Steel & Oil INDUSTRIAL MEMORY ARCHIVE
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ART-AS-170
Real material from the Anshan field collection (2026), shared voluntarily and de-identified per the archive’s consent and redaction rules.
ART-AS-170 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning

Old color group photo of seven men in 1980s attire standing in front of a…

c. 1980s
Old color group photo of seven men in 1980s attire standing in front of a large brick buil — photographed artifact, Anshan field collection.
Old color group photo of seven men in 1980s attire standing in front of a large brick builPhotographed Anshan, 2026 · web copy; original held privately

Description

Old color group photo of seven men in 1980s attire standing in front of a large brick building with a clock and Chinese signage, likely an Angang/Anshan institutional building.

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

  1. Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).
Cite this record

Tim Qiao, ed., “Old color group photo of seven men in 1980s attire standing in front of a…,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-170, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →