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     Stock pile of coal and iron ore, Hanna Furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan     
Cleaning out loose coke after removing a door, preparatory to putting door back, Hanna Furnaces, Great Lakes Steel 
  
 
 
Coke being pushed into a quenching car, Hanna Furnaces, Great Lakes Steel        
Coal tower atop coke ovens, Hanna Furnaces, Great Lakes Steel     
         Hanna Furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan.  General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square  building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder  belt and then transferred to a storage place on top of the coke oven.  The coal is then dropped into three inverted bottle-like containers and  from there fed directly into the coke ovens.

   Coal feeder on tip of coke ovens, Hanna Furnace, Great Lakes Steel           
     Coal tower atop coal ovens, Hanna Furnaces, Great Lakes Steel     
           Coal pusher apparatus with coal ovens, Hanna Furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation
  I lifted them into my Furnaces; to form the spiritual sword.
     That lays open the hidden heart...
William Blake: from Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820)
 
   
    Photos  by Arthur Siegel, Detroit, Michigan, November 1942 (Farm Security  Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of  Congress)
 
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