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A Manual for Architects, Engineers, and Fabricators of Buildings and Other Steel Structures Bibliography, Discography, and Videography (The following monographs, articles, periodicals, pamphlets, and brochures are available in or through the Rivers of Steel Archives. Please call 412-464-4020 ext. 21 or 22 for more information). General American Institute of Steel Construction. Steel Construction. New York: American Institute of Steel Construction, 1930. American Institute of Steel Construction. Steel Construction: A Manual For Architects, Engineers, and Fabricators of Buildings and Other Steel Structures. 5th ed. New York: American Institute of Steel Construction, 1947. American Iron and Steel Institute. Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada. 30th ed. New York: American Iron and Steel Institute, 1964. Anderson, E.P. Audels Millwrights & Mechanics Guide. New York: Theo Audel & Co. Publishers, 1940. Andrews, E. Benjamin. History of the United States. Vol. 5. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. Association of Iron and Steel Engineers Yearly Proceedings 1965. Pittsburgh, PA: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1965. ---. Association of Iron and Steel Engineers Yearly Proceedings 1966. Pittsburgh, PA: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1966. ---. Association of Iron and Steel Engineers Yearly Proceedings 1967. Pittsburgh, PA: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1967. ---. Directory: Iron and Steel Plants. Pittsburgh, PA: Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, 1989. Aston, James, and Edward B. Story. Wrought Iron: Its Manufacture Characteristics and Applications. Pittsburgh, PA: A. M. Byers Company, 1939. The Atlas of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Bachman, Frank P. Great Inventors and their Inventions. New York: American Book Company, 1918. Beale, Sir Louis. The British and American Steel Industries—Their Common Heritage. New York: The Newcomen Society, 1948. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area 1 Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Blast Furnaces. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. Beyer, George R. Guide to the State Historical Markers of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1991. Bituminous Mining Laws of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, PA: 1937. “Blueprint Reading for Machinists.” Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1972. Bomberger, Bruce, and William Sisson. Made in Pennsylvania: An Overview of the Major Historical Industries of the Commonwealth. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commisssion, 1991. Boore, J. Perc. The Seamless Story: A History of the Seamless Steel Tube Industry in the United States. Los Angeles: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1951. Borth, Christy. True Steel: The Story of George Matthew Verity and His Associates. Dayton, OH: Central Printing Co., 1941. Boucher, John Newton. William Kelly: A True History of the So-Called Bessemer Process. Greensburg, PA: Published by author, 1924. Boyer, Richard O. and Herbert M. Morais. Labor’s Untold Story. New York: United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 1955. Bridge, James Howard. History of the Carnegie Steel Company. New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. Brittingham, George R., ed. The Pennsylvania Manual 1968-1969. Vol. 99. Department of Property and Supplies, 1969. Bryce, Lloyd. The North American Review. Vol. 155. New York: No. 3 East Fourteenth Street, 1892. Building Operations in Pennsylvania Municipalities. Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Labor and Industry, 1953. Burns, John A., ed. Recording Historic Structures. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. Washington, D.C.: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1989. Buser, Daniel S., ed. The Pennsylvania Manual 1965-1966. Vol. 97. Department of Property and Supplies, 1966. Camp, J.M., and C.B. Francis. The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel. 4th ed. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 1919. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area 2 ---. The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel. 5th ed. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 1940. ---. The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel. 6th ed. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 1951. Campbell, James. Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1895. Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1896. Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Business of Engineering. Vol. II. Carnegie-Illinois Steel, 1946. Casson, Herbert N. The Romance of Steel: The Story of a Thousand Millionaires. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1907. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 62 (1901). Chan, I Mei, ed. Building on the Past Traveling to the Future: A Preservationist’s Guide to the ISTEA Transportation Enhancement Provision. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, Federal Highway Administration, n.d. Coal Field Directory 1928. New York: McGraw-Hill Catalog and Directory Company, Inc., 1928. Coal Mines 1910. Cleveland, OH: B.H. Rose, 1910. Colvin, Jr., William H. “Crucible Steel of America” 50 Years of Specialty Steelmaking in U.S.A. New York: The Newcomen Society, 1950. Coman, Katharine. The Industrial History of the United States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Costello, Dan and Lisa Schamess, ed. Building on the Past Traveling to the Future: A Preservationist’s Guide to the Federal Transportation Enhancement Provision. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, Federal Highway Administration, n.d. Davenport, Marcia. The Valley of Decision. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944. Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills. Ed. By Cecelia Tichi. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998. Dawes, Chester L. Industrial Electricity: Part I. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area 3 DeLony, Eric. Landmark American Bridges. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993. DiCiccio, Carmen. Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1996. ---. “The Rise and Fall of King Coal: A History of the Bituminous Coal and Coke Industry of Pennsylvania from 1740-1945.” Diss. University of Pittsburgh, 1996. The Dolomitic Refractories Association. First Helpers Manual. Cleveland, OH: The Dolomitic Refractories Association, 1956. Dulles, Foster Rhea. Labor in America: A History. 3rd ed. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1834. Elliot, G.O. and J.A. Bond. Practical Ironmaking. Sheffield: The United States Steel Companies Ltd., 1959. Ellis, Edward S., et. al. “United States.” The People’s History of the World. Vol. 10. Chicago: The History Publishing Association, 1900. Ferris, Geo T. The Complete History of the Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley Flood. New York: H.S. Goodspeed & Co., 1889. Fisher, Douglas Alan. The Epic of Steel. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1963. ---. Steel Serves the Nation 1901-1951: The Fifty Year Story of United States Steel. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1951. Fitch, John A. The Steel Workers. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Forsythe, Robert. The Blast Furnace and the Manufacture of Pig Iron. 2nd ed. New York: David Williams Company, 1909. Fritz, David, and A. Berle Clemensen. Pennsylvania and Main Line Canal. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, America’s Industrial Heritage Project, 1992. Garrow, Philip. Souls of Steel. Baltimore, MD: AmErica House, 1999. Godcharles, Frederic A. Pennsylvania: Political, Governmental, Military, and Civil. New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1933. Graeff, Arthur D. The History of Pennsylvania. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1945. Graham, Frank D. Audels Questions and Answers for Engineers and Firemans Examinations. New York: Theo. Audel & Co., 1946. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area 4 Hall, John Howe. The Steel Foundry. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1914. Havard, F.T. “Refractories and Furnaces.” Library of Iron and Steel. Vol. 7. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1912. Havighurst, Walter. Vein of Iron: The Pickands Mather Story. Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Co., 1958. Hawkins, N. Self-Help Mechanical Drawing: An Educational Treatise. New York: Theo. Audel & Co., 1902. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Historical Site Survey of the Greater Mon Valley. Pittsburgh, PA: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1991. Hoerr, John P. And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Holbrook, Stewart H. Iron Brew: A Century of American Ore and Steel. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Hurley, F. Jack. Industry and the Photographic Image: 153 Great Prints from 1850 to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Johnson, Jr. J.E. Blast Furnace Construction in America. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1917. Krause, Corinne Azen. The Hidden Industry: A History of Refractories in the U.S., 1860- 1985. American Ceramic Society, 1987. Laying Out for Boiler Makers and Sheet Metal Workers. 2nd ed. New York: Aldrich Publishing Company, 1913. Long, Priscilla. Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry. New York: Paragon House, 1989. McGannon, Harold E. The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel. 9th ed. Pittsburgh, PA: Herbick & Held, 1971. The Midvale Company. The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Midvale Company: 1867- 1942. The Midvale Company, 1942. Murray,
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