A sign hanging near the shop office.
history under ground
worker-graffiti
Worker graffiti in a stairway. If this is your birthday, you have to comment on this post!
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Debating immigrants.
A little welding art one crosses over near the windlass room.
“Daisy”… probably for the mill, as it was unusual for women to work at Daisy.
“R.O. 1939”
“N.L. ’45”. Brick Graffiti Series.
“Richard Glumac ’44”. Brick Graffiti Series.
“B. M.” Brick Graffiti Series.
“Peter”
Postcards and snapshots in a high elevator office.
Don Crist ’83. Brick Graffiti Series.
Latscher. Brick Graffiti Series.
Moon of M.R. 5-22-1985. Brick Graffiti Series.
“Roger O.”
A closeup of a flour chute.
Miscellaneous math and strange instructions remain all across the shipment section walls. Sadly, this section likely fell into disrepair before the others.
Chicago-made fire door.
“M.H. ’56; Al Malmsten ’44”. Brick Graffiti Series.
An arrangement of brick graffiti on the old boiler house building near the railroad tracks.
Fire doors and penis talk.
“_____ BROS”
Next to the pit in the maintenance shop is “The Wall”… where rail workers wrote about interesting happenings at Shoreham.
A chalkboard halfway to the headhouse is untouched since the mill closed. It still has the cheat sheets!
Carvings on the back of a barracks building.
In the soft wood of the machine, an employee left their mark.
“R.S. ’14”. Brick Graffiti Series.
A scribbled note on a doorframe… lost details.
Circa-1935 graffiti in concrete across the slip from Huron-Portland.
The guard shack protecting the Nike launch pad.
“W.B.R. 1974”
“Richard Glumac ’45”. Brick Graffiti Series.
Fantastic brick graffiti piece by a Duluthian in 1933! Is the stick drawing of a horse? Feel free to weigh in.
” Joe Sheldon; R.K. ’47-’48”. Brick Graffiti Series.
Graffiti by a crew member of the Algolake.
Circa-1960s graffiti. Someone got their ass kicked.
1950s safety posters about static and proper footware hide in remote offices, where the curious haven’t stolen them… yet.
“12-8-1914”
“R.M. ’43”. Brick Graffiti Series.
Drawn in fresh concrete about 50 years before I took this picture, and only 2 years after this elevator blew up…
Two signatures complement this gorgeous hand-painted sign. ‘Bowers’ from 1987 and ‘Normal’ from 1982. The blocking on the letters is still visible!
Ruster at The Pool… employee graffiti about 100 above ground.
“W.N. ’86”. Brick Graffiti Series.
Peering into a remote office at Manitoba Wheat Pool #3. Someone left their to-do list behind.
HN. Brick Graffiti Series.
“Dale Rossetter ’54”. Brick Graffiti Series.
These copulas made the iron for casting.
Moon of M.R. ‘1985. Brick Graffiti Series.
Kodak Tri-X 400, Leica M7. Serious enough to write across the side of the tank, but not serious enough to have a sign made.
Someone’s fractal cheat sheet, spraypainted on the side of the Osborn.
Who is Jo Jew? Is it you?
More circa-1935 graffiti.
The corners of these buildings are inscribed by a century of bored rail workers and delivery drivers. Pictured is the southeast corner of the Twohy, which is typical of mercantiles.
“Richard Glumac”. Brick Graffiti Series.
In front of a rust-welded Illinois rotary stoker is where the boiler-men made their mark. The last year I can make out is 1985.