Unpaved street near Weirton Steel Mill
date: label: Date made
content: 1937
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: At the end of 1936, Mydans left the Resettlement Administration and began working for <i>LIFE</i> magazine. One of his early assignments took him to the steel mill at Weirton, West Virginia. Influenced by his time in the R.A., he concentrated on the workers' living conditions and their work practices.
label: Description
content: During the early 1900s, Ernest Tener Weir built modern steel mills in the upper Ohio River valley between Ohio and West Virginia. A town was built above the valley. It depended solely on Ernest Tener Weir for electricity, water, gas, sewage, and paving. The town had no municipal government of its own and no police force or fire department, except the company's. In <i>LIFE</i> (Sept. 13, 1937) the caption that accompanies this photograph reads: <i>Like most Weirton streets, Avenue B is not paved and its worker homes are little brightened by sooty shrubs and vines</i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Weirton, Weirton Steel Mill
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Life Magazine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.022
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm