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A view of the Pittsburg Zinc Company's smelter operation in Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg became an early zinc smelting center because of its proximity to the large coal fields and rich zinc mines in the Tri-State Mining District of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
Item Number: 211094
Call Number: FK2.C11 P.3 Ma.Pit *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211094
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
Date - 1910s
Environment - Natural resources - Zinc
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
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 - Postcards
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