Dead Light

Perhaps one side is firmer than the other?

Wagons and horses were kept in the building on the left, separate from the rest of the complex in case of fire. In the distance is the boiler house, separate for the same reason.

Water vapor was collected and condensed to be reused in other processes. Kodak Tri-X 400/Leica M7

These long curved corridors connected the wards. Locked doors on both of their ends were a security and comfort feature. Sounds and people would be sealed in their respective wards, as the hallways would act like beautiful airlocks; they were so long that it was unlikely that doors would be open on both sides at the same time. Portra 160.

This is one of the biggest warps I’ve ever found in a wooden factory floor hasn’t broken yet. When you stand on it, it make a very loud popping sound as the boards shift. The poster on the pillar near the left side of the frame advertises recreational boating, presumably to the factory workers who left this floor in the early 1980s.

Those able to work would be compelled to help fix up the facility, grow, harvest, and prepare food for fellow ‘inmates’, or work on vocational skills.

Graffiti by a crew member of the Algolake.

I wish I had the equipment then that I have now… I look back at these 10-year-old pictures and can’t ignore all the grain.

Unloading boats had the option to take on fuel at Taconite Harbor. This building, among other things, pumped fuel to the dock.