Dravo Research Center

1935/1980

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Dravo Research Center
  • Title
  • Dravo Research Center
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F04.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F04.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of this photograph reads, “The new Dravo Research Center contains facilities to serve the varied need of the company’s diversified operations.” Dravo Corporation, founded in 1891 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, originally sold power plant equipment and expanded into erection services, which in 1898 led the company into the general construction field. Later, realizing that towboats and barges would be needed to transport these building supplies, the company entered the shipbuilding and river transportation business. The research center, located at Neville Island near Pittsburgh, housed chemical, metallurgical, minerals, water and waste treatment, and other laboratories. In addition, pilot ore and minerals processing equipment, a concrete testing lab, and other physical testing facilities were located there.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Dravo Corporation.Research Center.
    Commercial buildings.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development 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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