Steel & Oil INDUSTRIAL MEMORY ARCHIVE
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ART-AS-175
Real material from the Anshan field collection (2026), shared voluntarily and de-identified per the archive’s consent and redaction rules.
ART-AS-175 Artifact Anshan, Liaoning

Cloth-textured cover of a commemorative photo volume on a veteran Angang…

老冶金人纪念画册封面（墨笔港城图案）
c. 2000s–2010s (volume); career spans c. 1970s–2000s
Cloth-textured cover of a commemorative photo volume on a veteran Angang metallurgist's career, with ink-brush artwork of harbor cranes, city buildings and a steel plant — photographed artifact, Anshan field collection.
Cloth-textured cover of a commemorative photo volume on a veteran Angang metallurgist's career, with ink-brush artwork of harbor cranes, city buildings and a steel plantPhotographed Anshan, 2026 · web copy; original held privately

Description

Cloth-textured hardcover of a privately compiled commemorative photo volume tracing the career of a veteran Angang metallurgist (name withheld per archive policy). A sweeping ink-brush stroke frames faded images of harbor cranes, civic buildings and plant structures, with the title in blue running calligraphy and a small red seal.

Significance to the comparison

Self-made memory work: a steel family compiling a career into a book. It shows how Angang lives are curated and remembered privately, parallel to what this public archive does.

Provenance

Field collection
Photographed during the July 2026 Anshan field interview (see OHS-AS-127); the volume was shown at the interview. 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).

Related records

OHS-AS-127 A fitter taught file-stroke by file-stroke, whose unit gave him his homes (1950s generation) ART-AS-176 Open spread (page 054) of the commemorative volume: snapshot of the subject on an overseas posting in Papua New Guinea, in the chapter 'Dedicating one's youth to the metallurgical front' (冶金战线献青春) ART-AS-177 Open spread (page 064) of the commemorative volume: the subject at a celebration rally at Angang No. 1 Steelmaking Plant, under banners saluting the Daqing working class
Cite this record

Zitian Qiao, ed., “Cloth-textured cover of a commemorative photo volume on a veteran Angang…,” Steel & Oil: Anshan–Houston Industrial Memory Archive, ART-AS-175, version 0.2 (field-collected, Anshan, 2026). Citation formats and the stable-identifier scheme →