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Big Steel: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 8:24pm.
Nov. 1941. Etna, Pennsylvania. "Blast furnaces and ore at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel mills." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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This is Art!
Submitted by Old Guy on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 9:19am.
Most of these photos can be described as "documentarian." This is the first one I've seen that has a really interesting composition - that I'd be willing to hang on my wall!
Farked Again
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 5:59am.
My Hometown
Submitted by YB on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 8:49pm.
These were gone by the time I was born in 1961. My grandfather was a blacksmith for Spangs steel mill in Etna. I believe these may have been along the banks of the Allegheny River. Etna is about 8 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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