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Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Rob Scumaci said:

  Great scale in this photo. Again, excellent lighting as well.

• JayneLM, Flickr fickle said:

  The light in this photo is wonderful - it almost looks like a theatre set.

• John said:

  -And if you look in the lower right hand corner you can see the source of the lighting.

• joseph webb said:

  So SICK!!!

• Norman Gates said:

  these wires must carry thousands of amperes of current, just like the electric steel smelters.

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place

from The Library of Congress

• Shaun C. Williams said:

  This is beautiful! It's so nice to see a color picture(!) of this facility, looking all clean and well-maintained in its heyday.

• Chris Smart said:

  these need to be added to the flickr map

• vixengal said:

  Let me correct peaceocake's comment. The company which was bought by a Russian firm was Rouge Steel, originally part of Ford Motor Company, and is approximately 3 miles from this facility. It's now Severstal Steel. Great Lakes Steel (pictured) was in bankruptcy when it was bought by US Steel in 2003, and now known as the "Great Lakes Works". The plant is currently in operation, with many of the same employees. This photo shows a portion of the ironmaking facility, located on Zug Island. The gas holder was torn down years ago.

• BISassistant said:

  My dad worked at Great Lakes Steel from sometime in the 1950's to about early 1970's. He was hurt in an explosion there on Memorial Day, 1972. I have looked everywhere on the internet for info on that explosion and cannot find anything. Does anyone remember that explosion and have any info on it? Thanks.

English furnace woman in iron works (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  Published in a WWI pamphlet: "Carry on" :British women's work in war time. archive.org/stream/carryonbritishwo00unse#page/8/mode/2up