Exterior view of the Mesta Plant

1918-03-25

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Exterior view of the Mesta Plant
  • Title
  • Exterior view of the Mesta Plant
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B013.I10
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B013.I10
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics, in the early twentieth century. Pig iron and steel scraps from Mesta’s various development departments, including the Open-Hearth Steel Department and the Iron Foundry were stored in this metal store yard. The 85-foot by 1200-foot storage area was serviced by four Gantry Electric Traveling Cranes, which carried materials to and from the store yard with electric magnets. A portion of the yard was used for storing scraps used for creating iron castings and rolls. The second half of the store yard was home to the iron and steel deposits the Open-Hearth Steel Department used to make castings, rolls, and forging ingots.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
    West Homestead (Pa.)
    Construction--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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