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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: July 28, 2013
Caption: Making Molds for Pig Iron
Additional Description: The bar molds resembled a sow nursing her piglets, hence the term "pig iron." Pig iron was used to manufacture items such as firebacks and cannon shot or was further processed into wrought iron at a forge. Pittsburg PAClose-up of photo on marker
Submitted: August 3, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p249230
File Size: 0.963 Megabytes

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