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Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania (LOC)
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer.
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania
1935 Nov.
1 negative : nitrate ; 8 x 10 inches or smaller.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Digital file made from the original print, not the original negative.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture
Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
Bethlehem--Pennsylvania
United States--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00231
Call Number: LC-USF342- 001167-A
Comments and faves
rarefruitfan, TexKap, frances1972, ianturton, and 121 other people added this photo to their favorites.
TexKap (44 months ago | reply)
The mirroring of headstones, buildings and smokestacks is just a compositional masterpiece. Always loved this and used a reference image when I taught black and white photography classes in college.
parkermulligan (44 months ago | reply)
Now home of a Sands Casino (as of Memorial Day weekend 2009).
www.pasands.com/default.aspx
This photo was invited and added to the American Melancholy group.
roberthuffstutter (27 months ago | reply)
What a statement this photo makes. It is a prophecy of the AMERICAN FUTURE IN INDUSTRY...
roberthuffstutter (26 months ago | reply)
There is a story to tell here, a story about the greatest generation, a story about the life and death of America's steel industry, a story too, about crosses and the ACLU's efforts to remove them.
Don't let the ACLU mess with Christianity, please--or any other religion. We are a free country with freedom to believe what we want. I don't believe we need a religious police force or a group of GOD COPS censoring our spirituality. Amen...
Shadows And Rust (22 months ago | reply)
The name of this cemetery is St. Micheal's. It lies on the sloping side of a low moutain on the south side of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This was the side of the town where the mill stood. It was the side that the workers lived on as you can see by the row homes in the picture. As the plant closed and the jobs disappeared many families were forced to leave. Shops and lunch counters closed with no noon rush to keep them open. The south side became run down, buildings sat empty and this cemetery was neglected and vandalized.
Behind where Evans stood to shoot this image, the graves continue up into the tree line. Many do not contain a word of English, baring testament to the various ethnic groups that had come here to work at the steel. Some, such as a plain cross cut from sheet metal show just how hard some people were struggling.
smoothrider2 [deleted] (19 months ago | reply)
I have always been intrigued and saddened by the downfall of Bethlehem Steel and all it symbolized in this great nation. When my horse was stabled at Penn National in 2009 I stopped early one morning (enroute from central NJ) as the sun was rising to video the blast furnaces and empty buildings. I did a short narration so that my children could see and understand the blood, sweat, and tears that built this country. May the efforts put forth there and the hard working people in that cemetary not be forgotten.