LEHIGH CRANE IRON WORKS IMAGES

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An artist’s sketch of the works in 1840. Published in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38, Feb. 1891

An artist’s rendition of the Crane in its early days. Hagley Museum Library – Crane Iron Works files.

Another artist’s rendition featuring the Whitwell stoves used to create the hot blast by regenerative heat exchangers. Hagley Museum Library – Crane Iron Works files.

An early photograph – undated. Hagley Museum Library – Crane Iron Works files.

The Crane in 1860. Courtesy, The Canal Museum, Easton, Pa.

The Crane in 1897. From Bartholomew and Metz, p. 127 - Courtesy Hugh Moore Historical Park, Easton Pa.

Undated. View looking north with engine house on the left and furnaces on the right. Hagley Museum Library – Crane Iron Works files.

Believed to be taken in late 1860s or early 1870s. (Lehigh County Historical Society). The structure with the rounded roof is the engine house which contained the blowing engines.

Date Unknown. The engine house is similar to the above, except cupola has been removed. The stacks have been rearranged. Courtesy, The Pennsylvania State Archives

1891 - An artist’s sketch published in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 38, Feb. 1891

From the April 10, 1903 special edition of The Catasauqua Dispatch. Same view as photo above, but the three (Whitwell?) stoves on the left are visible.

From the Hagley Museum Collection. Ca. 1900.

A 1906 postcard view.

This photo appears in Roberts et al, History Of Lehigh County Pennsylvania, 1914. It is interesting to note the difference in the arrangement of the equipment among the photos. One blast furnace along with its three Whitwell stoves (used to produce the hot blast) is evident as is the engine house.

From Lambert & Reinhard, 1914. Here the canal is seen with the tracks of the Jersey Central RR to the right. The river would be to the right of that. The trestle carrying the cross-over track from the Lehigh Valley RR is in the foreground.

Postcard image from the same period as the above two images.

Another postcard – dated 1908.

Photo labeled “The Empire Steel and Iron Works” believed to be from PETERS, RICHARD. Two Centuries of Iron Smelting in Pennsylvania. This would be a view from the far side of Front Street. Note the trolley tracks and the RR tracks adjacent to the street.

The ruins of the Crane in 1936 – from an aerial photograph of Catasauqua. Courtesy of the Hagley Museum Library

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