5 Photos NATIONAL GYPSUM Views & Equipment TOWERS, 1938 Start Price USD 40.00 Current Price USD 40.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, September 05, 2008 End Time Friday, September 12, 2008 Location Beautiful NW New Jersey See more about '5 Photos NATIONAL GYPSUM Views & Equipment TOWERS, 1938' Description NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY Five original 8 ½” x 11” photographs   Unloading Tower & Electric Drive Dated:  December 1938 Many landscape and equipment details in the photos.  The names of the ships I can make out are "Haukefjell" and "Christian Krohg" At auction are five of a series of eighty-six black-and-white photographs which were in a loose leaf binder stamped on the front “Mead Morrison Mfg. Co. Chicago”.  The photographs themselves are on paper with various Robins logos as the years go by.  “Robins Conveying Belt Company, Passaic, New Jersey – Material Handling Equipment”.  The photos are dated between 1918 and 1938, though not every individual one has a date on it.  Each photograph is 8 ½” x 11” unless otherwise noted.  The paper is not what we would think of as photo paper today, but instead a very heavy matte stock, which has held up well through the years.  The photographs are indexed.  These are numbers 1415 A, D, G, H, J & K  The photographs appear to be a portfolio of projects from around the United States and around the world which used Robins Conveying Belt/Mead-Morrison equipment.  It was probably kept by an officer of Mead Morrison, and seems to be in chronological order.  Each photograph has a typewritten description on it.     Robins Conveying Belt Company was founded in 1896 by Thomas Robins, who devised the first practical conveyor system for moving heavy, abrasive materials utilizing steel rollers and rubber covered coating belting.  This allowed for the handling of bulk materials such as aggregates, ore, and coal.  Thomas Robins did his development work at the Ogden Iron Mine at Sparta Mountain, New Jersey, which was owned and operated by Thomas Alva Edison.  His company exists today as Hewitt-Robins Conveyor Equipment.   As far as I can determine, for the period of these photographs, Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Company of Chicago was a division of the Robins Conveying Belt Company.   I will be listing all 86 photos individually.  Below is an alphabetical list of locales which are pictured in the set of photographs (not all the photographs indicate their locale):   American Rolling Mills, Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co. England, Atlantic Gypsum, Bell & Zoller Coal, Brooklyn Union Gas, Buffalo General Electric Co. (Tonowanda New York), C. Reiss Coal, Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway, Cimco Development Havana Illinois, Colorado Fuel & Iron, Commonwealth Edison, Deepwater Operating Company, Inland Steel, Interlake Iron, Kings County Lighting, Koppers, Morton Salt, National Gypsum, Ontario Paper, Philadelphia Electric, Public Service Engineering Kearney Station, Republic Steel (Trumbull Cliffs Furnace), Richelieu Coal, Bethlehem Steel, Sin Mac Towing Sorel, Quebec, Sin Ram Brothers, South African Iron & Steel Pretoria, Sprague Terminal, Super Power Co of Illinois, Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, Michigan, United States Gypsum, Wheeling Steel (West Virginia), White Fuel, Wilmington Terminal North Carolina, Wisconsin Gas & Electric   The photographs are either landscape showing all of part of the facility, or details of control room equipment.  Here is a partial list of the types of equipment shown in the 86 photographs:  gantry tower, car dumper, car haul, coal grab buckets (different sizes and types), grab hoisting machine, control panel, rail clamps, towing engine, coal power plant, coal bridge, coal handling system, hoisting engine, boom conveyors, belt conveyors, drag buckets, electric drive, towers (many, various).  Also lots of neat secondary items in the photos such as rail cars, freighters, cars, people, buildings, views of the whole plant and background.  Photos are clear and detailed enough to show all this very nicely   A few photos have the photographer’s name:  Fairchild Aerial Surveys New York City, Everett Braun Photographer, Irving Underhill Photographer The photographs are black-and-white, all in good condition as shown in the auction photo.  They are clear with plenty of fascinating detail to be seen, background interest as well as the object of the photo itself Shipping is a flat rate of $3 for media mail or $5 for priority mail (your choice) to US addresses.  Shipping for International buyers is US$13 for Air Mail.  You pay shipping only on the first photo you buy from this set, so if you are patient and wait for me to get them all listed, as many photos as you purchase will all ship for the same fee in one envelope Please visit my other auctions for an extraordinary collection of rare books and technical journals Place a Bid!