ART-AS-127 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning
Yearbook photo plate captioned 'Tapping iron from the blast furnace' (高炉出铁)…
鞍钢年鉴 (内页照片: 高炉出铁、平炉出钢)
c. 1985 (yearbook plate)
Description
Yearbook photo plate captioned 'Tapping iron from the blast furnace' (高炉出铁) and 'Tapping steel from the open-hearth furnace' (平炉出钢), showing molten metal and sparks.
Significance to the comparison
Everyday material evidence of working life at Angang (Anshan Iron & Steel), contributed from a family collection. Objects like this are the physical trace of the danwei world the oral histories describe.
Provenance
- Field collection
- Photographed in Anshan, July 2026; contributed by a participating family; personal identifiers redacted where present. Original held by the family.
Evidence media
- Photograph of the object (web copy shown; original held privately).
Sources single-source record — corroborating source pending
- Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).
Cite this record
Tim Qiao, ed., “Yearbook photo plate captioned 'Tapping iron from the blast furnace' (高炉出铁)…,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-127, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →