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Photo, Print, Drawing U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

[ Drawings from Survey HAER PA-115  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HAER PA-115  ]

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Title

  • U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • Carnegie, Andrew
  • Carnegie Steel Company
  • Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company
  • Duquesne Steel Company
  • U.S. Steel Corporation
  • USX Corporation
  • Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania
  • Neeland, Marvin A
  • Arthur G. McKee Company
  • Amsler, Carl
  • Mackintosh, Hemphill & Company
  • Uehling, Edward A
  • Schwab, Charles
  • Diehl, Ambrose N
  • Union Carbide Corporation, Linde Air Division
  • Keystone Bridge Company
  • Ingersoll-Rand
  • American Bridge Company
  • American Air Filter Company
  • Chemical Construction Corporation
  • Wemco Company
  • Perkins Dryer Company
  • Fuller Company
  • Morris Pump Inc.
  • Eimco Company
  • Dorr-Oliver Company
  • Pennwalt Corporation
  • Robbins and Myers, Inc.
  • U.S. Electrical Company
  • Milton Roy Company
  • Brassert-Vincent Company
  • Zimmerman and Jansen Company
  • U.S. Rubber Company
  • Link Belt Company
  • Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company
  • Heyl and Patterson Company
  • The C.O. Barlett and Snow Company
  • Atlas Car Manufacturing Company
  • Fitzsimons, Gray, project manager
  • Steel Industry Heritage Task Force, sponsor
  • Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, sponsor
  • Herrin, Dean A., transmitter
  • Bennett, Michael G., transmitter
  • Davidson, Lisa Pfueller, transmitter
  • Severance, Matthew B., delineator
  • Winarska, Joanna, delineator
  • Sabadasz, Joel, historian
  • Marston, Christopher H., field team supervisor
  • Stupich, Martin, photographer
  • Lowe, Jet, photographer

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  steel mills
  • -  office buildings
  • -  steel industry
  • -  automated materials handling
  • -  direct rolling
  • -  Social Darwinism
  • -  labor unions
  • -  immigrants
  • -  displacement
  • -  pollution
  • -  vacuum casting
  • -  energy conservation
  • -  testing
  • -  rolling mills
  • -  blowing engines
  • -  brick buildings
  • -  turbines
  • -  valves (hardware)
  • -  blowers
  • -  condensers
  • -  compressors
  • -  blast furnaces
  • -  cooling towers
  • -  pump houses
  • -  water pumps
  • -  control rooms
  • -  motors
  • -  hoppers
  • -  belt conveyors
  • -  trestles
  • -  tracks
  • -  ore yards
  • -  Warren trusses
  • -  steel truss bridges
  • -  Fink roof trusses
  • -  motor generator sets
  • -  traveling cranes
  • -  steel structural frames
  • -  coke bins
  • -  ore bins
  • -  concrete block buildings
  • -  motor rooms
  • -  Pennsylvania--Allegheny County--Duquesne

Latitude / Longitude

  • 40.36942,-79.84018

Notes

  • -  Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integrated steel producing ventures in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania. Constructed after the Edgar Thomson Works (1875), and the Homestead Works (1884), the Duquesne Works was the site of numerous technological innovations significant in the history of the American steel industry. The mill was the first to employ the "direct process" by which ingots were rolled directly from the soaking pits without being reheated. Under Carnegie Steel a new blast furnace plant was constructed with the industry's first fully mechanized material handling system, an innovation which came to be called the "Duquesne Revolution." For most of its history, Duquesne was a primary producer of semi-finished steel products. In the midst of a declining regional industrial system in the 1960s and 1970s, the mill was shut-down in 1984.
  • -  Survey number: HAER PA-115
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1886- 1888 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1888- 1890 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1890- 1901 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1901- 1984 Subsequent Work

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 10
  • Data Page(s): 256

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER PA,2-DUQU,3-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • pa1778

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Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel Company, Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company, Duquesne Steel Company, U.S. Steel Corporation, Usx Corporation, et al., Stupich, Martin, and Jet Lowe, photographer. U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA. Pennsylvania Allegheny County Duquesne, 1968. translateds by Herrin, Dean A.Mitter, Bennett, Michael G.Mitter, and Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/pa1778/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Carnegie, A., Carnegie Steel Company, Allegheny Bessemer Steel Company, Duquesne Steel Company, U.S. Steel Corporation [...] Marston, C. H., Stupich, M. & Lowe, J., photographer. (1968) U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA. Pennsylvania Allegheny County Duquesne, 1968. Herrin, D. A. M., Bennett, M. G. M. & Davidson, L. P., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/pa1778/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographers by Stupich, Martin, and Jet Lowe. U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, West bank of Monongahela River along State Route 837, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA. trans by Herrin, Dean A.Mitter, Bennett, Michael G.Mitter, and Davidson, Lisa Pfuellermitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/pa1778/>.