Pig-iron Smelting

ID: SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-3809]

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Glass negatives

Date: 1880

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 011, Image No. MAH-3809

Summary

Casting-house floor of charcoal blast furnace, showing beds of molten cast-iron that has just been tapped from the furnace and cast into pigs.

Collected by curator of metallurgy and economic geology, Frederic P. Dewey, to illustrate metallurgical processes and mineral resources of the United States. Description from "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum," page xv.
USNM No. 54633.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 011, Image No. MAH-3809

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Glass negatives

SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-3809]

5 x 8;