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Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Foundry

1893

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Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Foundry
  • Title
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Foundry
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F12.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F12.I01
  • Description
  • 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 the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh). Two blast furnaces, called Eliza furnaces, and some beehive coke ovens were built on this site. These furnaces, the second blast furnaces built in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, began operation in 1860 and allowed the Jones & Laughlin companies to meet the increasing demands of the American Civil War and railroads for iron products. A fourth blast furnace was added to the Eliza Works and the older stacks were either rebuilt or replaced, so that, by 1901, there were four modern blast furnaces at the Eliza Works. The Eliza Works, employing over 5,000 people at one time, closed in 1977 and the enormous blast furnaces at the site were razed in the mid-1980s. The foundry pictured was located at the Eliza Works in the 1890s.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Foundries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Foundry workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • 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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