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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
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The Stamp Mill: 1906
Copper production circa 1906. "12,000 horsepower compound pump, Calumet and Hecla stamp mill, Lake Linden, Michigan." Note the faint double exposure in this 8x10 inch glass plate. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Crane
Can anyone make out the manufactures sign on the Overhead crane? Thanks in advance
The First Exposure or the Second?
I propose The Heart of Copper Country: 1905 as the second exposure on the above photo.
[We have a winner. -tterrace]
Domestic plumbing
Apparently they are pumping houses through that big pipe.
[The houses are an exact match for another Shorpy image -- who'll be the first to find it? - Dave]
Sitting room
I found two other chairs, just to the right of the big wheel, one on the top platform and one on the bottom.
Enter Charlie Chaplin
Looks like the movie Modern Times could have been shot there.
The Main Bearing
must have required constant attention as evidenced by the captain's chair on the platform. Employees of the era were rarely offered the opportunity to sit while on the job.
It brings to mind a John Lennon lyric from a 1980 song "I'm just sittin' here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll."
The steam engine is a work of art but so, too, is the building with its myriad girder and truss work. Note the sloping outer walls fit to the angle bracing and that huge overhead hoist! Another fascinating Shorpy view!
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