1980s safety-album page

Description

Page of a 1980s Angang safety-work photo album, each photograph mounted with a typed caption strip; from a private family collection. This page, two photographs: a home-built orange scissor-lift maintenance vehicle raising workers to a forging press, and a vertical spiral staircase winding up between the great riveted shells of the hot-blast stoves; the caption reads 为防止高处坠落事故，革新制做的升降式检修车和施工立式旋梯 ('to prevent falls from height: an innovated lifting maintenance vehicle and a vertical construction spiral stair').

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. 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).