Albert Woods | Historic Pittsburgh

1860/1867

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Title
Albert Woods
Creator
Cargo's Photographic Rooms
Identifier
PSS6.B002.I21
Source Identifier
PSS6.B002.I21
Description
Albert Woods worked for Lyon, Shorb & Company, also known as the Sligo Iron Works of Pittsburgh, as a rougher down, 10-inch train. He is shown here posing in his dress clothes. Roughers, using their tongs, grabbed blooms as they emerged from the squeezer and shoved one end of the bloom into the largest gap in the roughing rolls. These rollers increased the strength of the iron by compacting it and also pressed out slag left by the squeezer. The Sligo Iron Works was located on the south side of the Monongahela River opposite Pittsburgh’s Market Street. In 1826 the Sligo mill employed 30 men and produced bar, boiler, nail, and sheet iron valued at $99,000 per year. In 1879 the company employed 250 men and possessed 25 puddling furnaces, 10 heating furnaces, eight steam engines with 14 boilers in four separate batteries, and three steam hammers. The mill at this time was known for manufacturing flanged boiler heads and flue holes using specially designed machinery.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Woods, Albert.
Lyon, Shorb & Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Iron industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Lyon, Shorb & Company Photographs, ca. 1863-186, PSS 6, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Lyon, Shorb & Company Photographs
Rights Information
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