Eliza Furnace Department

1908

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Eliza Furnace Department
  • Title
  • Eliza Furnace Department
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B004.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B004.F06.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Eliza Furnace Dept. Pix shows #1 and #2. #2 has old type top rigging. Flue dust behind stoves coming from old Boiler House #1 stack during slip in #2 furnace. Building with boom on roof is old boiler shop.” In July 1859 Laughlin & Company, later to become Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, acquired land on the north side of the Monongahela River opposite Brownstown (currently part of the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh). Two blast furnaces, called Eliza furnaces, and some beehive coke ovens were built on this site. In 1904 the fifth blast furnace was built at the Eliza Works, and the annual capacity of the six stacks reached 1,035,000 tons of metal. In 1977 the Eliza Works were closed and in the mid-1980s the blast furnaces were demolished.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Soho Works.Eliza Furnace.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Blast furnaces--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Air Pollution--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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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