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This sepia colored photograph shows the zinc smelters of Pittsburg, Kansas. The town of Pittsburg became an early zinc smelting center because of the proximity from the large coal fields and rich zinc mines in the Tri-State Mining District of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Date: July 15, 1909
Item Number: 208297
Call Number: FK2.C11 P.3 MaPit *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208297
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Industry
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Manufacturing Facility
Built Environment - Function - Industry/Processing/Extraction - Processing Site
Built Environment - Materials - Metal - Zinc
Business and Industry - Manufacturing - Metals - Zinc
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1909
Environment - Natural resources - Zinc
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Pittsburg
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Regions - Tri-State Mining District
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Photographs
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