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• Slag run-off from open hearth furnace, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coke ovens (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Slag is drawn off the furnace just before the molten steel is poured into ladles for ingotting (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Melted sulphur from the wells pouring into relay station, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A scene in a steel mill, Republic Steel Mill, Youngstown, Ohio. Molten iron is blown in an Eastern Bessemer converter to change it to steel for war essentials (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Ladle of molten iron is poured into an open hearth furnace for conversion into steel, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. Note the safety latch on the crane hook (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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