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Caption: In 2006, Pennsylvania State Museum photographer Don Giles took more than 2,000 photographs of active and abandoned steel mills across the Commonwealth, including this image of an open hearth furnace in Bethlehem.
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Caption: In 1995, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation ceased steelmaking in Bethlehem, PA., ending more than 140 years of metal production in that city.
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Caption: For generations, the Carrie Blast Furnaces provided the great Homestead mills across the Monongahela River with the iron that Homestead used to make steel. In the 1990s the Homestead mills were torn down to make room for a shopping center and apartments. The fate of what remains of the abandoned Carrie furnaces is still undetermined.
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Caption: A landmark of American industrial history, the Edgar Thomson Works in 2005 employed 900 people and produced 2.8 million tons of steel, about to 28 percent of U.S. Steel's production.
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Caption: Seamless tube production continues in Pennsylvania. A subsidiary of the NS Group, Inc., Koppel Steel manufactures seamless tubular products used in drilling, exploration, and transmission of oil and natural gas at its 200-acre plant in Koppell and it 20-acre plant in Ambridge, PA.
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Caption: Koppel Steel making seamless tubes for natural gas industries.
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Caption: When the Bethlehem Steel Corporation shut down the massive Bethlehem mill complex in 1995, whole sections of the plant were simply abandoned. In this "welfare room," steelworkers used to lock their valuables in suspended baskets and other containers to protect them while they were on the job.
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Caption: From the 1930s into the 1980s, American steelworkers were a powerful political force. The collapse of the steel industry led to major transformations in Pennsylvania politics as well as the state's economy.
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Caption: In 1995 the Bethlehem Steel Corporation ceased steelmaking in Bethlehem, PA., ending more than 140 years of metal production in that city.
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