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Slag Dump

1952

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Slag Dump
  • Title
  • Slag Dump
  • Creator
  • Richardson, Charles B., 1930-
  • Date
  • 1952
  • Identifier
  • 201310.1952.24.CR
  • Description
  • "When ore is sent through a blast furnace to extract the iron the rocky residue, the slag, is dumped. This dump is in Mifflin Township and serves U.S. Steel’s Duquesne and Edgar Thomson Works." - C. R.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Slag
    Steel industry and trade--Waste disposal
    Railroad trains
  • Geographic Subjects
  • West Mifflin (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Charles Richardson Photographs, 1952-1955
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Charles Richardson 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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