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Cutting Steel Slabs

1942

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Cutting Steel Slabs
  • Title
  • Cutting Steel Slabs
  • Creator
  • Altwater & Brothers Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B008.F02.I10
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B008.F02.I10
  • Description
  • A blow-torch cuts a steel slab at a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation facility. At the Cold Finished Products Department rounds, squares, hexagons, flats, and special shapes were produced. The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s Pittsburgh Works, located in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood, was abandoned in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s the site was razed for redevelopment.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.Cold Finished Products Department.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Blow-torches--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
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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