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[Photographs of Construction at the United Lead Company Plant in Granite City, Illinois]
[Photographs of Construction at the United Lead Company Plant in Granite City, Illinois]
39 original photographs documenting construction at the Hoyt Metal Company, one of three firms comprising the consolidated United Lead Company's approximately 30 acre industrial campus in Granite City, Illinois. The present images detail construction of three buildings by contractors Fruin and Conlon of St. Louis: a "Welfare Building" ; "Blue Lead Building" and "Office Building," per generous print notations matching bid announcements in the June 17, 1916 issue of trade magazine THE AMERICAN CONTRACTOR (pp. 57).
The photos provide clear and detailed views of construction processes, finished buildings, labor (including many African-American workers), and the plant's distinct shot tower which produced lead pellets for shotgun shells. A lead plant was in operation on the site from about 1900 to about 1983. It has been designated a super fund site by the EPA with lead contamination directly impacting Granite City and the neighboring communities of Madison and Venice.
An evocative group of dated and notated photographs relevant to the St. Louis region's rich and complicated history with lead mining and processing, industrial pollution, etc...
[Photography] : [Industry] : [Engineering and Construction]. [Photographs of Construction at the United Lead Company Plant in Granite City, Illinois]. [Granite City, Illinois]: (ca. 1916). 39 black and white silver print photographs. Each approximately 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" on single weight, unbranded paper. 21 prints with notations over image areas in neat, thin white ink. All housed in an original processor's envelope. Prints with mild, unobtrusive corner curling, envelope lightly tattered. Overall group very good.
39 original photographs documenting construction at the Hoyt Metal Company, one of three firms comprising the consolidated United Lead Company's approximately 30 acre industrial campus in Granite City, Illinois. The present images detail construction of three buildings by contractors Fruin and Conlon of St. Louis: a "Welfare Building" ; "Blue Lead Building" and "Office Building," per generous print notations matching bid announcements in the June 17, 1916 issue of trade magazine THE AMERICAN CONTRACTOR (pp. 57).
The photos provide clear and detailed views of construction processes, finished buildings, labor (including many African-American workers), and the plant's distinct shot tower which produced lead pellets for shotgun shells. A lead plant was in operation on the site from about 1900 to about 1983. It has been designated a super fund site by the EPA with lead contamination directly impacting Granite City and the neighboring communities of Madison and Venice.
An evocative group of dated and notated photographs relevant to the St. Louis region's rich and complicated history with lead mining and processing, industrial pollution, etc...
[Photography] : [Industry] : [Engineering and Construction]. [Photographs of Construction at the United Lead Company Plant in Granite City, Illinois]. [Granite City, Illinois]: (ca. 1916). 39 black and white silver print photographs. Each approximately 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" on single weight, unbranded paper. 21 prints with notations over image areas in neat, thin white ink. All housed in an original processor's envelope. Prints with mild, unobtrusive corner curling, envelope lightly tattered. Overall group very good.