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New Soaking Pits at Clairton Works

1950/1960

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New Soaking Pits at Clairton Works
  • Title
  • New Soaking Pits at Clairton Works
  • Creator
  • Associated Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F04.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F04.I03
  • Description
  • Description of the photograph reads, “New soaking pits used to bring silicon steel ingots up to slab rolling temperature at U. S. Steel’s Clairton Works are now in operation. These pits are important units in the new modernizing equipment plant installed for the production of silicon steel ingots and slabs. Silicon steel is used in the manufacture of power transformers and electrical equipment.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • United States Steel Corporation.Clairton Works.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Clairton.
  • 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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