Description: This photograph depicts a worker standing inside at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_006
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers; Blast furnaces
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts workers at a coke plant in south Chicago, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_002
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a worker standing in what appears to be a passenger elevator at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts two workers, one on a ladder, at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a worker with a hand tool at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a worker standing outside a building on a walkway at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants; Steel workers
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a coke plant in south Chicago, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F71_023
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts construction at a mill in Chicago, Illinois. A New York Central Lines railroad car is also pictured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F60_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; New York Central Railroad Company
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts equipment at a coke plant in south Chicago, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F72_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts construction at a mill in Chicago, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F60_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a pile of raw material, probably crushed limestone, at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. The plant can be seen in the distance. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F71_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: This photograph is of a coke plant in south Chicago, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F71_019
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)