Looking past the hoist room (left) toward Shaft No. 1, behind the concrete head frame built in the late 1940s. This shaft could haul equipment from ground level (below) to shop level, where the picture was taken.
The office was redder than the rest of the building.
Looking from the ‘crack’ that shows a collapsed tunnel into the dry house, in the direction miners returning home would walk. Note smoke lines above door.
Part of an ongoing series on found American flags in shuttered factories.
In the many-windowed metal building, the lumberyard buildings and the abandoned starch works buildings are separated by a thick wall of pallets.
Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.
The sun sets in front of a huge concrete building—about four times the size of the power plant. Probably a corn storage bin from an ethanol operation that ran here in the 1980s.
The workshop sat below the main working floor and had serious power going to it.
Heavy wood doors for keeping people in.
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