Indiana steel mill photographs [graphic], 1920-1940.

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Indiana steel mill photographs [graphic], 1920-1940.

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This collection contains photographs from five different Indiana steel companies from the 1920s through the 1940s. The photographs show the Chapman-Price Steel Company of Indianapolis, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, the Illinois Steel Co., the Rust Furnace Company, and the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, all of Gary, Indiana. The four Gary, Indiana mills in this collection are part of the larger U. S. Steel Gary Works. The photographs are mostly of equipment, but do show workers in some of the images of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation and Illinois Steel Co.

1 box of photographs.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7789113

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Rust Furnace Company

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Chapman-Price Steel Company

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Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation

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American Sheet and Tin Plate Company

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Illinois Steel Company

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The Illinois Steel Company was formed in 1889 by the merger of several Chicago-area steel concerns. During the 1890s, it was the largest steel producer in the western United States. The Illinois Steel Company was among the steel companies that merged in 1901 to form the United States Steel Corporation. From the description of Illinois Steel Company Photograph album, ca. 1896. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52614236 ...

Illinois Steel Company. Gary Works

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United States Steel Corporation. Gary Works

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Construction of the Gary Works steel plant at Gary, Indiana began in the summer of 1906. The Gary Works was a subsidiary of the Illinois Steel Company, which was in turn a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel). The plant in Gary became operational in 1908. Engineers employed by U.S. Steel platted the townsite in the spring and summer of 1906, but made few provisions for the immediate housing needs of the construction workers and laborers. In response to the housing short...