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Casting house floor, Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, Scranton, PA, circa 1880.
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The workers in this image are guttermen, who were responsible for tapping their furnace, laying out the pig beds, and loading the solidified pigs onto rail cars.

Credit: Courtesy of the Lackawanna Historical Society and Daniel Perry

 The workers in this image are guttermen, who tapped the furnace, laid out the pig beds, and loaded the solidified pigs onto rail cars.

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