Handling the grain crop at the Port of New York. Grain elevators and storage warehouses at Brooklyn -- capacity 2,200,000 bushels. Weighing the grain. Elevator leg. Shaking screen for cleaning the wheat. Universal distributing spout. Belt conveyors in the lower gallery.



Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past

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Saturday 12 December 2009

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Saturday 12 December 2009

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cargo, crops, docks, food, protection, storage, transfer

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