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Billet chutes at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1908.

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One guy descaling tremendous quantity of iron or steel billets. What leads me to state that?
Only one work coat hanging on the bridge crane upright, off to his left.
Unsure how billets make it from chutes to area between crane span, or how the stacking occurs under crane rail.......