Photo, Print, Drawing Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company Furnaces, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-second Street, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL Drawings from Survey HAER AL-3

Title

• Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company Furnaces, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-second Street, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Other Title

• Sloss Furnaces Birmingham Industrial District

Names

• Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Babcock & Wilcox
• Casey-Hedges Company
• Rust Company
• Sloss Company
• Cooperative Experimental Coke & Iron Company
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad
• DeBardeleben, Henry Fairchild
• Pratt Coal & Coke Company
• Guthrie, B F
• Sloss, Fred
• Sloss, Maclin
• Sloss Furnace Company
• Hargreaves, Harry
• Sloss Iron & Steel Company
• Johnston, Joseph Forney
• Johnson, John W
• Maben, John Campbell
• Coalburg Coal & Coke Company
• Seddon, Thomas O
• Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company
• McQueen, J W
• Dovel, James Pickering
• U.S. Pipe
• Whitwell, Thomas
• Birmingham Historical Society, sponsor
• Griffin, Douglas L., project manager
• DeLony, Eric N., project manager
• Schaaf, Roland David, project manager
• Anderson, Katharine Dougall, delineator
• Campbell, Deborah Ann, delineator
• Hunt, James Y., delineator
• Stammer, Patti, delineator
• Kulik, Gary B., historian
• Boucher, Jack E., photographer
• Lowe, Jet, photographer
• Diesing, David H., photographer

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

• -  furnaces
• -  brick buildings
• -  iron industry
• -  steel industry
• -  metallurgical industry
• -  recreation
• -  urban growth
• -  economic development
• -  railroad companies
• -  immigrants
• -  laborers
• -  prisoners
• -  chemistry
• -  strikes
• -  migration
• -  adaptive reuse
• -  moving of structures
• -  galleries & museums
• -  Alabama--Jefferson County--Birmingham

Latitude / Longitude

• 33.52213,-92.78894

Notes

• -  Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-82, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their close in 1970. The Sloss Furnaces, the nucleus of an integrated ironmaking system which includes extensive surviving remnants of coal and iron ore mines, quarries, and coke ovens, are the most visible symbol of the Birmingham District's role as the nation's leading foundry iron producer from the late-19th century until the 1960s. The blast furnaces, stoves, boilers and other structures represent the highest expression of American merchant pig iron furnace practice and design of the late 1920s. Other features such as vertical blowing engines and sand casting beds chart technological evolution at the turn of the century.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-2
• -  Survey number: HAER AL-3
• -  Building/structure dates: 1942-1964 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1970 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: after 1970- 1976 Subsequent Work
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000162

Medium

• Photo(s): 135
• Color Transparencies: 3
• Measured Drawing(s): 20
• Data Page(s): 46
• Photo Caption Page(s): 13

Call Number/Physical Location

• HAER ALA,37-BIRM,4-

Source Collection

• Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• al0249

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

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