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Pittsburgh Steel Company album

Creation: circa 1905
 Collection
Accession: 2006-208

Abstract

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

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

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