Title
NY Gas Works
Subject
Many Irish immigrants, especially those from Castlegregory in Kerry, took jobs shoveling coal into these huge "retorts" at the New York Gas Works. This image from an English gas works in 1821 gives a sense of the heat and danger to which gas workers were exposed each day.
Date
1821
Format
png
Original Format
photo
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