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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

A poster comes to life. Woolslayer introduces his poster-model companions to a crew of open-hearth furnacemen. "We're the fellows who start making those jeeps you army guys bounce around in," one of the men said. All through the tour of the plant, Woolslayer was the subject of mild jibes. Most common: "When ya' leavin' for Hollywood?" Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Woolslayer introduces his poster-model compani...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Braddock, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along M...

Survey number: HAER PA-384-B Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1... More

U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, McKeesport, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along M...

Survey number: HAER PA-380-C Building/structure dates: 1930 Building/structure dates: 1963 Building/structure dates: 1984 Demolished

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Women sweepers in front of ladle into which metal from open-hearth furnace is poured, and which is then transported by crane to molds. Most new women employees are given clear-up jobs to start with in order to accustom them to factory life

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive are fast "getting in the scrap." Steelworker George Woolslayer shows Chief John Evans (left) and Sergeant French Vineyard one of the scrap yards at Allegheny- Ludlum where tons of old metal await loading into open-hearth furnaces. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from U...

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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Open Hearth No. 3, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, West of Minsi Trail Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Open Hearth No. 3,...

Survey number: HAER PA-386-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open-hearth furnace. About 50 per cent scrap steel is used in open-hearth production

Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlu...

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A poster comes to life. A mill train chugs through one of the Allegheny-Ludlum's mill yards, drawing carloads of vital scrap iron and steel which will be shovelled into open-hearth furnaces and remade into alloy. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. A mill train chugs through one of the Alleghen...

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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monon...

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel ... More

A poster comes to life. "Meet the guys who shoot 'em." George Woolslayer introduces a group of open-hearth furnace men to his poster pals, Evans and Vineyard, who are getting a first-hand view of production for war. Although they knew how to shoot guns and drive jeeps before they came to Allegheny-Ludlum, they're seeing for the first time the kind of Americans who make these things: skilled and semi-skilled workers, tireless men who can work for hours in terrific heat. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. "Meet the guys who shoot 'em." George Woolslay...

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U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, McKeesport, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along M...

Survey number: HAER PA-380-C Building/structure dates: 1930 Building/structure dates: 1963 Building/structure dates: 1984 Demolished

A poster comes to life. The men pass the scrap charge for a battery of open-hearth furnaces, piles into small buckets which are emptied into the furnaces by an electrically operated shoveling mechanism. The line of buckets at the left shows what is happening to the auto hubs, axles, and drive shafts which a few months ago were strewn over the countryside in auto graveyards. The bucket-line at the right contains mill waste, which is carefully saved and reused

A poster comes to life. The men pass the scrap charge for a battery of...

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A poster comes to life. Carloads of limestone, iron and steel scrap, collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive, soon to be made into new steel for the tools of war. Steelworker George Woolslayer escorts Sergeant Vineyard (left) and Chief Evans through one of the scrap yards at Allegheny-Ludlum, explaining to the servicemen that these carloads await loading into open-hearth furnaces at the mill. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. Carloads of limestone, iron and steel scrap, c...

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