Army Inspectors chat at a meeting during their inspection of the McKeesport Works

1944-07-10

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Army Inspectors chat at a meeting during their inspection of the McKeesport Works

Title
Army Inspectors chat at a meeting during their inspection of the McKeesport Works
Identifier
MSP33.B004.F10.I07
Source Identifier
MSP33.B004.F10.I07
Description
Description of the photograph reads, “Front row left to right – Major General Levin H. Campbell, Jr., chief of ordnance; Lieut. Col. Robert C. Downie, district chief at Pittsburgh; H. E. Lewis, standing at extreme left chats with one of the industrialists seated at meeting in plant at McKeesport.” These military officials were part of an inspection tour at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s McKeesport Works facility. The McKeesport Works, previously a tin plate plant owned by McKeesport Tin Plate Company, was acquired by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation in 1940 on a temporary basis for use in producing shells and bombs for the war effort. The McKeesport Works, the primary facility for munitions production at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, housed one of the largest shell production lines in the United States.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.McKeesport Works.
Campbell, Levin H., Major General.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
Lewis, H. E.
Downie, Robert C., Lieutenant Colonel.
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
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