Jars like these were used to measure the volume of fluid pumped out of TB patients’ lungs.
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A patient room is more intact than others.
Behind the main shaft is this familiar industrial sight… a running count of days since the last injury.
Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.
A carefully kept journal of the ballast levels in the final years that the Ford sailed Lake Superior.
The largest extant structure when I visited.
A 1960s style TV set in a sun room at the back of the poor house. The concrete room survived the roof collapse and was full of rotten children’s books and toys. Perhaps it was where donations were sorted, or perhaps it was a nursery/orphanage area.
An engine on display outside the Montana Territorial Prison in Deer Lodge, MT. This was a typical electric locomotive used by The Milwaukee Road.
The side of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool #7, still active, is hypnotizingly regular. From a distance, its texture resembles parchment. Its color resembles the color of the wheat in late October.
Peering into a remote office at Manitoba Wheat Pool #3. Someone left their to-do list behind.