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View looking east showing Battery Stack

1950-09-07

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View looking east showing Battery Stack
  • Title
  • View looking east showing Battery Stack
  • Creator
  • Goll Studio
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F01.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F01.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “View of stack for one of the four coke plant by-product batteries at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company’s Aliquippa Works in Aliquippa, PA.” By-products recovered from the production of coke included coke oven gas, tar, ammonium sulphate, light oils, sodium phenolate, and crude pyridine. The Aliquippa Works, located about twenty-five miles northwest of Pittsburgh, produced 3 million tons of raw steel in its prime and was the largest industrial plant in Beaver County, employing about 14, 950 men and women at its peak. The by-products plant was shut down permanently in 1985 and in April and May of 1990, the last of the blast furnaces at the Aliquippa Works were razed.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Aliquippa Works.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Chimneys--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation 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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