Our mission is to create a visual record of work and life in Western Pennsylvania for future generations. Building upon the documentation of The Jones and Laughlin Photographic Project. This project aims to show how those in Western Pennsylvania work and live in our time.
In the 1950s photographers traveled to Western Pennsylvania to document workers
The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, one of the region’s largest employers at the time hosted photographers Arnold Eagle, Russell Lee, Arthur Siegel, Art D’Arazien, Ivan Massar, and others contributed to a photographic project that informs today
70 years later the work continues
This is a community centered archive. Whether you’re most comfortable contributing contact information for local connections to workers or companies not seen in the existing archive, or money to help us do the work, we need you on our team.
“We were introducing America to Americans.”
— Roy Stryker