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Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.1 (ca.1863- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.2 (ca.1867- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.3 (ca.1868- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.4 (ca.1872/1874- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.5 (ca.1872/1874- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Furnace No.6 (ca.1872/1874- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Other names the works was know by: Bethlehem Iron Company Bethlehem Iron Works (ca.1875- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Rolling Mill (ca.1860- ), Bethlehem, Northampton Co. Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Northampton Co. |
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| Bethlehem Steel Plant ca.1896 A Panorama view of the Bethlehem Steel Plant from across the Lehigh River, in 1896, with the iron furnaces. Lehigh Canal is in the foreground. (Photo by William Herman Rau, Jan.21,1896. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photo Division, Washington, D.C.) |
| Bethlehem Furnaces ca.1900 Blast Furnace plant of the Bethlehem Iron Company ca.1900.
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Showing the great covered stock houses, brick hoist towers and hooded-top
furnaces. Three Cowper stoves behind the furnaces. The wooden railroad
cars antedate the modern steel cars. (photo courtesy of "Iron Smelting in Pennsylvania," ca.1921, by Richard Peters, Jr.) |
| Bethlehem Furnaces ca.1920 The modern blast furnaces of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, PA, ca.1920.
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The steel bins and skip hoists have entirely replaced the stock
handling system of the old plant. A modern stove plant of five McClure type
stoves has replacedd the cowper stoves of the old works. (photo courtesy of "Iron Smelting in Pennsylvania," ca.1921, by Richard Peters, Jr.) |
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Bethlehem Steel Mill ca.1935 Bethlehem Steel Mill & workers houses. (Photo by Walker Evans, Nov., 1835, courtesy of the Prints & Photo Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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Bethlehem Grave Yard and Steel Mill ca.1935
Grave yard above the Bethlehem Steel Mill & workers houses. (Photo by Walker Evans, Nov., 1835, courtesy of the Prints & Photo Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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