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David Plowden Steel Manufacturing Photographs

American History Museum

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Object Details

Scope and Contents note

Photographs documenting the steel industry. Subjects include blast furnaces, steel mills, ore barges, and other related subjects.
sova.nmah.ac.1020

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8c7caeaf5-439e-4f6f-b433-0d2d3e1b6b9b

Creator

Plowden, David

Former owner

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

Topic

Blast furnaces
Steel industry and trade

Provenance

Collection donated by David Plowden, 1985.
Donated by David Plowden to the Museum's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (now Division of Work and Industry) in 1984.

Creator

Plowden, David

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David Plowden Steel Manufacturing Photographs

Biographical/Historical note

David Plowden (1932-) is an American photographer of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands, and small towns.

Extent

0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)

Date

1981

Ownership and Custodial History

Transferred from the Division of Work and Industry to the Archives Center in 2007.

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Identifier

NMAH.AC.1020

Type

Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs

Citation

David Plowden Steel Manufacturing Photographs, 1981, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged into one series.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2018.

Rights

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Genre/Form

Photographs -- 20th century

Restrictions

Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Related Materials

Materials in the Archives Center David Plowden North American Bridge Photographs Photographs Plowden took of bridges, aqueducts and viaducts all over the United States and a few in Canada. The photographs are of various types of bridges: truss, suspension, covered. Some photographs feature close-up details of architectural elements, such as arches, chains, towers and ornamentation. Materials at Other Organizations Chicago History Museum David Plowden photograph collection Includes photographs of steel mills and coke plants, automobile assembly factories, oil refineries, printing plants, food processing plants, and other industries in Chicago's Central Manufacturing District and other locations in the Chicago metropolitan area and northern Indiana. Includes transportation yards for railroads and trucks, and some scenes of the Calumet River and the Indiana Harbor. Many buildings show the demise of industry in these locations. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library David Plowden photographs and papers, 1948-2011 This collection consists of photographs and papers that document the work of David Plowden as a photographer and author, 1948-2011. Buffalo History Museum David Plowden photographic collection, 1968-1985 featuring Buffalo waterfront scenes, grain elevators, steel mills, and Great Lakes steamers. Also includes photographs of places other than Buffalo. Library of Congress Photographs of architecture, landscapes, and transportation in the United States and Canada hese large-format photographs show details of vernacular architecture buildings such as barns; rural, small town, industrial, and urban landscape scenes; and transportation (railroads, ferries, steamships, and roadways).
NMAH.AC.1020
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Record ID

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Making test B.O.F.

Taconite Plant, Bolling, Michigan

Burlington Northern Railroad, Alloeuz Ore Docks, Superior, Wisconsin

Blast furnace

Rolling stand 80" Hot Strip Mill

Rolling Mills, Steel Mill

Steel Mills, stock yards and ore barges

Coke oven quenching towers

Blast furnace stoves

Slagging ingots

Steel Mills, stock yards and ore barges

Blast furnace

Finished coils of steel

Finished coil of steel

Blast furnaces

Puddler blast furnace

Repairing refractory material with granite

80" Hot Strip Mill conveyor table

80" Hot Strip Mill

Burlington Northern Railroad, Alloeuz Ore Docks, Superior, Wisconsin

Open hearth furnace, charging hot metal

Taconite pellets

Teeming ignots

Teeming ignots


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