Steel Giants: Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives
"This book will be of great interest to the thousands of men and women who have spent their lives working in the heavy industrial plants at the northwest part of the state." —Kenneth Schoon, author of Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan"I do love these dramatic pictures of massive machines at work, with great wheels and gears turning, with everyone in place except Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times." —Lance Trusty, author of Munster: A Centennial History"[Steel Giants] is a wonderful array of images from a time when enormous structures that poured out steel, and the people who worked within these structures, dominated the landscape." —Indiana Magazine of History, September 2010"The massive scale of transformation of Lake Michigan shoreline to the steel cities of Gary and East Chicago is evident in this collection of photographs and documents. The foreword provides historical context, and the images picture not only the industrial construction and processes for steel production, but also the people and communities that made them work." —ForeWord Reviews"Steel Giants... is 304 pages of the real history of the region and a keepsake for anyone interested in local history." —nwitimes.com, 12/7/2009