Under the steam engine in the lower engine room–the camera is mounted right over the beginning of the cam shaft.
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A view of the government presses, with pages of law across the floor covered in footprints.
A massive steel sheer’s equally massive drive cog. Imagine the force.
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.
The porcelain hoops guided the silk threads through the device.
After Wilson Bros moved out, a furniture company moved in.
It was as noisy then as it is colorful now…
Bits and things in a pile in the corner of the smelter, the unsold chunks of industrial history that didn’t sell at an on-site auction before my visit.
Barrels were prepared across the street, then moved across the road with a special conveyor, seen crashed here. This is down the road from Old Taylor, and was probably a part of the Old Crow operation.
After crushing, these machines would float lighter material to the surface of the water, where it would be skimmed and discarded. Gold and silver laden stone would sink to the bottom, where it was collected for the next stage of processing. Leica/Summilux 35/Ektar 100