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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
The Clark Thread Company Historic District, located at 900 Passaic Avenue, East Newark, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, is a large mill complex.Begun in 1875, it was a major manufacturing site of the Clark Thread Company, the world's leading manufacturer of sewing thread, until 1935.
Blast furnaces and iron ore at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mills in 1941. Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.
Henry Clay Frick was a coke and steel magnate. [4] [5] As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in Broadford, Pennsylvania. [6]Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's In the Louvre, in 1880, [7] after moving to Pittsburgh. [6]
Conshohocken Car Works (1880–) Conshohocken, Pennsylvania [9] Cummings Car Works (1851–1876) Jersey City, New Jersey [9] Darby Corporation (1965–1989 ) Kansas City, Kansas [9] Dauphin Car Works (1880s) Dauphin, Pennsylvania [9] Davenport and Bridges (1834 – c. 1856) Cambridgeport, Massachusetts [9]
It is located along the banks of the since-filled Morris Canal in the Lafayette Section of Jersey City, New Jersey. [1] The older buildings were originally constructed in 1860 as part of the Passaic Zinc Works, with the later buildings constructed by Whitlock Cordage in and after 1905 on a seven-acre site. [2]
Scribner's Mills in Harrison, Maine is working on reconstructing an up-and-down sawmill. Maryland. Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in ...
The Homestead Strike arose when Henry Clay Frick, an associate and partner of Carnegie, took over while Carnegie traveled to Scotland. Frick attempted to cut the wages of the steel workers. The steelworkers at the Duquesne and Edgar Thomson Works joined the strike and shut their mills down in sympathy. [8] Frick took extreme measures.