Digital Collection
2012.046.134

Print, Photographic

Photograph (and 1 copy). Black and white photo showing an interior view of the Detroit Edison River Rouge electric power plant. The image shows a boiler being raised with two heavy block and tackle assemblies inside the power plant building. The top of the building is open to daylight and the interior area is surrounded by dense network of structural steel beams and columns as well as pipes, catwalks, cables, and fittings. A typewritten label on the bottom of the photo shows "River Rouge Power Plant; Raising of Boiler #3 Reheat Steam Drum - Drum between 3rd and 5th floors. Construction; 10-2-56 : 76912-925."

Date
1956
Collection
Print Size
8.125" x 10"
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