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Koppers Coke

Before the Midway area of St. Paul was cleaned up in 1978, this coke plant dominated the area. Coke is partially-oxidized coal, used as a fuel in steel production. Photo June, 1977.
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Location
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Equipment Used
Calumet 4x5 with 90mm Super-Angulon
Exposure
Not recorded
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Tri-X Professional N-1 development in D-76 1:1
Lens Filter
Red filter
Hybrid Materials & Processing
Digital negative on Fixxons Waterproof
Digital Post Processing Details
9x12" kallitype on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag
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Reactions: bluechromis, Martin Aislabie, KYsailor and 7 others
Peter Black
I used to visit the coke ovens in South Wales for work many years ago, and I can almost smell that really pungent odour from your great shot.
 
Martin Aislabie
Great
I'm glad someone took the time to photograph the industrial heritage of our towns and cities.
In 50 years time no one will be here that remembers places like this.
Martin
 
SJC1952
I agree with Martin. It's important to remember our industrial heritage. It's a wonderful photo.
 
A truly beautiful photograph! All those different shapes and the smoke…
 
KYsailor
beautiful image, however I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 50/60's and the smell ( sulfurous) from the coke ovens could be overwhelming in certain parts of town. They are all gone now, only a few remnants of the mills left to remind people what was there.....
BTW a beautiful kallitype, just starting with some Van Dykes -and hope I can ultimately make kallitype as nice as this.

Stacks at Homestead Pennsylvania - the old J&L mill https://ky-sailor.smugmug.com/Travel/Great-Allegheny-Passage/i-Mkxqw8v/A
 
Despite_it_all
Ahh the good 'ole days when we could pour, dump and pump out anything into the environment and it magically just went away without any repercussion to our livelihood whatsoever!

Nice composition!
 

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Device
FUJIFILM X-E4
Aperture
ƒ/13
Focal length
35.0 mm
Exposure time
1/180 second(s)
ISO
250
Filename
KoppersCoke-copy-sm.jpg
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1 MB
Date taken
Fri, 17 February 2023 2:02 PM
Dimensions
1548px x 2048px

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