Highly mechanized control panel for the kilns in the Nat. Portland Cement Co. Plant, Bath, Pa. This panel indicates and controls the factors in the burning of cement,-such as CO & COH,-temperature, n kiln and etc.

Highly mechanized control panel for the kilns in the Nat. Portland Cement Co. Plant, Bath, Pa. This panel indicates and controls the factors in the burning of cement,-such as CO & COH,-temperature, n kiln and etc.

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Highly mechanized control panel for the kilns in the Nat. Portland Cement Co. Plant, Bath, Pa. This panel indicates and controls the factors in the burning of cement,-such as CO & COH,-temperature, n kiln and etc.

ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
11.9 x 17.0 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0733.0006
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Property of National Research Project of the
W.P.A. Room 917 - 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Not To Be
Reproduced Before Jan. 1938." "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for
National Research Project Of WPA 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa."
(applied typed label) "55. Highly mechanized control panel for the
kilns in the Nat. Portland Cement Co. Plant, Bath, Pa. This panel
indicates and controls the factors in the burning of cement,-such as
CO & COH,-temperature, draft, air in kiln and etc. (See #59)"
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