Bethlehem Steel Works.This image, which is part of the panoramic collection of the Library of Congress, was taken from the north bank of the Lehigh River by William Herman Rau in 1896.
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania.Walker Evans took this photograph for the Farm Security Administration from a cemetery in South Bethlehem looking north toward the works. (1935, FSI collection of Library of Congress)
Update (9/11/2019): this is what the view likes today (thanks to Google street view):
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| Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (via Google street view) |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, West of Minsi Trail Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PAJet Lowe took this picture in
Bethlehem Steel is now bankrupt, and stopped operating the Bethlehem works in 1995. Most of the site is now being developed as a casino by the Sands Corporation of Las Vegas.
2 comments:
I think I shot this in 1979.
Jet
Jet was right. He made a couple of trips to Bethlehem. But this one was in 1979. Here's the original set: 1979 pictures at HABS/HAER site.
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