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Steel industry and trade -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh: steel & smoke print: Hoppé print

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-522
Scope and content

This is am image of Pittsburgh, PA at the height of its fame as the Steel City of the United States. Item depicts tall smokestacks belch smoke into an overcast sky and the roofs of the factory buildings look like the frozen waves of some black ocean.

Dates: 1927

United States Steel Corporation flow charts showing how steel is made

 Collection
Identifier: GB04-28
Scope and content

This is second printing a chart that originally appeared in 1953. The imagery is simple and easy-to-follow. The chart could be folded down to 8"x10" and is perforated on one edge for inserting into a ring-binder suggesting that it was designed for use in schools.

Dates: 1958