Steel & Oil INDUSTRIAL MEMORY ARCHIVE
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ART-AS-171
Real material from the Anshan field collection (2026), shared voluntarily and de-identified per the archive’s consent and redaction rules.
ART-AS-171 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning

Old color group photo of six men posed in front of a bronze bust on a…

c. 1980s
Old color group photo of six men posed in front of a bronze bust on a marble plinth (appea — photographed artifact, Anshan field collection.
Old color group photo of six men posed in front of a bronze bust on a marble plinth (appeaPhotographed Anshan, 2026 · web copy; original held privately

Description

Old color group photo of six men posed in front of a bronze bust on a marble plinth (appears to be a labor-model/Meng Tai style memorial), with a power-transmission tower behind.

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 six men posed in front of a bronze bust on a…,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-171, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →