Blooming Mill at Jones & Laughlin

1885

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Blooming Mill at Jones & Laughlin
  • Title
  • Blooming Mill at Jones & Laughlin
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F12.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F12.I01
  • Description
  • Construction of the Blooming mill at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation's Second Avenue facility, 1885. The roof was constructed on the ground and subsequently hoisted into place by ropes. Blooming mills or Slabbing mills, prepared the metal by reducing it to blooms, billets, slabs and sheets-bars. The blooms, semi-finished hot rolled products that are rectangular in cross section, were shipped to the finishing mills to be processed further. These mills produced the various shapes, forms and sizes that were sold to customers via the warehouses and offices maintained by Jones & Laughlin in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Saint Louis, and other locations.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.Blooming Mill.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh..
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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