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Images from McClure's 1894, World's Work 1905, and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 1891

McClure's 1894

A huge crane made an ingot
A Few Projecting Spires and Chimneys Indicated a Town
Beginning the Day
Breaker Boy
Bridge and Boat
The Converting Mill
The Converting Mill: The Converter in Blast
Corner of Library and of Dinner-room
Crossing the Monongahela
Feeding the Furnace
The Ferry-boat and it's Captain
He Who Worked at the Drill Engaged in Conversation with our Guide
In a Large Room Sat the Little Slate-pickers
In the Converting Mill "Pouring"
In the "Finished Beams" Yard
In the Plate Mill: Salting the Plate
In the Plate Mill
In the "Rouching" or "Break-down" Mill
Last Sight of the Breakers from the Town
Lining a Furnace
Mills as Seen from the Backyard of a Boarding-house
Miners Going to and from Work
Reading
The Breaker
The Dead Black Walls Slipped Swiftly By
The Engineer
The "Fan" and Entrance to Shaft
The Main Gangway in a Coal Mine
The Oldest "Cottage" in Homestead
The Toothless Saw Cutting Beams Simply by Friction
Train at Platform
Train in Station
Two Men Crouching where the Roof of the Passage Came Near to Meeting the Flood
Up the Street from the Ferry Landing
Whoa, Molly
Workman Warming his Dinner on a Hot Brick

World's Work 1905

A Promise of Trouble
Bundle Boys as substitutes for Wagons
Many Police to Protect a few Wagons
Swearing in Special Deputy Sheriffs

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 1891

Drawings by L. L. Roush
Ready to Start for the Pits

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