Part of the Pillsbury tunnel that brought water back to the Mississippi River.
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The Harrison flour mill, completed in 1897 and expanded in 1901 and 1902. The tunnel that I am standing on probably transported grain from the elevator to the mill. Medium Format.
This picture gives you the idea of how the boat-loading control rooms are set up; they lean over the dock and Lake Superior to be able to see down into the holds of the boats… important, considering how quickly it loaded the boats! An uneven load could put stress on the hull of a laker, increasing the risk it will break and sink.
Funny how sensitive modern English speakers have become to gendered language. I doubt the workers here–almost all female–were offended by this posting for ‘Workmen’s Compensation’.
At the top of a skyway that brought fresh-dried cotton into the Nitrating House from the Cotton Dry House. How? Monorail, of course.
A heavy steel device locks the anchor up.
Colors of the boiler room.
An emergency slide to help workers evacuate the blending house in an emergency.
In the nitrating house.
These ceramic bricks were likely from the fireproof tunnel that connected the elevators.