Out of This Furnace

Out of This Furnace is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Braddock, Allegheny County, dedicated 2023.

Allegheny County · dedicated 2023 · Braddock Ave. & 13th St., Braddock

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Set mainly in Braddock, Thomas Bell’s 1941 novel follows three genera-tions of an immigrant Slovak family here. Bell drew on personal history, including a job at Edgar Thomson Steel Works, to create this vivid depiction of working-class life in industrial Pittsburgh.

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