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American Iron Works

1875

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American Iron Works
  • Title
  • American Iron Works
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F10.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F10.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “J&L (then American Iron Works of Jones & Laughlins) about 1875, from Flem’s Views of Old Pittsburgh.” In 1850 two German ironmasters, Bernard and John Lauth, formed a partnership to establish puddling and heating furnaces in Brownstown, now part of the South Side in Pittsburgh. They named the mill American Iron Works. At their site, one and one-half acres between Carson Street and the Monongahela River, they produced about seven tons a day during one shift. They subsequently established a partnership with Benjamin Franklin Jones In 1859 Jones selected a site directly across the river from Brownstown to build two blast furnaces called the Eliza furnaces and beehive coke ovens to produce the pig iron for the puddling furnaces. James Laughlin became a limited partner and later the firm of Jones and Lauth expired to be replaced by Jones and Laughlin. The etching shown in photograph is from the 1880s. A Pittsburgh-New Orleans packet boat can be seen heading downriver from the plant.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • American Iron Works (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
  • 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
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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