Crucible Steel Company Blast Furnace

1952

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Crucible Steel Company Blast Furnace
  • Title
  • Crucible Steel Company Blast Furnace
  • Creator
  • Don Parker
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F31.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F31.I04
  • Description
  • Description of the photograph reads, “This $7,000,000 blast furnace at Crucible Steel Company of America’s Midland, Pa., Works was put into operation in December, 1952. Rising to a height of an 18-story office building, the furnace will produce 1,300 tons of molten iron a day. The massive ironmaker is completely automatic and electronically controlled with the exception of one operation, that of tapping the flow of the molten metal.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Blast-furnaces--Pennsylvania--Midland.
    Crucible Steel Company (Midland, Pa.)
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Midland.
  • 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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