44" Blooming Mill

April 1954

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44" Blooming Mill
  • Title
  • 44" Blooming Mill
  • Date
  • April 1954
  • Identifier
  • 943.45428.GN
  • Description
  • View of a 44" Blooming Mill shaping an ingot into a bloom. Blooms represent an intermediate step in steel production. Ingots, which are the unfinished masses of raw steel, are reheated in soaking pits until they are malleable and then shaped into more manageable pieces of semi-finished steel known as blooms. Blooms could then be finished in the works' Structural Mills or they could be taken to the Schoen Works were they would be turned into wheels and axles. The 44" Blooming Mill was built in 1923.
  • Extent
  • 4 x 5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Steel industry and trade
    Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works. 44 Inch Mill
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Homestead (Pa.)
  • Source
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • 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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