Eliza: Remembering a Pittsburgh Steel Mill

By Mark Perrott

For 122 years, the massive Jones & Laughlin Steel blast furnace, nicknamed "Eliza," belched fire and smoke into the Pittsburgh skies. It employed over 5,000 people and symbolized the Steel City's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943231094
• ISBN13: 9780943231099
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Howell Pr
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Stunning look at a lost icon

Now gone, the Eliza furnaces of Jones and Laughlin once had a place on the Pittsburgh skyline. Prior to, and including their demolition, Mark Perrott snuck through the fences to record these pictures, which are some of the finest industrial photographs published in a long time. Some of the most moving photograph show the areas where men and women worked, and how ghostly those areas are when the workers have gone. In some photos, it looks almost like some sort of biological weapon or neutron bomb has killed off the workers; everything looks as though they just walked away, and the mill awaits their presence. But of course, they would never return, as the mill was turned into scrap, and probably fed into another company's steelmaking furnaces. Interspersed with interviews of some Eliza workers, this short book has a hard impact, showing the end of a mighty industry. Well worth it.