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Loading the Stores
From a turn-of-the-century family photo album. I believe these are coal chutes, and they're loading the stores of a ship bound for sea.
Iron Ore Dock
Those are iron ore docks. The coal docks were for unloading in those days and there were overhead clam shovels on tracks to take coal out of the holds and move them to the piles.
Very dirty work.
I second the first guy.
Looks like a Great Lakes ore dock to me, probably in Duluth. See, for instance:
... and an overhead view showing the vicinity of the ore docks.
Ore Dock
My guess is that this is an iron ore dock in Duluth Minnesota. The orientation is right and what appears to be ships ("boats" in Great Lakes lingo) could be docked across the bay at Superior Wisconsin. The ship is constructed like a Great Lakes bulk carrier with this picture taken from the back of the pilot house on the bow.
Coal or Grain
One of the two. Would help to know where the photo was taken. Coal was loaded onto ships for export primarily in the Hampton Roads area and at terminals on the Great Lakes where it would be shipped to steel mills.
The guys walking around on deck appear a little too clean to be loading coal, but you never know.
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