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Glazed-brick walls catch the reflections of half an arch, backlighting the cool curving staircase. It’s all custom, baby.

The aerial tram at the Mayflower Mill gives a sense of what the Gold Prince Mill in Animas Forks once looked like. Trams connected the mill to the mines around it without the need to negotiate trees, rivers, and rough terrain.

The powerplant was roughly in the middle of the rail works.

A flooded assembly line.

Atop Elevator ‘M’, formerly Cargill ‘O’.

At night the city lights blast through the broken windows, casting crazy colors through the off-white interior of the mill.

The two exhaust vents coming out from the boilers en route to the stacks. Plywood marks where where catwalks were removed to extract equipment.

Looking from the main shop into the boiler shop, one of three attached buildings that specialized in certain repairs. One thing that architectural photographers have to work with is an elongated “magic hour” with ideal shadowing and coloring–this photo is a result of that lighting.

Made by the Mergenthalen Linotype Company of New York, this model series (300) was introduced in 1960 and boasted a 12-line-per-minute reproduction rate.