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Title: Side of a steel building
Date(s): 1950/1960, 1950, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0723
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Engine block
Date(s): 1944?, 1944
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'WWII ca. 1944. For U.S. Navy small craft.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0732
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Fireboxes
Date(s): 1910/1920, 1910, 1920
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Two eight section fireboxes for Texas & Pacific RR. Two eleven section fireboxes for Frisco Lines. One twenty section firebox for Western Maryland RR.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0715
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: World's largest commercial galvanizing kettle
Date(s): 1958-08-25
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0739
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Naval Research Laboratory's Radio Telescope Antenna
Date(s): 1966
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Sugar Grove, W.Va. Lukens LT-75 high strength, low temperature plate steel used for main weldments. 1966 Lukens annual report.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0710
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Walt Whitman Bridge, bearing plates
Date(s): 1940/1960, 1940, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0730
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Texas Towers
Date(s): 1960?, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water.' 'Lukens products find many interesting applications within the fields they serve. For example, Monel clad cylinders have gone into construction of the first man-made radar island that is part of the Continental Radar Warning System of the United States...
Show moreWritten on verso: 'Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water.' 'Lukens products find many interesting applications within the fields they serve. For example, Monel clad cylinders have gone into construction of the first man-made radar island that is part of the Continental Radar Warning System of the United States. Designated as the 'Texas Towers,' the off-shore islands will extend eventually from Newfoundland to Norfolk. Lukens furnished monel clad leggings for each of the three permanent legs to provide corrosion resistance against the action of the sea water.'
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Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0713
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Water tower
Date(s): 1955
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Lukens 1955 annual report. A gleaming water tower made of Lukens stainless-clad steel plates is an attractive landmark for a large corporation's multi-million dollar technical center near Detroit. The tower, which is ellipsoid in shape or similar to a child's toy top, is 140 ft. high. The part which holds the water is 33 feet high and 46 ft. diameter. Three hollow columns which support the ellipsoid also are constructed of Lukens stainless clad steel plates.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0718
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Caustic storage vats
Date(s): 1955
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Caustic storage vats of nichle-clad steel enable a chemical producer to ship high temperature soda in the tanker below. Lukens annual report 1955.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0735
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Handling of pilot model landing craft
Date(s): 1960?, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0734
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Texas Towers
Date(s): 1960?, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water.' 'Lukens products find many interesting applications within the fields they serve. For example, Monel clad cylinders have gone into construction of the first man-made radar island that is part of the Continental Radar Warning System of the United States...
Show moreWritten on verso: 'Famed 'Texas Towers' of the Continental Radar Warning System wear leggings of Lukens Monel clad steel which reach from beneath the water level to above the splash level to provide protection against action of the salt water.' 'Lukens products find many interesting applications within the fields they serve. For example, Monel clad cylinders have gone into construction of the first man-made radar island that is part of the Continental Radar Warning System of the United States. Designated as the 'Texas Towers,' the off-shore islands will extend eventually from Newfoundland to Norfolk. Lukens furnished monel clad leggings for each of the three permanent legs to provide corrosion resistance against the action of the sea water.'
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Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0711
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Locomotive boiler dome
Date(s): 1950/1960, 1950, 1960
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0714
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: San Francisco-Oakland Bridge
Date(s): 1930/1940, 1930, 1940
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written in corner: 'As a participating member of Bridge Builders, Inc., Dravo joined with several other firms to construct the substructure for the East Bay Crossing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0727
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: World Trade Center under construction in New York, N.Y.
Date(s): 1969
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0719
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Westinghouse cylinder blade ring
Date(s): 1957-05-13
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'LW #561 505-1. Lukenweld Bldg. D.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0696
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Tank car
Date(s): 1955
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0717
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steel plates
Date(s): 1920?, 1920
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0704
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Trifurcation at Yards Creeke Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project
Date(s): 1966
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'This huge branch connection, called a trifurcation, at the Yards Creek Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project in northern NJ was fabricated by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. using Lukens Penstock Steel. The all-welded, three-way connection must withstand great pressures as it breaks a single column of water into three branch flows. It's 'C' girders are 3 1/2 inches thick and its shell 2' thick. Lukens 1966 annual report.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0709
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Tank car
Date(s): 1955
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'The first nichle-clad steel plates rolled commercially came out of Lukens in 1930. Some of them were used to line this railroad tank car which, after 25 years of service, continues to transport a highly corrosive chemical between Newark, N.J. and St. Louis. 1955 Lukens annual report.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0716
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steam turbine - inner casting
Date(s): 1969-01
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'General Electric, Schenectady. 14 x 11 x 15 approx size. 101,000 lbs.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0708
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Gas storage tanks
Date(s): 1920?, 1920
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0654
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steel panels on façade of World Trade Center in New York, N.Y.
Date(s): 1969
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0720
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steel rings
Date(s): 1920/1940, 1920, 1940
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0738
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: Steel panels on façade of World Trade Center in New York, N.Y.
Date(s): 1969
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Description: Written on verso: 'Steel panels fabricated from Lukens steel plates making facade of World Trade Center, NYC, 1969. 1969 Lukens annual report.'
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0722
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

Title: World Trade Center under construction in New York, N.Y.
Date(s): 1969
Creator: Lukens Steel Company
Collection ID: Lukens Steel Company photographs (Accession 1972.360)
Hagley ID: 72360_0721
Collection: Lukens Steel Company photographs

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