Concrete Foundation for Blowing Engine and Electric Power Houses

1907-07-29

View this item

Concrete Foundation for Blowing Engine and Electric Power Houses
  • Title
  • Concrete Foundation for Blowing Engine and Electric Power Houses
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F07.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B003.F07.I02
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Bill Shinn [sic] at left as carpenter foreman Mr. Goetz (Goetes), Chief engineer, and crew ‘checking bolts to make sure there were no mistakes before concreting.’ Shinn started with J&L at Aliquippa March 6, 1907.” In 1905 Jones & Laughlin Steel Company purchased land in Woodlawn, Pennsylvania, located about twenty miles from its Pittsburgh facilities. In 1907 ground was broken for the new plant and by 1909 the first blast furnace (A-1) was competed. In that same year construction of steel producing and rolling facilities commenced. Tinplate was first rolled in 1910; open hearth steel was first produced in 1912, and Bessemer Steel in 1914. By 1912 the plant had the capacity of 250,000 tons of ingots per year and by 1930, that capacity had grown to 1,420,000 tons of ingots. In 1989 the Aliquippa Works, the largest industrial plant in Beaver County employing about 14,950 men and women at its peak, was shutdown and in the following year the blast furnaces, A-1 through A-5 built between 1909 and 1919, were all razed.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Aliquippa Works.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Shinn, Bill.
    Aliquippa (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • 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.
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/