Clay Manufacturing Company

The photo below shows the Kittanning Clay Manufacturing Company vintage about 1900.  The company was located in Kittanning Pennsylvania and manufactured bricks using the clay from the adjacent clay pit partially visible on the hill to the right.  The clay was ground, screened, and mixed in a pug mill.  The bricks were then molded and wire cut in a stiff-mud machine.  They used two rectangular up-draft kilns and four round down-draft kilns.  Gas was furnished in pipe lines to heat the kilns.  The works was close by the Allegheny Valley railroad and was equipped with a siding.

In the photo you can see two round kilns and the finished brick loading shed next to the rail siding.  There is a gondola car next to the shed with a worker on top.