This is the building with the water tower on top, full of Barcol stuff that did not sell at auction and not worth the trouble to scrap.
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Equipment that did not sell at auction.
Installed in 1904 at the center of the plant, this is one of two batteries of boilers. Being in Oshkosh, heat was very important to keeping labor moving in the cold months.
Park Insurance Agency is no longer in business, nor would you be able to dial that phone number.
Records of dead machines rot on the accounting office floor.
The building in the foreground–the old control booth–was arsoned in 2009.
In the mine offices, a training manual for miners sits open. Here’s how you signal to the surface if you are trapped after a disaster.
One of the pair of motors that powered this mine shaft. In the 1950s, this shaft was designated a rescue shaft, and was only maintained for emergencies. One reason that Cheratte built Shaft 3 nearby was because these motors and infrastructure did not have the capacity that the giant mine below called for.
A clicky-flippy clock is having some kind of malfunction.
This picture typifies the industrial ideal of the early 20th century. More metal than air. More efficiency than beauty. More profits than people.