Laboratory and Offices for Structural Shop

1885

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Laboratory and Offices for Structural Shop
  • Title
  • Laboratory and Offices for Structural Shop
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F13.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F13.I01
  • Description
  • Caption on the front reads, “Old Brown Residence. Laboratory and offices for structural shop. Dad on porch – steam shows exhaust from sand baths used in laboratory. Steam went thru coils in sand bed was used to dissolve material for testing analysis – sand bed was 2’6 x 2.” In addition, a caption on the right border of the photograph reads, “It was enclosed in glass. Fumes were very bad. First test was for silicon – then sulphur in boring of pig iron. Nitric acid hydrochloric acids were used to dissolve material for test.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
    Laboratories--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    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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