Steam Engine at Jones & Laughlin

1887

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Steam Engine at Jones & Laughlin
  • Title
  • Steam Engine at Jones & Laughlin
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F14.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F14.I04
  • Description
  • Caption on the front of the photograph reads, “Dinky engine hauled buggy used in loading steel sometimes billets from the blooming mill to the heating furnace.” A dinky is a small steam engine locomotive. The brakeman, or hook-ons, on the dinky trains frequently had hands or fingers smashed between cars.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Steam-engines--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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