James Watt

1860/1867

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James Watt
  • Title
  • James Watt
  • Creator
  • Cargo's Photographic Rooms
  • Identifier
  • PSS6.B002.I18
  • Source Identifier
  • PSS6.B002.I18
  • Description
  • James Watt worked for Lyon, Shorb & Company, also known as the Sligo Iron Works of Pittsburgh, as an ex-sheet roller. He is shown here posing in his dress clothes. The 1860-61 Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities lists a James Watt Jr., roller, residing on Carson Street between Second and Third Streets in South Pittsburgh. The Sligo Iron Works was located on the south side of the Monongahela River opposite Pittsburgh’s Market Street. In 1826 the Sligo mill employed 30 men and produced bar, boiler, nail, and sheet iron valued at $99,000 per year. In 1879 the company employed 250 men and possessed 25 puddling furnaces, 10 heating furnaces, eight steam engines with 14 boilers in four separate batteries, and three steam hammers. The mill at this time was known for manufacturing flanged boiler heads and flue holes using specially designed machinery.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Watt, James.
    Lyon, Shorb & Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Lyon, Shorb & Company Photographs, ca. 1863-186, PSS 6, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Lyon, Shorb & Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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