Steel industry and trade

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographic slides from different cities in Indiana ranging from circa 1950s to 1960s regarding buildings, monuments, businesses, other structures, and urban and rural scenes.

Scope and Contents This collection includes three ledgers from the Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company. The first ledger includes invoices from September 1898-June 1899, the second from July 1899-December 1900, the third from November 1904-March 1905. Supply invoices from Clemens Vonnegut Hardware, Machinery and Tools, Tanner and Sullivan Tinner Suppliers, William B. Binford Engravers, Zaiser-Cathcart Company Seals and Rubber Stamps, as well as Crescent Steel Company can be found within the ledgers among...

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs from historian Powell A. Moore in Lake County, Indiana ranging from 1883 to 1946 and undated, regarding the cities of Gary and Hammond and other places in Lake County, as well as local industries, such as meat packing and oil refining.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of Richard Sealock's typewritten notes taken directly from Steel City's Culture: An Interpretation of the History of Gary, Indiana, a comprehensive report written by William Dale Fisher in 1941 while a senior student at Yale University. Sealock compiled the highlights from Fisher's report in circa 1948 from a copy in the Gary Public Library collection. The author of the report was most likely former United States diplomat William...