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Title
American
Steel
and
Wire
-
aerial
Subject
American Steel & Wire Co.
American Steel and Wire Company
United States Steel Corporation. American Steel & Wire Division
U.S. Steel Corporation
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
shows
an
aerial
view
of the
American
Steel
and
Wire
Company
plant
. The
urban
sprawl
of
Cleveland
, the
Terminal
Tower
and
downtown
and
even
Lake
Erie
all
in the
background
.
American
Steel
&
Wire
Company
was
founded
around
1899
by
Elbert
Henry
Gary
,
who
purchased
several
competing
barbed
wire
companies
in
order
to
limit
competition
and
drive
up
prices
. In
1901
,
American
Steel
and
Wire
became
a
subsidiary
of the
U.S
.
Steel
Company
. Their
main
Cleveland
facilities
were
American
Works
,
Central
Furnaces
and
Dock
and
Newburgh
Works
. In
1924
, the
division’s
national
headquarters
moved
to the
Rockefeller
Building
in
Cleveland
.
Starting
in the
1940s
,
renovations
begun
to
modernized
the
old
building
,
which
dated
to
1857
with the
founding
of
Jones
&
Company
in
Newburgh
Township
(suburb
south
of
Cleveland)
. The
American
Steel
&
Wire
division
of
U.S
.
Steel
dissolved
in
1964
and the
Cleveland
offices
moved
to
Pittsburgh
. In
1986
,
American
Steel
&
Wire
Corporation
purchased
the
Cuyahoga
Works
(same
location
, but a
consolidated
version
of the
aforementioned
facilities)
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
SA1039AV_B08F02_007_001.tif
Image Height
5059
Image Width
6300
File Size
127017186 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2010-04-30
Date modified
2010-05-24
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