Inland Steel Company, founded in 1893 in Chicago, arrived first in northwest Indiana, establishing its Indiana
Harbor Works in 1901 in East Chicago, Indiana. A very large and important source of historical information about
the local steel industry is the Inland Steel Company Photograph Collection housed in the Calumet Regional Archives
at Indiana University Northwest. Inland Steel created a visual materials collection comprising over one million
images, including prints, negatives, slides and transparencies. Select images from this huge collection are
presented here for use by students, scholars, and the general public.