Crescent Steel Works

Pittsburgh.

1875 'AN AMERICAN STEEL WORKS. The Crescent Steel Works of Miller, Barr, and Parkin are located at Pittsburg, on the Allegheny River, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. They were established in 1865 by the present firm,, with the avowed intention of rivalling in the quality of their products the very best Sheffield steel makers. The methods of manufacture used in the famous Sheffield houses are exactly followed here, merit being claimed for careful and exact working rather than for any quick or patent processes. In order to insure uniformity in stock the firm have their arrangements for their fine Swedish irons so made that they import direct from the makers, and have secured to themselves an entire brand of Dannemore iron, so that in certainty of supply and quality of stock they are not second to the best houses in England. ....'

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