Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

2006.7.140

Description

Black and white photo of a crane scooping up shell from a barge. Shell is unloaded from the barges by cranes with clam-shell buckets and moved by conveyors to a rotary shell washer where mud, sand, and tiny marine life must be washed from the shell to prevent the formation of mud rings in the lime kilns. After the shell has been washed, it is them moved to storage, or to the lime kilns, by conveyors.

Collection

Dow Chemical Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2006.7

Source or Donor

Unknown, Unknown

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

10 in