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1.  Sheeler redact: Lower east/west conveyor from wharf carried coke to highline for blast furnaces; upper south/north conveyor carried coal to GG; double window carried coal to powerhouse pulverizer building for powerhouse in background. Looking north/northeast
2.  Left to right: coke ovens, wharf with belt conveyor, coal bunker, coke stack, brick quencher, gas holder, view framed by bracing for overhead conveyor. Looking south/southeast
3.  Gas holder, limestone pile to right, electrical transmission tower, railroad tracks, quench water tank. Looking south/southeast
4.  From west side of boat slip; ore piles, unloaders, blast furnaces, tube conveyors, ore conveyors, stock house, powerhouse. Looking north/northeast
5.  Foreground: ore bridges, ore/coke/limestone bins, Detroit River; background: stock house on left, stripper building, BOF. Looking south/southwest
6.  FF coal pulverizer (ball mill inside). GG building in background did preliminary crushing; pulverizer to left, coal conveyor and air cleaning towers to right; conveyor on left brought crushed coal to FF. Looking north/northeast
7.  FF. Note vertical ribs indicating storage bin inside; conveyor to left brings pulverized coal from GG to FF; 8 sisters in background. Looking northeast
8.  Elevation of west side of FF. Coal came from GG (breaker) to bins at top from which it dropped down in to ball mills and then sent it by conveyor to bunkers. Looking east
9.  Coal bunker in center, coal conveyor, top of wood quench tower; GG breaker building, associated conveyors, gas holder. Looking southeast
10.  DD and GG breaker building and associated conveyors. DD is coke transfer hous ein foreground; GG is breaker building in center. Coal bunker is tall building to left; 2-story coke conveyor on left brought coal to powerhouse pulverizer. Looking south/southeast
11.  GG breaker building in center, bunker for DX coke batteries to left, coke transfer house to right. Looking southeast
12.  Highline (north end), elevator penthouse. looking south
13.  Coal bunker, coke stacks, coke ovens. Looking north/northeast
14.  Battery of coke ovens (DX?) on right, pusher cars on right, hot gas pipes on left and overhead; pulverized coal bunker is tall, vertical structure on left. looking south
15.  Pulverized coal bunker, coal conveyor to left, hot gas pipe, "A" battery ovens to left. Looking south/southwest
16.  DX battery of coke ovens, push car, ram extended back. Looking north/northeast
17.  Detail of koppers coke ovens, doors showing locking mechanism. Looking east
18.  Door machine with door engine on top, coke guide, brick quencher to right. Looking east/southeast
19.  Coke guide, door machine, coke ovens. Looking east/northeast
20.  Detail of old style quench car with dinkey locomotive at end. Looking northeast
21.  Detail, newer style quench car. Looking east/southeast
22.  Brick quencher, metal stack on right, crusher house on left, crushed coal conveyor. Looking north/northwest
23.  Brick coke quencher, brick stack, metal stack to right, coke gas pipe to left; in background, BOF building, limestone piles, Levy's Slag Dump. Looking north/northwest
24.  Detail of brick quencher, 18 nozzles (11 left, 7 right), door machines on left of coke battery. Looking north/northwest
25.  Wood quench tower, chemical tank on right, hot gas pipes between coke ovens and compressor building XX), coal conveyor to pulverizer building on right, water tank to left of quench tower. Looking north/northwest
26.  Wood coal quencher, coal conveyor for powerhouse coal pulverizer house, DX coke battery, stack, coke batteries to right. Looking east
27.  Detail, wood quench tower, 13 nozzles right side, 0 nozzles left side, 1 1/4" tongue & groove. Looking south
28.  Detail, coke wharf, gates, operator manually opened gates. Looking northwest
29.  Coke oven by-product building "XX" with ammonia stills; powerhouse with 8 sisters (stacks) in background; conveyor #20 (with break) on right, pulevrized coal storage bunker on left. Looking north/northwest
30.  XX by-products building (containing coke gas compressors at north end, ammonia stills in south end), #20 coal conveyor jutting out of top on east side, continuing out west side to bunker. Looking south/southeast
31.  Liquor coolers, coal bunker, conveyor. Looking east
32.  Tanks adjacent to WW building conveyor; left & right coke oven stacks; pulverized coal bunker bin on right. Looking west
33.  "B" furnace pour, "B" furnace cast house to left, coal pulverizer house, idle "A" furnace. Looking south
34.  Detail of "B" furnace pour into bottle cars, furnace operator on platform measures temperature inside bottle car. Looking southwest
35.  Detail of "C" furnace pour into bottle cars. Looking west
36.  Elevation of "B" furnace during pour. Looking west
37.  Detail of "C' furnace pour into bottle cars. Looking south
38.  8 sisters and powerhouse, pulverizer building for powerhouse, coal conveyor, blast stoves, "A" furnace, stoves, "B" furnace, stoves, "C" furnace, bottle cars. Looking south
39.  Stoves, blast furnaces, bottle cars, conac diesel-electric locomotive. Looking south
40.  Highline to right, rear of casting shed for furnace C to left. Looking east
41.  Casting floor, "B" furnace, pour in progress; mudgun is to right of furnace; photo taken from furnace operator's booth. Looking south/southwest
42.  Casting floor, "B" furnace, pour in progress; mudgun is to right of furnace; operator takes temperature of iron in trough during pout. Looking south
43.  Casting floor, "B" furnace, pour in progress; mudgun to right of furnace. Looking south
44.  Tube conveyors carry ore, coke and limestone to blast furnaces "B" and "C". Ore bridges to left, passenger elevator penthouse immediately to left of conveyor; gas stack and furnace "A" to right. Looking north
45.  Highline to left, main blast furnace gas vein, slag pour, blast furniture materials conveyor overhead. Looking north/northwest
46.  Furnace "A", hot blast stoves #1, #2, #3 flues. Looking south/southeast
47.  No. 4 hot blast stove, furnace "A", showing checkerwork askew after collapse of support posts. Note pattern of checkerwork refractories. looking west
48.  No. 3 hot blast stove, furnace "A", showing support posts for checkerwork intact. looking west
49.  Taken from high-line; "McKinley hat" remains on "B" furnace; no longer used, "McKinley hat was open receptacle with bell below. Hat carried charge to furnace top, dumping it to bell; bell locked onto furnace top, dropping charge into furnace. Looking east
50.  Taken from high-line; "B" furnace slag pots, pipe is main blast furnace gas line from "C" furnace dust catcher; levy, slag hauler, removing slag. Looking east
51.  Taken from high-line; "B" furnace slag pots, pipe is main blast furnace gas line from "C" furnace dust catcher. Looking east
52.  Powerhouse, fly ash silos, chemical tank on left, stacks (8 sisters). Looking north/northeast
53.  Powerhouse, 8 sisters, chemical tank, hot gas pipes, precipitator on top with stacks, fly ash towers on right. Looking north
54.  Lift pumphouse for powerhouse. Looking northwest
55.  Interior, pumphouse. Looking southeast
56.  Coal pulverizer house for powerhouse. Looking north/northeast
57.  Locomotive storage house. Looking east/northeast