Making Steel

Authors: Thomas J. Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology, with contributions by Charles Hardy III and Dan Cupper.

Image Research, Rights, and Preparation: Marie Brown Wilson and Charles Hardy III

Captions: Charles Hardy III, with the assistance of Thomas Neville, and Marie Brown Wilson.

Image Galleries: Marie Brown Wilson

Interactive: James Booth (designer), and Don Giles, (photographer), The State Museum of Pennsylvania.

Videos: Video courtesy of PBS 39, Rivers of Steel, and WITF, Inc.
Audio elements: WITF, Inc.
Related Attractions: Kim Samilo

Digital Content Ingestion: Russ Neff and Marie Brown Wilson

Related Attractions: Kim Similo


Lesson Plans:
Elementary School:
Men of Steel, , by Diane Miller, Carrie Curtis, and Adrienne Deitch

Middle School:
Roebling and Suspension Bridges: A Thread of Steel, by Carrie Curtis and Verlin Curtis

High School:
Discovering and Covering the Battle of Homestead, by Carrie Curtis


Acknowledgements:
Allentown Art Museum
Alton Tobey Collection
American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Terence Vincent Powderly Photographic Prints
American Premier Underwriters, Inc
Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia
Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Archives and Labor Collection, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Capitol Preservation Committee and
John Rudy Photography
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Columbia University Libraries
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Museum of Art
Chester County Historical Society
Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State Fayette, Uniontown, Pa.
Columbia University Libraries
Corbis-Bettmann
Cumberland County Historical Society
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y.
Don Giles
Gene J. Puskar for Kennywood Entertainment
Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum, The Pennsylvania State University
Greenwood Furnace State Park, Paul Fagley
Hagley Museum and Library
Harald Finster
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Library and Archives Division
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Museums
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,
Johnstown Area Heritage Association /Heritage Discovery Center
Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, England
Kentucky Geological Survey University of Kentucky
LaVonne R. Hanlon
Latrobe Historical Society
Library Company of Philadelphia
Linderman Library, Lehigh University
Lukens Steel
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moravian Historical Society, Pennsylvania
Moravian Archives, Pennsylvania
Mt. Pleasant Historical Society Archives
N. Lee Stevens
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
National Portrait Gallery
New York Historical Society
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine and Staff
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pennsylvania State Archives and Staff
Pennsylvania State Museum and Staff
Pennsylvania State University Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Reading Public Museum
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area
Robert Shetterly,
Roebling Collection, Institute Archives and Special Collections, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thompson D. Smith
United Mine Workers of America, Stapleton Library, Special Collections, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
United States Department of Labor
U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C
Victorian Vandergrift Museum and Historical Society
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
West Overton Museums, Scottdale, Pa.