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| View Original: | A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products LCCN2015631994.tif.tiff (4912x4699) | |||
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| Keywords: A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products LCCN2015631994.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Founded by Ernest T Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation In 1983 employees agreed to purchase the operation from National Steel and form into an employee-owned corporation In the last years of its life Weirton withered away and filed for bankruptcy protection on May 19 2003 The International Steel Group purchased Weirton and formed ISG Weirton Inc in 2004 ISG was sold to Mittal Steel which in the two-thousand-teens was in the process of downsizing the mill ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015631994 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/31900/31919a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 31919 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 31919 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||