Image: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Scrap Piles

Description: Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open-hearth furnace. About 50 per cent scrap steel is used in open-hearth production [1941?] 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects: Allegheny Ludlum Steele Corporation World War, 1939-1945 Steel industry United States--Pennsylvania--Brackenridge Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-27 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35061 Call Number: LC-USW36-270
Title: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Scrap Piles
Credit: flickr photostream of The Library of Congress; nee Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection
Author: Palmer, Alfred T.
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License: Public domain
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