Cool China Milling Services images

Some cool China milling services images:

The Old Coffee Mill and a Call for Flickr & Facebook to increase their small pic sizes

Image by Stuck in Customs
It is old indeed! This is from my newly discovered ghost town and favorite place outside of Austin to go for a fun afternoon shoot! As much as I love coffee shops, I hate to see one fallen apart into such a state of disrepair… but it does make a good candidate for some HDR!

If possible, zoom into the Flickr one and see the original size if you like all the details in these sorts of places. The one here on the blog is 900 pixels across but the original is 6048 pixels across, so the blog cuts out about 6x of the detail! But, it’s better than the paltry Facebook or Flickr sizes which are so tiny that it’s kind of depressing… I think that is a major problem with those two services… the very small default size of the image usually does not do it justice. They should have two interfaces – a low and high bandwidth interface. That’s not too much to ask here in late 2009, is it?

from the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

Von Spreckelson Mill blown up by dynamite (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Von Spreckelson Mill blown up by dynamite

[1909]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows a saw mill and a garage owned by Albert von Spreckelson in Indianapolis, which was destroyed by dynamite by union activists protesting the contractor’s use of non-union labor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Fair play, National Railway Publ. Co., 1911, p. 105-106.)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09158

Call Number: LC-B2- 2192-7-x

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley

Image by politisite
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley – Media Credit – Iron Mill News Service
Media Credit – Politisite.com
Media Credit – Albert N. Milliron