United States Steel Corporation photographs

The United States Steel Corporation was founded in 1901 by J. Pierpont Morgan and Elbert H. Gary through a merger of the three major steel manufacturers of the time; Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company, Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry Moore's National Steel Company. Morgan believed that steel was the future and paid handsomely to acquire the Carnegie Steel Company and consolidate it with other national steel companies to form one large conglomerate. The birth of new cities in the American West after the turn of the century and the rise of the automobile would assure that steel would play an integral role in America's growth as numerous structures and products contained the material including buildings and bridges. The US Steel Corporation played a prominent role in the ramp up to World War I and World War II by supplying the US Army with armament, tanks, planes and numerous other products manufactured specifically for the War effort. With the rise of consumerism in America, US Steel provided materials for a vast amount of products from razor blades, children's toys, automobiles and appliances to railroad ties, chain link fences, telephone and telegraph wires, concrete roads and highways and prefabricated homes. The products US Steel manufactured permeated throughout the entire fabric of life in the United States affecting many different and diverse industries. The company employed hundreds of thousands of people, more during the War effort.

The US Steel Corporation and its many subsidiaries are responsible for the design and construction of many important buildings, bridges and structures in the United States and internationally as well as the fabrication of concrete roads, railroad ties, locomotive wheels, steel pipes and tubes, copper wires, wire products and vehicles and armament for the United States Army and Navy.