Interior of the Foundry Department

1918-02-18

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Interior of the Foundry Department
  • Title
  • Interior of the Foundry Department
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B006.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B006.I06
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company’s Foundry Department was one of the largest in the United States during the early 1900s. This department specialized in the manufacture of the iron, steel, and bronze castings need for the large-scale products Mesta produced. The department itself was 80 feet wide by 1200 feet long, with 60 foot wide aisles on either side of the main gangway. The large piece of machinery pictured is a Smith-Chicago mixer manufactured by the T.L. Smith Company.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.).Foundry Department.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
    Foundries--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
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