Buildings and History - How and Why

[glenn-k]

That reminded me of a salt tram near where we used to go skinny dippin' at the Hot Springs.

The Saline Valley salt works shipped salt on a tram over an entire mountain range.





from here  http://www.ttora-socal.com/~tmdavid/deathvalley/Pages/saline_salt_tram.htm

[Sassy]

Very interesting, MtnDon - steam powered water pumping & irrigation - they must have had quite a set-up.  Re-pristine wilderness areas, just more of the UN's Agenda 21 dictating how we use the land...    

The people who settled these areas must have been really tough!

[glenn-k]

I found and interesting presentation of a color photograph process invented by a Russian about 1900 or so.  He used a 3 plate process - RGB and used a projector to show the color picture.  Here is a hay storage facility about 1910.



Storage Facilities for Hay

In the settlement of Viazovaia, along the Trans-Siberian mainline in the Ural Mountain region, wooden storage facilities for hay and food crops are photographed against the background of a dense pine forest.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
A Method for Storing Hay, 1910.
Digital color rendering.


Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-04426) (57)

More here -- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/architecture.html

and the entire presentation - Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

The process http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html



Windmills in Ialutorovsk County

Wooden mills using wind-power to grind wheat and rye are photographed in the middle of summer on the vast Siberian plain in rural Ialutorovsk county in Western Siberia.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

Mills in Ialutorovsk Uyezd of
Tobol´sk Province, 1912.
Digital color rendering.
Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-03965) (23)

from this section http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/work.html

[glenn-k]

Also from the above work section, 1911  - note the building roof next to the vendor - post and beam with a double layer of brick on the  roof.  This technique was also used here in Mariposa  where thy had a single layer of brick under the roof of the warehouse I tore down.  It was built about 1865.  Both were apparently using the thermal flywheel effect of the brick to cut daytime heat from the roof and dissipate it at night.



     
Melon Vendor

Dressed in traditional Central Asian attire, a vendor of locally grown melons poses at his stand in the marketplace of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Melon Vendor, 1911.
Digital color rendering.
Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-03949) (27)

[jraabe]

Interesting use of brick in the roof! Think it would meet code in an earthquake area?  

And quite a fascinating photo technique for so early in the invention of photography.

Impressive results as well.



Something similar (multiple shots of the same scene reassembled for the final image) is happening now in HDR (high dynamic range) photography.

[Pox_Eclipse]

That reminded me of a salt tram near where we used to go skinny dippin' at the Hot Springs.

The Saline Valley salt works shipped salt on a tram over an entire mountain range.

Well, that brings back memories from about 1970!  When I was 16, I hiked from Cerro Gordo Mine to New York Butte, saw that up close.  Had a nice soak at the Dirty Sock afterwards too!

[glenn-k]

Was the dirty Sock the one on the West side somewhere down near the end of the salt tram?  I think
Cerro Gordo has a spook bed and breakfast there now or it did.

[Pox_Eclipse]

Dirty Sock is about half way on the road between Olancha and Keeler.  Check this out!

[glenn-k]

That's the one I was thinking of - haven't been there though.