Pittsburgh Steel Company album
Creation: circa 1905Abstract
The Pittsburgh Steel Company manufactured steel products. Early products included wire, barbed wire, nails, wire fence, and pipe. This item is an album containing photographs of birds-eye-views of the Monessen plant, an exterior of the office building, views in boiler houses, open hearth furnaces, soaking pits, power plants, engines, and an electric power plant.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1905
Creator
- Pittsburgh Steel Company (Organization)
Extent
1 item(s)
General Physical Description
1 album : boards covered in cloth ; 13 x 16 in. (closed) Containing 35 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Historical Note
The Pittsburgh Steel Company was incorporated in 1901 and operated plants in Monessen and Allenport, Pennsylvania. It's main office was in Pittsburgh. Early products included wire, barbed wire, nails, wire fence, and pipe.
Scope and Content
This item is an album containing photographs of birds-eye-views of the Monessen plant, an exterior of the office building, views in boiler houses, open hearth furnaces, soaking pits, power plants, engines, and an electric power plant. Products shown include billets, rounds for seamless tubes, wire rods, nails (in kegs), barbed wire, staples, and wire fencing. There are views of nail-making machines, and electric welding fence machines. There are also loose insurance maps of Pittsburgh Steel Company plant, 1902 and 1903 in pocket in back of album. All items in the collection are captioned as listed below.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Pittsburgh Steel Company album
- Date:
- 2015
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
