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Can

Object number2014.90.2

Manufacturer St. Joseph Lead Company

Date1967

OriginJosephtown, PA

MediumMetal/Ink

Credit LineGift of Horsehead Corporation

DescriptionSt. Joseph Lead Company can of St. Joe Lead Free Zinc Oxide. Rectangular metal can with lid and rounded corners. Sides are orange with white horizontal stripes around the top half.Dimensions8.5 x 5.25 x 5.25 in. (21.6 x 13.3 x 13.3 cm)
MarksOn two sides there is blue text at the bottom "ST. JOE / lead-free / ZINC OXIDE".

On two sides there is a blue and white circle over the white striped area with blue text inside "ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY / ST. JOE / ZINC OXIDE / JOSEPHTOWN, PA." and blue text at the bottom "ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY / 250 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N. Y. / PLANT AND LABORATORY / JOSEPHTOWN, MONACA 7, PA."

Lid has handwritten black text Oxide / Trail Sple. / For STDS. / E.T.L / 5-15-67".
Historical NotesThe St. Joseph Lead Company began in 1864 in New York State as a lead mining operation. For the first 50 years or so the company mined lead in the Missouri area. They expanded to zinc in the early 1900s and it was after this time that they built a smelter in Josephtown, Monaca, Pennsylvania that would produce zinc oxide and later zinc metal. The Weaton-Najarian Zinc Condenser model was presented to George Weaton in May of 1956 by the Ten Year Club of the Zinc Smelting Division of the St. Joseph Lead Company. The Condenser was originally developed around 1933 by Weaton and a colleague Najarian who worked for St. Joseph's in their Pennsylvania facility. The Condenser performed the electrothermoreduction of zinc. The Horsehead Corporation, formerly the New Jersey Zinc Company, is an American producer of zinc and related material based in Pittsburgh, PA.

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