The West Point Foundry (1818-1912) began operating as a munitions contractor making cannon and shot. The foundry grew to employ hundreds of workers manufacturing a…
EDWARD S. RUTSCH 1936-2003 ED’S FRIEND, HERB GITHENS, WROTE THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY Edward S. Rutsch the renowned industrial archeologist died Sunday at the age of…
Photographs taken or supplied by Mark Dice SIA Secretary Spivey read a report at the 2014 SIA Business meeting on behalf of Student Scholarships Committee…
General Tools Award Committee chair Richard K. Anderson, Jr., announced that Jet Lowe is the winner of the General Tools Award for 2014. GENERAL TOOLS…
2014 – T. Arron Kotlensky for his paper “From Forest and Mine to Foundry and Cannons: An Archeological Study of the Blast Furnace at the…
Bob Frame – 2013 SIA General Tools Award Recipient Carol Poh presenting the 2013 General Tools Award to Bob Frame Photograph by Dennis Furbush This…
This year the Vogel Prize is awarded to Paul J. White for his paper “The Rise and Fall of the California Stamp: Historical and Archaeological…
The 2012 Robert M. Vogel prize is awarded to Robert W. Passfield for his article St. Andrew’s Caméré Curtain Bridge Dam, Lockport, Manitoba,” which appeared…
Photograph by Ann Cullen This year’s recipient of the General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology has made significant contributions to the documentation,…
Richard Anderson has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a historical architect working primarily in industrial archeology. For more than thirty years Richard has…