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Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Blast Furnaces Photographs

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Title	Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Blast Furnaces Photographs
Subject	Geography and Natural Resources Business and Labor Steel industry Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Furnaces Mills
Place	Youngstown (Ohio) Mahoning County (Ohio)
Description	These two color photographs depict Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's blast furnaces. YS&T had blast furnaces at the Harbor Works mill in Indiana and the Campbell Works mill in Youngstown. These 8" by 10" (20.32 by 25.4 cm) images are part of a larger collection of photographs that document the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company operations. These images provide powerful images of steel industry. In November of 1900 a group of fifty-five Youngstown citizens, led by James A. Campbell, raised $600,000 in capital to create the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company. Land was purchased along the Mahoning River approximately 3 miles east of downtown. Construction of the mill began immediately and in 1902, opened for production. Spectacular growth marked the company's second decade, some of it spurred on by the demand for steel caused by World War I. In 1923, YS&T purchased the Brier Hill Steel Company of Youngstown and the Steel and Tube Company of America of East Chicago. During the 1930's the company survived the Great Depression and the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike to emerge as one of the nation's leading steel producers. After relatively prosperous times in the 1950's and early 1960's, YS&T began to experience a decline. Unable to acquire the capital needed to convert its plants to the basic oxygen process, the company was forced into a merger with the Lykes Corporation in 1969. Lykes was a conglomerate, and inexperienced in the manufacturing of steel. By 1977 it was estimated that Sheet and Tube needed a $550 million infusion of capital to cover the cost modernizing their mills. On September 19, 1977, Jennings Lambeth, president of YS & T, announced that most of their Campbell Works would close. By 1979, Lykes had merged with the LTV Corporation and phased out all of its Youngstown holdings.
Creator	Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Date of Original	1965 circa
Collection	Lykes Youngstown Audio Visual Archives
Source	Audiovisual material YHC MSS0134
Submitting Institution	Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1627_1911359_006
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1627_1911359_006.tif
Image Height	1042
Image Width	1492
File Size	396.566 KB

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