Carrie Furnace Tapping

May 1952

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Carrie Furnace Tapping
  • Title
  • Carrie Furnace Tapping
  • Date
  • May 1952
  • Identifier
  • 943.55228.GN
  • Description
  • View of worker at the Carrie Furnaces tending to molten iron in the process of casting. The Carrie blast furnaces were responsible for smelting basic iron from iron ore and other raw materials. This iron was then transported across the Monongahela river to the open-hearth furnaces of Homestead where it was made into steel.
  • Extent
  • 4 x 5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Blast furnaces
    Steel industry and trade
    Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Rankin Works
    Carrie Furnace (Rankin, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Rankin (Pa.)
  • Source
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Rights Information
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