South Chicago Works coke plant employees   Save
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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)