Redesign of the photo “Steelmaker stands against the background of a smelter in Chicago, Illinois”

The Illinois Steel Company was the largest metallurgical company in the United States, and the largest producer of steel and iron in the country until the late 1880s. The company specialized in processing iron ore into steel.

© Stanley Kubrick, 1949
© LOOK Magazine Collection / Library of Congress / Prints & Photographs Division / Museum of the City of New York
© Braty Art Studio, 2021