The shed in the front was full of worker supplies–namely goggles and heavy leather gloves. Molten copper isn’t a friendly thing to handle.
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The factory was utterly vertical.
The only door into a large windowless concrete room, probably a storage bin. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.
“Roger O.”
My favorite shot of the 17-story Art Deco office tower attached to the train station.
Imagine the voice of an entitled White suburban mother. She’s now talking about oral hygiene in the “urban” (Black) schools.
A side door for the brick factory.
All of the bucket conveyors crashed on this work floor when their casings were scrapped. Note all of the valves to open the grain flow.
A single metal emergency slide rusts away at sunrise.
This is a room where the actual explosive elements were mixed. In the event of an accident, this glass wall would give way before the concrete and thus direct the flames and shockwave away from the rest of the building. In other words, the glass is not just to get a lot of wonderful natural light into the building.