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Lackawanna Steel Mill

20th century

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A wood engraving depicting three workers working in front of multiple buildings and steam stacks comprising a steel mill. The three workers are depicted in the foreground, working on railroad tracks the run horizontally in front of the mill buildings. A locomotive is approaching on an additional line of railroad tracks running parallel to the mill. Just beneath the image are three inscriptions in pencil: [Lackawanna Steel Mill] at left, [10 imp] at center, and [James Lesesne Wells] at right.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2023.111.18

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