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GENERAL VIEW OF SOUTH END OF NEW KENSINGTON WORKS, LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM BLUFF ON WEST SIDE OF ALLEGHENY RIVER - Alcoa-New Kensington Works, Ninth Street to Sixteenth Street, adjacent to Allegheny River, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA
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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
GENERAL VIEW OF SOUTH END OF NEW KENSINGTON WORKS, LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM BLUFF ON WEST SIDE OF ALLEGHENY RIVER - Alcoa-New Kensington Works, Ninth Street to Sixteenth Street, adjacent to Allegheny River, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA
Description
Hall, Charles M; Aluminum Company of America; Madrid, transmitter
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Westmoreland County; New Kensington
Date 1989
date QS:P571,+1989-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,65-NEKEN,1-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The former Aluminum Company of America's (Alcoa) New Kensington Works was established in 1891 by Charles M. Hall's Pittsburgh Reduction Company, and it was this concern's first major alumninm-producing plant outside of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Reduction Company, reorganized and renamed Alcoa in 1907, was the nation's first major producer of aluminum and aluminum products.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-337
  • Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3074.photos.358374p
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