Written on back: "This mill known as 500lb mill. Rolling mill where charcoal, brinstone (sulphur) nitrate or soda were mixed. Dam at top of the falls and a flume @ 545' carried water down to the turbine which drove the machinery for the mill. Flume...
Written on back: "President Grant and the Emperor of Brazil starting the great Corliss Engine in Machinery hall, US Centennial Exposition, 1876, Philadelphia."
text from back of photo: "Thousands of dollars in beer-making machinery which now rests idle in St. Louis' largest breweries are prepared to comply with any modification in the Volstead Law which may allow them to again employ a multitude of people...
Nearly seven million yards of bands, bindings and braids are produced annually in the Weaving Department, of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, requiring more than forty thousand pounds of raw silk, imported from Japan and Italy. All the...
