Photo of the Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, PA, very near to where I grew up.  At one time in the early 1950s, over 20,000 men and women worked in these enormous steel works in Bethlehem, which, if memory serves me correct, stretched for something like 10 miles along the Lehigh River and then back along and behind South Mountain in eastern Pennsylvania.  Many of my relatives worked there and a lot of my friends' dads.  My uncle was killed there when a blast furnace exploded in the late 1940s.

There is not much left of the plant now as the company is bankrupt and most of the steel works are slowly rusting away or are being dismantled for revitalization and development.  There has been talk of making the furnaces a museum of American industry.  This photo taken in 1992 shows the plant still a hub of activity.  This is what the industrial revolution was all about.  Photo used with permission Harald Finster.  Please check out his marvelous website with images of European and American factories and industrial works.