A rare door left on the workhouse. The stairs to the left led down into a flooded basement. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.
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This was not always the top of the elevator.
The top of the headframe, and in a sense, the mine itself. This pulley carried the life line of the mine and the men in it.
A breeze and broken window has animated one of the few curtains still hanging in Nopeming as of 2015.
An insurance office.
A circular common room in one of the original parts of the hospital. When the asylum was especially crowded, this would be filled with patient beds, too. It’s very strange that this floor was not tiled like the other common rooms. It makes me wonder if especially dangerous patients were kept in this ward; those who could not be trusted to not extract and sharpen the ceramic tiles. Portra 160.
One of the prettier Humphry Manlifts in Minneapolis, in my opinion.
When boiling beet juice accidentally spills from the gas-fired tanks two feet away, you better be wearing some of these, or bye-bye legs.
To the right is the spiral staircase. This building had a definite “floor problem”.
Camera: Pentax 67.