Sloss Company Brookside Coke Ovens

The Sloss Furnaces Company's coke ovens in Brookside, Jefferson County, ca. 1920. Part of the Birmingham Industrial District, the mines provided minerals used in Sloss blast furnaces producing pig iron.

Black-and-white photograph of smoking coke ovens beside railroad tracks and freight cars, with hills in the background.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

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Birmingham

Birmingham

Brookside

Brookside

Black-and-white photograph of smoking coke ovens beside railroad tracks and freight cars, with hills in the background.