Plant Visit from an Army Group

March 1954

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Plant Visit from an Army Group
  • Title
  • Plant Visit from an Army Group
  • Date
  • March 1954
  • Identifier
  • 943.35417.GN
  • Description
  • A view of two army visitors shielding their faces as a steel plate is sprayed after rolling. This photograph, taken shortly after the end of the Korean war, illustrates the importance of steel production to the defense industry. Steel plates used for ship and tank armor had been produced at the Homestead works for decades.
  • Extent
  • 8 x 10 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Steel industry and trade
    Homestead Steel Works
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Homestead (Pa.)
  • Source
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • 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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