Text on reverse: "The Boiler House is equipped with three batteries of Heine Safety Water Tube Boilers, composed of thirteen double units or twenty-six boilers. There are two smoke stacks, each 176 feet high, built of radial fire brick. Over the boilers are installed a net work of pipes known as Fuel Economizers, in which the feed water is heated almost to boiling temperature by the waste gases escaping through the flue. The coal consumption is about one hundred tons daily."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking across the face of a large boiler system. In the top half of the image are light-colored steam pipes, each going straight up from the boiler and then making a ninety-degree curve to the left. The boiler itself is very tall, at least twice as tall as the workmen in the picture, and has pressure gauges near the top, large panels in the middle, and many smaller coal-loading doors near the bottom. In front of the boiler are several workers loading coal into the boiler from large coal skips. Very bright white light comes in from doors and windows in the middle of the right side of the frame.
Notes:
No. 16 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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