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
  • 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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