George Atwell Richardson Photographs 1969.082

George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

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Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

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Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 4 Arrangement ...... 6 Administrative Information ...... 6 Related Materials ...... 7 Controlled Access Headings ...... 7 Collection Inventory ...... 7 Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company ...... 7 Nicetown Plant ...... 8 Coatesville Works ...... 10 Rosedale Coal and Coke Works ...... 13 Cambria Steel Company ...... 15 Bethlehem Steel Corporation ...... 23 Bethlehem Steel division ...... 23 Bethlehem Ship Corporation division ...... 27 Bethlehem Mining Corporation division ...... 27 Exhibits ...... 28 Other steel and coal companies ...... 29

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Summary Information

Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Richardson, George A., 1886-1976 Title: George Atwell Richardson photographs ID: 1969.082 Date [inclusive]: 1876-1955 Physical Description: 6 Linear Feet Physical Description: approximately 1,100 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in or 5 x 7 in. 90 glass plate negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. 3 glass plate negatives : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. Approximately 1,000 photographic copy prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. 2 albums. 42 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. 7 articles. 15 letters. 1 blueprint. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: George A. Richardson (1886-1976) was an engineer with an expertise in metallurgy, he spent his career primarily involved in technical publicity and sales for major steel manufacturers such as the Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. This collection of photographs and negatives was primarily taken by George Atwell Richardson throughout the course of his career while working for Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The images document views of steel plants and operations, as well as steel products mostly taken between 1913 and 1929. The collection has been organized into five series: Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company; Cambrian Steel Company; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Exhibits, and Other steel and coal companies.

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Biographical note

George A. Richardson (1886-1976) was an engineer with an expertise in metallurgy, he spent his career primarily involved in technical publicity and sales for major steel manufacturers. Richardson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1913, he began working in the sales department at the Midvale Steel Company.

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The Midvale Steel Company changed its name to the Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company in 1915, and Richardson became advertising manager. In 1916, Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company took control of the Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1923 both of these firms were acquired by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Richardson was the manager of the Technical Publicity Department of the Bethlehem Steel Company. Like many of Bethlehem's junior executives, he was furloughed during the Depression in 1933.

After 1933, Richardson acted as an independent consultant developing and promoting metallurgical inventions. From 1938 until his retirement he was sales manager for METLAB (Metallurgical Laboratories, Inc.) in Philadelphia. He taught metallurgy at Temple University between 1939 and 1949.

Richardson was the author of numerous technical articles and manuals. He was also an early amateur photographer. He was able to develop his talent to professional levels doing documentary photography to illustrate his lectures and publications on the steel industry. He was also interested in the history of the steel industry and of the Lehigh Valley, where he settled. He died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1976.

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Scope and Content

This collection of photographs and negatives was primarily taken by George Atwell Richardson throughout the course of his career while working for Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The images document views of steel plants and operations, as well as steel products mostly taken between 1913 and 1929. The collection has been organized into five series: Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company; Cambrian Steel Company; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Exhibits, and Other steel and coal companies.

Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company series has been organized into three subseries by plant: Nicetown, Coatesville, and Rosedale.

The Nicetown Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the main plant for Midvale. The images show interiors of shop #5, casting plant and main office exteriors, staff, field day events, and ingots. There are also articles related to steel production, several of which were written by Richardson and include the associated photographs and correspondence related to publishing. Images date from the 1890s through 1923.

Coatesville Works subseries contains interior and exterior plant views, mills, offices, open hearth plant, machine shop, viaduct mill and furnaces, and an employee picnic. These images date from 1918 to 1927.

Rosedale Coal and Coke Works was originally slated to be constructed by Cambria Steel Company, was completed as a Midvale plant in 1922. The photographs date from 1922 and show mining machines at Elk River, exterior plant views, views of the rock dump and washery, and the by-product plant.

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Cambrian Steel Company series shows images of the lower works blast furnaces, plant views, manufacturing, sintering plant, and car shops. There are also images of the Franklin By-Product Plant interiors and exteriors and the Rolling Mill Mine, which was a drift portal coal mine. There are photographs of the company town of Slicksville, Pennsylvania which shows mine workers housing, company stores and offices, and an article about the town by Richarson. There are also images of the Wheel Plant showing the pump room, machinery, wheel mill and exterior views of the plant and the Wire Plant showing the shipping floor, machinery, production processes, and bessemer convertors. The materials in this series date from the 1870s to 1926, with outliers from 1856 and 1929.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation series has been organized into three subseries: Bethlehem Steel division; Bethlehem Ship Corporation division; and Bethlehem Mining Corporation division.

Bethlehem Steel division primarily documents the Sparrows Point plant and the Steelton Plant. There are some images from the Lackawanna, Lebanon, and McClintic-Marshall plants. These images are taken between 1922 and 1929. There are also photographs that show various uses of steel including the Delaware River Bridge construction in 1924 and Mayori iron in 1929.

Bethlehem Ship Corporation division primarily documents the Harlan plant with some additional materials related to Baltimore Dry Dock Works; Boston Plant, SImpson & Co. Dock; Charles Ward Engineering Works; and Hog Island shipyard. These images date from 1921 to 1926.

Bethlehem Mining Corporation division is primarily photographs of the Preston division showing mine #27 track work and village views. There are also photographs from the Elmsworth and Marion divisions. These materials date from 1924 and 1929.

Exhibits series consists of photographs of displays of products of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company and of the Bethlehem Steel Company at various trade fairs and expositions between 1919 and 1925. The photographs appear mostly in two albums compiled by Richardson. Annual exhibitions shown include the American Railway Association and the American Electric Railway Association, Atlantic City; the National Tractor Show, various locations; the American Mining Congress, various locations; and several other smaller shows. There are also some photographs from Metlab Co. plant and products exhibitions from the 1930s and from around 1955 and an employee identification portrait of Richardson from around 1941.

Other steel and coal companies includes the Jamison Coal and Coke Company, the Pennsylvania Iron Mining Company, the Hanna Company, De Bardeleben Coal Corporation, Eastern Manufacturing Co., Fayro Machine Co., Miller Lock Co., Oak Hill Coal Co., Link Belt Engineering Co., and the Hudson Coal Co.

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Arrangement

The original order of the collection has been lost. The archivist imposed an order based on company and plant location. The materials related to Cambria Steel Company straddle two owners (Midvale and Bethlehem) and therefore is its own series.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections

PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library

Access Restrictions This collection is open for research.

Negatives are stored offsite in cold storage and must reacclimate prior to viewing (Boxes 10-11). Please contact the Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department at least 48 hours in advance of research visit.

Glass plate negatives DO NOT CIRCULATE.

Provenance A large majority of the negatives in this collection were taken by George Atwell Richardson. The copy photographs were made from the original negatives by Hagley Museum and Library for research purposes. Not all of the negatives have prints. There have been some prints made from negatives that were deteriorated and have since been disposed of.

The collection was a series of gifts from George Atwell Richardson, with a small portion having been purchased from him.

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Related Materials

Related Material George Atwell Richardson papers (Accessions 1230 and 1307), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company motion picture films (Accession 1970.034), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

Link Belt Company records re scientific management (Accession 0988), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

Metlab Co. miscellany (Accession 1447), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.

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Controlled Access Headings

• Bessemer process • Iron and steel workers • Steel industry and trade. • Coal mines and mining. • Blast furnaces • Bethlehem Steel Corporation • Cambria Steel Co. • Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company

Collection Inventory

Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company

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Scope and Contents

Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company series has been organized into three subseries by plant: Nicetown, Coatesville, and Rosedale.

Nicetown Plant, circa 1890-1923 Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Casting plant, main office, and staff, circa 1890-18921895 box 1 folder 1 Scope and Contents

Includes: main office interior and exteriors, testing room interior with Sam Watson, #1 machine shop exterior and interior, chemical laboratory interior with staff, mess room, President's office, doctors office, a wheel shaft, and group staff portrait.

Shop #5, view of lathes, 1913 November box 1 folder 2

Shop #5, view of lathes and general views, 1913 November box 5 folder 1-2a

Field day events, 1917 June 13 box 1 folder 3 Scope and Contents

Includes: sprint races, high jump, sack race, Foley wins the mile, Frank Foos broad jumping, broad jump, inter- company relay race, the grand stand hurdles, potato race, parade, George Satterthwaite, relay champions - Cambria, ball toss, Ogden & family: W.M. Bailey, L. R. Steuer, Ogden, Jack G. Davis, F.G. Yeates; Fred Fervis, Ed Price, George Dix, Radclyffe Runners, and George Dix and somebody's baby.

Field day events, 1917 June 13 box 5 folder 26-42

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Scope and Content

"Forged and Rolled Steel Wheels and Steel-Tired Wheels" , box 1 folder 4 1919 Scope and Contents

Includes article by George Atwell Richardson and associated correspondence with publishers and images to accompany published article.

Edward A. Richardson at Engineer Officers' training camp, 1919 box 6 folder January 26 1059-1061

Castings for 14,000 ton press, circa 1919 box 1 folder 5

Kennet Consolidated School, high school building upon box 1 folder 6 completion, circa 1921

Bending, machining, and cutting armor plates, 1921 May 5 box 1 folder 7

"An Improved Method of Making Steel Gear and Wheel box 1 folder 8 Blanks", 1921 June 9 Scope and Contents

Written by George Atwell Richardson. Published in American Machinist.

Chip from 16" coast defense gun, 1921 July 7 box 1 folder 9

Bottom pouring electric steel ingots, 1922 August 8 box 1 folder 10

Bottom pouring electric steel ingots, 1922 August 8 box 10 folder 1

Heroult furnace, 1922 August 8 box 10 folder 2

Shop #5, interiors, 1922 August 15 box 1 folder 11

Midvale Fire Mill, 1922 August 15 box 5 folder 3-4

Steel articles, 19221923 box 1 folder 12 Scope and Contents

Includes: "Cambria Steel Co. Drops Coal Down Well, Loads It at Bottom and Hauls It to Ovens," by George Atwell Richardson; "European By-Product Coking During 1921," by A. Thau; "New By-Product Coke Oven Plants," by J.M. Hastings Jr.; "Franklin Byproduct Plant Makes

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Amonia, Motor and Pure Benzol, Toluol, Xylol and Solvent Naphtha," by George Atwell Richardson. Two from Coal Age and two from The Blast Furnace & Steel Plant.

Original photographs from articles and photographs lists, box 1 folder 13 19221923

Bending roll, circa 1923 box 1 folder 14

Alloy curves, undated box 1 folder 15 Scope and Contents

Used in Midvale catalog.

Alloy curves, undated box 5 folder 5-7 Scope and Content

Used in Midvale catalog.

Homocarb furnace, undated box 1 folder 16

Coatesville Works, 1918-1927 Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Plant views, exteriors, 1918 March 29 box 1 folder 17

Plant views, exteriors, 1918 March 29 box 6 folder 274-284

Mills and office, exteriors, 1918 June 1 box 1 folder 18 Scope and Contents

Includes: viaduct mill, valley mills, charcoal furnaces, and original office.

Mills and office, exteriors, 1918 June 1 box 6 folder 285-296 Scope and Content

Includes: viaduct mill, valley mills, charcoal furnaces, and original office.

Viaduct mill, charcoal furnace and beam hammer, 1918 box 1 folder 19 December 2

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Scope and Contents

Includes: scrap yard, scrap piles, and blooms.

Viaduct mill, charcoal furnace and beam hammer, 1918 box 6 folder 304 December 2 Scope and Content

Scrap pile.

Plant views, interiors, 1918 December 3 box 1 folder 20 Scope and Contents

Includes: charcoal and baskets, power house at viaduct mill, charcoal iron bars, cold bending machine, shear taking scrap from slitter, slitting machine, loading piles bars in furnace, rolls for rolling shelf, shearing ends of shelf, pile of cold bent pipe, tube mill, changing shelf, and changing tube in furnace.

Plant views, interiors and exteriors, 1918 December 4 box 1 folder 21 Scope and Contents

Includes: knobbling, faggots ready for heating furnace, slabs for steel shelf, piles ready for charging, tube coming from welding roll, and interior of tube mill.

Plant views, interiors and exteriors, 1918 December 4 box 6 folder 329-335 Scope and Content

Includes: knobbling, faggots ready for heating furnace, slabs for steel shelf, piles ready for charging, tube coming from welding roll, and interior of tube mill.

Plant views, interiors and employee group portrait, 1921 April box 1 folder 22 19 Scope and Contents

Includes: circular spinning flanging machine, ladle bottom, flanged and dished head manufacture, heads on cooling block, head removed from furnace after reheating, finished head, head ready for shipment, large and small heads, head for tank of oil burning locomotive, dome sheet for Marion tank car, hydraulic sectional flanging press, and flanging plant employees group portaits.

Plant views, interiors and employee group portrait, 1921 April box 10 folder 3 19 Scope and Contents

Includes: circular spinning flanging machine, ladle bottom, flanged and dished head manufacture, heads on - Page 11- George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

cooling block, head removed from furnace after reheating, finished head, head ready for shipment, large and small heads, head for tank of oil burning locomotive, dome sheet for Marion tank car, hydraulic sectional flanging press, and flanging plant employees group portaits.

Plant views, interiors, 1921 July 29 box 1 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Includes: hydraulic sectional flanger, marine boiler head, flanged and dished head, manhold plates, Westinghouse tank bottom, and trimming machine.

Plant views, interiors, 1921 July 29 box 10 folder 4 Scope and Contents

Includes: hydraulic sectional flanger, marine boiler head, flanged and dished head, manhold plates, Westinghouse tank bottom, and trimming machine.

Employee picnic, 1921 July 16 box 1 folder 24 Scope and Contents

Includes: a performance.

Employee picnic, 1921 July 16 box 10 folder 5 Scope and Contents

Includes: a performance.

Plant views, exteriors, 1921 August 5 box 1 folder 25-26 Scope and Contents

Includes: plate ingots, stock yard, turn-over #3 mill, #4 mill, and blast furnaces.

Plant views, exteriors, 1921 August 5 box 10 folder 6-7 Scope and Contents

Includes: plate ingots, stock yard, turn-over #3 mill, #4 mill, blast furnaces, guillotine shears, circular shears, and plate mill gas producers.

Plant views, exteriors, 1921 September 2 box 1 folder 27 Scope and Contents

Includes: stock yard, charging bins, and blast furnaces.

Plant views, exteriors, 1921 September 2 box 10 folder 8

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Scope and Contents

Includes: stock yard, charging bins, and blast furnaces.

Open hearth plant, interiors, 1921 October 4 box 1 folder 28 Scope and Contents

Includes: gas blower engines, centrifugal cleaners, break out #3 blast furnace, molds on table ready for bottom housing, clean ingots, charging furnace, and tons of scrap iron.

Open hearth plant, interiors, 1921 October 4 box 10 folder 9 Scope and Contents

Includes: gas blower engines, centrifugal cleaners, break out #3 blast furnace, molds on table ready for bottom housing, clean ingots, charging furnace, and tons of scrap iron.

Machine shop and tube mill, interiors, 1922 May 2 box 1 folder 29 Scope and Contents

Includes: heads piled on floor, still bottoms, machining inside flange, piles of tubes in storage, and carloads of tubes.

Signs and ingots, 1927 July 25 box 1 folder 30 Scope and Contents

Includes: sign board investigation general view Lincoln Highway, Lukens signs, Bethlehem boiler tube sign, north and south end viaduct plant shows sign on roof, and large and small ingots.

Signs and ingots, 1927 July 25 box 10 folder 10 Scope and Contents

Includes: sign board investigation general view Lincoln Highway, Lukens signs, Bethlehem boiler tube sign, north and south end viaduct plant shows sign on roof, and large and small ingots.

Knobbling furnaces, undated box 6 folder 371

Rosedale Coal and Coke Works, 1922

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Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Mining machines at Elk River, 1922 February 23 box 2 folder 1

Mining machines at Elk River, 1922 February 23 box 10 folder 11 Scope and Contents

Includes: loading cars, loading machines, mine ties, car dumper, interior of motor barn, storeroom in motor barn, pump room interiors, steel guides and brintons, and mine car skids.

Plant views, exteriors, 1922 April 10 box 2 folder 2 Scope and Contents

Includes: spray pond, quenched coke, electric motor, dumping platform, coke conveyor, new ore bridge, and upper battery of ovens.

Plant views, exteriors, 1922 April 10 box 10 folder 12 Scope and Contents

Includes: spray pond, quenched coke, electric motor, dumping platform, coke conveyor, new ore bridge, and upper battery of ovens.

Rock dump and coal washery, 1922 April 14 box 2 folder 3

Rock dump and coal washery, 1922 April 14 box 10 folder 13

Plant and washery interiors, 1922 May 1 box 2 folder 4 Scope and Contents

Includes: ovens, quenching tower, head frame, rocking tables, washing tables, and waste chutes.

Coal washery, 1922 July 17-1922 July 18 box 2 folder 5 Scope and Contents

Includes: waste chutes, heating apparatus, wash water pump, waste dumps, camshaft, washing tables, digger crane, conveyor with trip dumper, inclined conveyor, coal mixer, cooling coils, spray pond, and employee group portrait.

By-product plant, 1922 July 19-1922 July 20 box 2 folder 6

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Scope and Contents

Includes: cooling coils, spray pond, tanks, scrubbers, coke ovens, coke wharf, coke handling buildings, quenching tower, fuel gas main and burner pipes, solvay ovens, storage bins, sulphate storage, centrifugal dryer, tar remover, coolers, tar valve, straw oil pump room, tar decanters, dehydrator, and interior of sulphate house.

By-product plant, 1922 July 20 box 10 folder 14 Scope and Contents

Includes: straw oil pump room, tar decanters, dehydrator, and interior of sulphate house.

Mine #5, 1922 May 1 box 2 folder 7 Scope and Contents

Includes bottom of shaft and steel sprag.

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Cambria Steel Company, 18561870s-19261929 Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Lower Works, blast furnaces and shop views, 185618711876 box 2 folder 8 Scope and Contents

3 are engravings, 3 are photographic images.

Lower Works, blast furnace, 1871 box 10 folder 15 Scope and Contents

Engraving.

Lower Works, plant views, exteriors, circa 1870s box 2 folder 9

Lower Works, blast furnaces #3 and #4, circa 1900s box 2 folder 10

Lower Works, plant views, interiors and exteriors, 1907-1914 box 2 folder 11

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Scope and Contents

Includes workers.

Lower Works, manufacture of gear blanks, 1920 June 28 box 2 folder 12 Scope and Contents

Includes: slick mill interior, 22" ingot, blocks, first bubble, second bubble, third bubble, and blanks.

Lower Works, manufacture of gear blanks, 1920 June 28 box 5 folder 60-69 Scope and Content

Includes: slick mill interior, 22" ingot, blocks, first bubble, second bubble, third bubble, and blanks.

Lower Works, manufacture of rolled steel wheels, 1920 June 28 box 2 folder 13 Scope and Contents

Includes: #1 press, #2 press, wheels, rolls, and stamping.

Lower Works, manufacture of rolled steel wheels, 1920 June 28 box 5 folder 70-75 Scope and Content

Includes: #1 press, #2 press, wheels, rolls, and stamping.

Lower Works, "Slick Wheel Mill and its Products at the Works of box 2 folder 14-15 the Cambria Steel Company", 1920-1921 Scope and Contents

Written by George Atwell Richardson. Includes correspondence regarding publication in American Machinist.

Lower Works, old kelly converter in main office, 1922 February box 2 folder 16 24

Lower Works, old kelly converter in main office, 1922 February box 10 folder 16 24

Lower Works, old kelly converter in main office, 1922 February box x folder 24 unknown container

Lower Works, view of Johnstown from incline, 1922 March 3 box 2 folder 17

Lower Works, view of Johnstown from incline, 1922 March 3 box 10 folder 17

Lower Works, blast furnace #11, 1922 March 22 box 2 folder 18

Lower Works, blast furnace #11, 1922 March 22 box 10 folder 18

Lower Works, sintering plant, 1922 April 10 box 2 folder 19

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Lower Works, sintering plant, 1922 April 10 box 10 folder 19

Lower Works, sintering plant, 1922 May 1 box 2 folder 20

Lower Works, automatic blast furnace #4, 1925 February 15 box 2 folder 21

Lower Works, automatic blast furnace #4, 1925 February 15 box 10 folder 20

Lower Works, car shops, machinery, 1921 December 20 box 2 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Includes bolt machine, rivet machine, screening nuts, tapping nuts, end reinforcing pieces, 2100 ton hydraulic press, steam hammers, and tank shop.

Lower Works, car shops, machinery, 1921 December 20 box 10 folder 21 Scope and Contents

Includes bolt machine, rivet machine, screening nuts, tapping nuts, end reinforcing pieces, 2100 ton hydraulic press, steam hammers, and tank shop.

Lower Works, car shops, plant interiors, 1922 March box 2 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Includes workers. Photographs taken by William Derr.

Lower Works, car shops, plant interiors, 1922 March box 10 folder 22 Scope and Contents

Includes workers. Photographs taken by William Derr.

Lower Works, car shops, machinery, 1922 March 15 box 2 folder 24 Scope and Contents

Includes hood blanks, pressing hoods, shearing gear discs, shearing plates, hammering push pole sockets, clevises in heating furnace, small plates, #1 position, car being put on truck, and a finished car for Delaware Lackawanna and Wilmington Railroad.

Lower Works, car shops, machinery, 1922 March 15 box 10 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Lower Works, car shops, tie plate machine, 1922 March 22 box 2 folder 25

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Lower Works, car shops, tie plate machine, 1922 March 22 box 10 folder 24

Lower Works, car shops, interiors and exteriors, 1922 July box 2 folder 26 21-1922 July 22 Scope and Contents

Includes west track and erection shop, pile of trucks, wheel track with wheels and axles, position #9, views of storeyard, outside gang press, position #5, position #6, gage punching, and tank shop.

Lower Works, car shops, interiors and exteriors, 1922 July box 10 folder 25 21-1922 July 22 Scope and Contents

Includes west track and erection shop, pile of trucks, wheel track with wheels and axles, position #9, views of storeyard, outside gang press, position #5, position #6, gage punching, and tank shop.

Lower Works, car shops, truck shop and axle shop views, 1925 box 2 folder 27 February 141925 February 191925 February 26 Scope and Contents

Includes pusher pushing trucks, Pennsylvania Railroad trucks, piles of axles, wheel stock, and side frames.

Lower Works, car shops, truck shop and axle shop views, 1925 box 10 folder 26 February 141925 February 191925 February 26 Scope and Contents

Includes pusher pushing trucks, Pennsylvania Railroad trucks, piles of axles, wheel stock, and side frames.

Lower Works, car shops, truck assembly bed and Ben Faunce's box 2 folder 28 desk, 1925 March 31925 March 4 Scope and Contents

desk shows day after the completion of record on Pennsylvania Railroad ARA wood lined box cars.

Lower Works, car shops, truck assembly bed and Ben Faunce's box 10 folder 27 desk, 1925 March 31925 March 4 Scope and Contents

desk shows day after the completion of record on Pennsylvania Railroad ARA wood lined box cars.

Lower Works, car shops, tank car shop interiors, circa 1925-1926 box 2 folder 29

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Scope and Contents

Includes: edging plates, shearing circular plates, electric rivet heater, assembly shell, hand riveting shell, lowering shell onto bull riveter, riveting with bull riveter, applying head, riveting head in place, and completed bodies.

Lower Works, car shops, tank car shop interiors, circa 1925-1926 box 10 folder 28 Scope and Contents

Franklin By-Product Plant, mill interiors, 1923 January 15 box 3 folder 1 Scope and Contents

Includes: 134" plate mill, 40" blooming mill, and 32" blooming mill.

Franklin By-Product Plant, mill interiors, 1923 January 15 box 10 folder 29 Scope and Contents

Includes: 134" plate mill, 40" blooming mill, and 32" blooming mill.

Franklin By-Product Plant, interiors and exteriors, 1923 July box 3 folder 2 21-1923 July 22 Scope and Contents

Includes: power house exteriors, tar extractor and saturator, sulphate storage, sulphate drying kiln, light oil pump room, and control room in light oil plant.

Franklin By-Product Plant, interiors and exteriors, 1923 July box 10 folder 30 21-1923 July 22 Scope and Contents

Includes: power house exteriors, tar extractor and saturator, sulphate storage, sulphate drying kiln, light oil pump room, and control room in light oil plant.

Franklin By-Product Plant, blast furnaces, 1925 December 27 box 3 folder 3 Scope and Contents

Includes: #11, #8, and #4.

Franklin By-Product Plant, blast furnaces, 1925 December 27 box 10 folder 31

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Scope and Contents

Includes: #11, #8, and #4.

Mill Creek Furnace, circa 1900s box 3 folder 4

Mill Creek Furnace, circa 1900s box 10 folder 32

Morgan Mill, 18" continuous billet mill, 1923 January 13 box 3 folder 5

Morgan Mill, 18" continuous billet mill, 1923 January 13 box 10 folder 33

Morgan Mill, belt-drive, circa 1926 box 3 folder 6

Morgan Mill, belt-drive, circa 1926 box 10 folder 34

Rolling Mill Mine, exteriors, 1922 April 16 box 3 folder 7

Rolling Mill Mine, exteriors, 1922 April 16 box 10 folder 35

Rolling Mill Mine, dispatcher office interior, 1922 December 16 box 3 folder 8

Rolling Mill Mine, dispatcher office interior, 1922 December 16 box 10 folder 36

Rolling Mill Mine, slag dump, 1923 August 25 box 3 folder 9

Rolling Mill Mine, slag dump, 1923 August 25 box 10 folder 37

Rolling Mill Mine, frog and wooden mine ties, 1923 September 6 box 3 folder 10

Rolling Mill Mine, frog and wooden mine ties, 1923 September 6 box 10 folder 38

Rolling Mill Mine, coal storage site, 1924 January box 3 folder 11

Rolling Mill Mine, coal storage site, 1924 January box 10 folder 39

Rolling Mill Mine, steel ties, 1929 July box 3 folder 12

Rolling Mill Mine, steel ties, 1929 July box 10 folder 40

Rolling Mill Mine, steel ties, undated box 10 folder 41

Slickville, Pennsylvania, article and correspondence, 1923 box 3 folder 13 Scope and Contents

Article, "Good Housing Makes for Better Production," written by George Atwell Richardson.

Slickville, Pennsylvania, company office, company store, box 3 folder 14 storehouse, powder house, circa 1922

Slickville, Pennsylvania, mine workers housing, circa 1922 box 3 folder 15 Scope and Contents

Includes: Roman Catholic Church, school house, local boyscout troop group portrait and encampment.

Slickville, Pennsylvania, mine workers housing, 1923 March 19 box 3 folder 16

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Scope and Contents

Includes: Roman Catholic Church, school house, general store, and main office.

Slickville, Pennsylvania, mine workers housing, 1923 March 19 box 10 folder 42 Scope and Contents

Includes: Roman Catholic Church, school house, general store, and main office.

Wheel Plant, Midvale wheels, before 1916 box 3 folder 17 Scope and Contents

Photographs taken by M.J. Hayes for a paper on wheels.

Wheel Plant, Midvale wheels, before 1916 box 6 folder 219-224 Scope and Content

Photographs taken by M.J. Hayes for a paper on wheels.

Wheel Plant, pump room and stock of wheels, 1922 March box 3 folder 18 Scope and Contents

Photographs taken by William Derr.

Wheel Plant, pump room and stock of wheels, 1922 March box 10 folder 43 Scope and Contents

Photographs taken by William Derr.

Wheel Plant, machinery and break drum forgings, 1922 April 8 box 3 folder 19 Scope and Contents

Includes blocks in stock, and rough machining wheel.

Wheel Plant, machinery and break drum forgings, 1922 April 8 box 10 folder 44 Scope and Contents

Includes blocks in stock, and rough machining wheel.

Wheel Plant, wheel mill, forging die, corning plate, and punch die, box 3 folder 20 1922 April 15

Wheel Plant, wheel mill, forging die, corning plate, and punch die, box 10 folder 45 1922 April 15

Wheel Plant, new stamping on wheels, piston heads, and box 3 folder 21 transformer room, 1922 May 1

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Wheel Plant, exterior view of plant and presses, 1922 July box 3 folder 22 14-1922 July 15 Scope and Contents

Includes: #1 press, #2 press with hub punch press, and corning press.

Wheel Plant, machinery, circa 1925 box 3 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Includes: rolling blooms, rotary sheers, #1 forging press, #2 forging press, hub punch press, and horizontal mill for turning wheels.

Wheel Plant, machinery, circa 1925 box 10 folder 46 Scope and Contents

Includes: rolling blooms, rotary sheers, #1 forging press, #2 forging press, hub punch press, and horizontal mill for turning wheels.

Wheel Plant, machinery, circa 1925-1926 box 3 folder 24 Scope and Contents

Includes: remaining block from heating furnace, heating furnaces, #1 slick mill, hub punch and circular sheers, and stock of dies for #1 mill.

Wheel Plant, machinery, circa 1925-1926 box 10 folder 47 Scope and Contents

Includes: remaining block from heating furnace, heating furnaces, #1 slick mill, hub punch and circular sheers, and stock of dies for #1 mill.

Wire Mill, 1922 August 1 box 3 folder 25 Scope and Contents

Includes: shipping floor, barbed wire machines, nail machines, and fence machines.

Wire Mill, 1922 August 1 box 10 folder 48 Scope and Contents

Includes: shipping floor, barbed wire machines, nail machines, and fence machines.

Wire Mill, 1922 December 17 box 3 folder 26

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Scope and Contents

Includes: finishing rolls, finishing stands, gears operating, belt drive, cross-section of a bar, and cross-section of a billet.

Wire Mill, 1922 December 17 box 10 folder 49 Scope and Contents

Includes: finishing rolls, finishing stands, gears operating, belt drive, cross-section of a bar, and cross-section of a billet.

Wire Mill, 1926 September box 3 folder 27 Scope and Contents

Includes: Bessemer convertors.

Wire Mill, 1926 September box 10 folder 50 Scope and Contents

Includes: Bessemer convertors.

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Bethlehem Steel Corporation Scope and Contents

Bethlehem Steel Corporation series has been organized into three subseries: Bethlehem Steel division; Bethlehem Ship Corporation division; and Bethlehem Mining Corporation division.

Bethlehem Steel division, 1922-192919321942 Scope and Contents

Bethlehem Steel division primarily documents the Sparrows Point plant and the Steelton Plant. There are some images from the Lackawanna, Lebanon, and McClintic-Marshall plants. These images are taken between 1922 - Page 23- George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

and 1929. There are also photographs that show various uses of steel including the Delaware River Bridge construction in 1924 and Mayori iron in 1929.

Title/Description Instances Kodak negative albums, 1922-19241927-1929 box 7 Scope and Content

Original negative containers with handwritten inventories.

Lackawana, unloading doc and coal storage, circa 1926 box 3 folder 28

Lackawana, unloading doc and coal storage, circa 1926 box 11 folder 1

Lebanon, sign board report, 1922 July 21 box 11 folder 2

Lehigh Valley Railroad car, circa 1900s box 3 folder 29 Scope and Contents

#10000.

McClintic-Marshall jobs for annual calendar, 1932 October box 3 folder 30 Scope and Contents

Includes: gas holder, towers, and Express Highway.

Night view of unidentified plant, circa 1920s box 3 folder 31

Sparrows Point, Tin Plate Plant, 1925 box 3 folder 32 Scope and Contents

Includes: sheering shee bars to tin bar lengths, charging pair furnaces, tin bar rolling, rolling black plate, double plate in pair furnace for reheating, black pickler, separating black plate, annealing kiln, cold rolling black plate, white pickling, automatic feeding machine, tinning, cleaning tin, inspecting tin, loading for shipment, and office dispensary and restaurant.

Sparrows Point, sheet bar, interior and plant view aerials, 1925 box 3 folder 33 August

Sparrows Point, sheet bar, interior and plant view aerials, 1925 box 11 folder 3 August

Sparrows Point, wire mill interiors, 1926 box 11 folder 4-5

Sparrows Point, wire mill interiors and exteriors, 1926 box 3 folder 34-36 September Scope and Contents

Includes: aerial views, billet storage and corner time clock house, charging continuous heating furnace, billet discharging machine, roughing stands, flying shears, reel pipes, open and muffle type bundle conveyors, tilting arm - Page 24- George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

receiving bundle, hook conveyor, rod storage, pickling nuts, rust or sulbring conveyor, lime tub, rods in bake ovens, wire drawing loft, wire drawing die, drawing bender, die room, die reaming machine, straightening and cutting machine, annealing pot, machine shop, nail machines, weighting nails, dumping nails, hardening nails, barbed wire machines, bale tie machines, acid tanks, galvanizing department, riveting hoops, expanding hoops, shipping platform, pig casting machine, and ship Cubore at unloading dock.

Sparrows Point, wire mill interiors and exteriors, 1926 box 11 folder 6 September

Sparrows Point, pipe mill, tine plate mills, butt mill, and lap box 11 folder 7 mill, 1928 December

Sparrows Point, pulverizer plant, 1929 December 19 box 11 folder 8

Steelton, Frog and Switch Department, circa 1924-1925 box 4 folder 1

Steelton, Frog and Switch Department, circa 1924-1925 box 11 folder 9

Steelton, foundry, circa 1925 box 4 folder 2

Steelton, foundry, circa 1925 box 11 folder 10

Steelton, Erector Shop exterior and cars, 1927 August 6 box 4 folder 3

Steelton, Erector Shop exterior and cars, 1927 August 6 box 11 folder 11

Uses of steel, 1923 May 71924 January1924 September 3 box 4 folder 4 Scope and Contents

Includes: Fidelity & Deposit Co. building, Baltimore, Maryland; Boiler room, Philadelphia Garbage, Incinerating Plant; and Hollidaysburg Yard, Pennsylvania Railroad.

Uses of steel, 1923 May 71924 January1924 September 3 box 11 folder 12x Scope and Contents

Includes: Fidelity & Deposit Co. building, Baltimore, Maryland; Boiler room, Philadelphia Garbage, Incinerating Plant; and Hollidaysburg Yard, Pennsylvania Railroad.

Uses of steel, Delaware River Bridge construction, 1924 box 4 folder 5 February 21924 February 4

Uses of steel, Delaware River Bridge construction, 1924 box 11 folder 13 February 21924 February 4

Uses of steel, Susquehanna Trolley, circa 1928 box 11 folder 14

Uses of steel, Mayori iron rolls and drums for automobile box 11 folder 15 presses, 1929 April 5

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Scope and Contents

Harris-Seibold-Potter Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron manifolds and cylinder blocks for box 11 folder 16 Continental Motors, 1929 May 9 Scope and Contents

Spring City Foundry Co., Waukeska, Wisconsin.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron bowls zenith carburetors for Ford box 11 folder 17 Motors, 1929 May 20 Scope and Contents

Yale Manufacturing Co. Foundry, Albion, Michigan.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron liners for Hardinge Mill, 1929 May box 11 folder 18 27 Scope and Contents

Steacy-Schmidt Manufacturing Co., York, Pennsylvania.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron match plate, 1929 June 3 box 11 folder 19 Scope and Contents

Diamond Match Co., Barberton, Ohio.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron for front and rear rollers for road box 11 folder 20 rollers, 1929 June 4 Scope and Contents

Galion Iron Works & Manufacturing Co., Galion, Ohio.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron cast wheels and gear casing, 1929 box 11 folder 21 June 4 Scope and Contents

Huber Manufacturing Co., Marion, Ohio.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron twin nineties, cylinders, engines, and box 11 folder 22 fly wheels, 1929 June 6 Scope and Contents

Superior Gas Engine Co., Springfield, Ohio.

Uses of steel, Mayori iron pump cylinders, 1929 June 7 box 11 folder 23

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Scope and Contents

Worthington Pump Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Uses of steel, cylinder head for testing, 1942 June 9 box 4 folder 6

Bethlehem Ship Corporation division, 1921-1926 Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Baltimore Dry Dock Works, circa 1920s box 4 folder 7

Boston Plant, Simpson & Co. Dock, undated box 4 folder 8 Scope and Contents

Sketch for advertisement.

Charles Ward Engineering Works, 19211924 box 4 folder 9 Scope and Contents

Steamer Natchez and water tube boilers.

Harlan, manufacturing German diesel, "Moby Dick", 1923 July box 4 folder 10 18

Harlan, manufacturing German diesel, "Moby Dick", 1923 July box 11 folder 24 18

Harlan, government dredge, 1923 November 27 box 4 folder 11

Harlan, government dredge, 1923 November 27 box 11 folder 25

Harlan, plant views exteriors, before 1926 box 4 folder 12

Harlan, plant views exteriors, before 1926 box 11 folder 26

Harlan, City of Houston launch, 1926 box 4 folder 13

Harlan, City of Houston launch, 1926 box 11 folder 27

Hog Island, shipyard views exteriors, 1921 February 16 box 4 folder 14

Hog Island, shipyard views exteriors, 1921 February 16 box 11 folder 28

Bethlehem Mining Corporation division, 19241929

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Title/Description Instances Elmsworth, mines and miners houses, 1924 July 10-1924 July box 4 folder 15 11

Elmsworth, mines and miners houses, 1924 July 10-1924 July box 11 folder 29 11

Preston, mine #27 track work, 1924 box 4 folder 16

Preston, mine #27 track work, 1924 box 11 folder 30

Preston, mine #27 and village views, 1924 September 6 box 4 folder 17

Preston, mine #27 and village views, 1924 September 6 box 11 folder 31

Preston, loading car, duck bill loading equipment, 1929 July 23 box 4 folder 18

Preston, mine #26 track work, 1929 July 23 box 11 folder 32

Marion, mine #42, 1929 July 22 box 11 folder 33

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Exhibits Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances Midvale Steel and ordnance Company, various exhibits, box 4 folder 19 1919-1922 Scope and Contents

Includes: United Railway Appliances exhibition; American Railway Assembly exhibition, and First Heat Treaters Show.

Exhibits album #1, 1919 June-1924 December box 8 Scope and Content

Exhibits of Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co., Cambria Steel Company, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Includes: - Page 28- George Atwell Richardson photographs 1969.082

H.O. Williams and George Atwell Richardson, and George Atwell Richardson with Mr. Jennings and Edward A. Richardson.

Exhibits album #2, 1925 March-1926 December box 9 Scope and Content

Bethlehem Steel Corporation exhibits.

Bethlehem Steel Company, auxiliary locomotive exhibit, 1926 box 4 folder 20 Scope and Contents

American Railway Convention, Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Metlab Co. plant and products exhibits, circa 1930s box 4 folder 21

George Atwell Richardson, Metlab employee ID portrait, circa box 4 folder 22 1941

Metlab Co. exhibits, circa 1955 box 4 folder 23 Scope and Contents

Aircraft Heat Treating Machinery, Philadelphia Company.

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Other steel and coal companies Scope and Contents

Title/Description Instances De Bardeleben Coal Corporation, frogs, switches, and graham box 11 folder 34 flange, 1928 July 30

Eastern Manufacturing Co., pulp and paper plant, 1923 May 10 box 4 folder 24 Scope and Contents

South Brewer, Maine.

Eastern Manufacturing Co., pulp and paper plant, 1923 May 10 box 11 folder 35

Eastern Manufacturing Co., pulp plant, 1923 May 11 box 4 folder 25

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Lincoln, Maine.

Eastern Manufacturing Co., pulp plant, 1923 May 11 box 11 folder 36 Scope and Contents

Lincoln, Maine.

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #1, 1922 March box 4 folder 26 23

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #1, 1922 March box 11 folder 37 23

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #2, 1922 April box 4 folder 27 16

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #2, 1922 April box 11 folder 38 16

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #3, 1922 April box 4 folder 28 30

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #3, 1922 April box 11 folder 39 30

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #4, 1922 July 22 box 4 folder 29

Fayro Machine Co., construction progress report #4, 1922 July 22 box 11 folder 40

Hawk's Nest, West Virginia coal mine, 1928 October box 11 folder 41

Hudson Coal Co., track work, 1929 November box 11 folder 42

Jamison Coal and Coke Co., plant views exteriors, 1918 June 28 box 4 folder 30

Jamison Coal and Coke Co., plant views exteriors, 1918 June 28 box 11 folder 43

Jamison Coal and Coke Co., #1 slick mine tie installation, 1918 box 4 folder 31 June 29

Jamison Coal and Coke Co., #1 slick mine tie installation, 1918 box 11 folder 44 June 29

Link Belt Engineering Co., slide rules and machine shop, 1892 box 4 folder 32

M.A. Hanna Company, Susquehanna Collieries track work, 1928 box 4 folder 33 July 13 Scope and Content

Nanicoke, Pennsylvania.

M.A. Hanna Company, Susquehanna Collieries track work, 1928 box 11 folder 45 July 13

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Scope and Content

Nanicoke, Pennsylvania.

M.A. Hanna Company, mine #9 track work, 1930 November 6 box 11 folder 46 Scope and Contents

St. Clairsvile, Ohio.

Miller Lock Co., factory views box 6 folder 1003-1010 Scope and Content

Includes: press room, tool room, store room, voucher rack, lee recorder and feed water heater, and coal scale.

Oak Hill Coal Co., dispatch house, 1928 June 19 box 4 folder 34 Scope and Contents

Minersville, Pennsylvania.

Penn Iron Mining Co., plant views exteriors, 1930 August box 4 folder 35 24-1930 August 28

Penn Iron Mining Co., plant views exteriors, 1930 August box 11 folder 47 24-1930 August 28

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