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Energy conserving window plastic does no good when the doors are all open and the heat’s off.

In the ward for the criminally insane, this door was the most-worn. Nail scratches mark the area around the peep hole, the wood is gouged everywhere from thrown chairs and hard kicks, and a ominous blood-colored stain is visible where it dripped in the second inset from the bottom. Aside from the damage, the coloring in this section was very vibrant, though it was probably little reprieve for those who had to work here.

The sun lowered behind the dead flour mill, bending its image upon itself.

In the quality assurance labs there is a old safe.

A super-long exposure of the side of the middle of Daisy Elevator, built in 1927. The oldest silos are closest to the mill and date to 1916. They were expanded toward Superior in 1927 and 1941. The total capacity is about 500,000 bushels.

A long exposure panorama of Electric Steel and Kurth from the roof of Russell Miller B, days before it was demolished.

The iconic outline of a prairie sentinel. Quintessential rural industrial architecture.

Across the walls of the brick repair shop, near where men and machine entered Shaft No. 3, vines, pipes, and graffiti battle unknowingly for visual prominence.

A tower above Minneapolis that few people see.