LEHIGH CRANE IRON WORKS IMAGES
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An artistÕs sketch of the works in 1840.
Published in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38, Feb. 1891
An artistÕs
rendition of the Crane in its early days. Hagley Museum
Library – Crane Iron Works files.
Another artistÕs rendition featuring the
Whitwell stoves used to create the hot blast by regenerative heat exchangers. Hagley Museum
Library – Crane Iron Works files.
An early photograph – undated. Hagley Museum Library – Crane
Iron Works files.
The Crane in 1860.
Courtesy, The Canal Museum, Easton, Pa.
The Crane in 1897. From Bartholomew and Metz, p.
127 - Courtesy Hugh Moore Historical
Park, Easton Pa.
Undated. View looking north with engine
house on the left and furnaces on the right. Hagley Museum Library – Crane Iron Works files.
Believed to be taken in late 1860s or
early 1870s. (Lehigh County Historical Society). The structure with the rounded
roof is the engine house which contained the blowing engines.
Date Unknown. The engine house is similar
to the above, except cupola has been removed. The stacks have been
rearranged. Courtesy,
The Pennsylvania State Archives
1891 - An artistÕs sketch published in
Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38, Feb. 1891
From the April 10, 1903 special edition
of The Catasauqua Dispatch.
Same view as photo above, but the three (Whitwell?) stoves on the left are
visible.
From the Hagley Museum Collection. Ca.
1900.
A 1906 postcard view.
This photo appears in Roberts et al, History
Of Lehigh County Pennsylvania, 1914.
It is interesting to note the difference in the arrangement of the equipment
among the photos. One blast furnace along with its three Whitwell stoves (used
to produce the hot blast) is evident as is the engine house.
From Lambert & Reinhard, 1914.
Here the canal is seen with the tracks of the Jersey Central RR to the right.
The river would be to the right of that. The trestle carrying the cross-over
track from the Lehigh Valley RR is in the foreground.
Postcard image from the same period as
the above two images.
Another postcard – dated 1908.
Photo labeled ŌThe Empire Steel and Iron WorksĶ believed to be from PETERS, RICHARD. Two Centuries of Iron Smelting in Pennsylvania. This would be a view from the far side of Front Street. Note the trolley tracks and the RR tracks adjacent to the street.
The ruins of the Crane in 1936 – from an aerial
photograph of Catasauqua. Courtesy of the Hagley Museum Library
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