Wire Mill

1928

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Wire Mill
  • Title
  • Wire Mill
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F06.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F06.I03
  • Description
  • In 1905 Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, desiring to expand in order to broaden the variety of products it manufactured, acquired land at Woodland, Pennsylvania, about twenty miles down river from its Pittsburgh plants. Prior to this, production facilities were only located on opposite sides of the Monongahela River in the City of Pittsburgh. The Aliquippa Works, as it was called, eventually extended for four miles along the Ohio River. During the 1930s, Jones & Laughlin began major product diversification, expanding into wire, tin, plate, welded and seamless pipe, cords, and wire rope. Wire products, as shown in the photograph, included plain, galvanized, barbed wire, nails, staples, and woven wire fence. In 1982 the Rod and Wire Mill was shut down.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Aliquippa Works.Rod and Wire Mill.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Wire--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Barbed wire--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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