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Picture of Coal stoker to furnace for boiler.
Picture of storage building for off grade salt. This salt is used for unfreezing highways since it has more impurities in it.
Interior of a grainer building.
A roof top of a factory building with silos in the background.
Salt works evaporating sheds.
An aerial view of the factory with the salt water reserve tank in the foreground and other various buildings surrounding it.
A Salt Rake in use.  After the salt rake was installed, the salt was raked up automatically. (Steam went through under rake heating the brine)
Salt well.  Two men are standing in the distance next to a telephone pole.
A close-up shot of a coil.
Pipes running along side the exterior of a wall.
Buildings to the right and left with a silo in the distance.
Salt well with houses and another well in the background.

15. Salt Well

Aerial view of the salt works with salt water reserve tank in the foreground and surrounding buildings.
A salt well derrick in the midst of winter.
A smoke stack on the right billows steam or smoke, with a processing building in the center.
A smokestack in the center surrounded by salt works buildings.
Evaporating sheds for salt.
A brine storage reservoir with a building on the rightside.
Picture of 17 genuine Kanawha Salt Bags from J.Q. Dickinson and Co., Malden, W. Va.  Also bags of Charmco Feeds Screened Cracked Corn from the Charleston Milling Company, Charleston, W. Va.
Salt works buildings in the background and a field in front.
Picture of shed, smokestack is on left, grainer is behind. Coal brought in here. Small Stack on right is storage for cinders.
Pipes running into salt jugs.

26. Salt Jugs

These pictures made before 1898 'probably at same time as Thompson made picture of entire plant'--also shown in this collection. Picture in upper left corner shows salt piled on drain boards after being lifted by hand from the crystalizing vats. Right upper picture shows salt being packed in barrels for shipment. Middle scene is in cooper shop. 'All salt at that time was shipped in barrels.' Lower left scene shows barrels of salt on platform ready to lower down incline to load on barges. Until the New York Central Railroad 'formerly the K&M' was built, all salt was shipped by barge or taken across Kanawha River and loaded on C&O Railroad at South Malden.
Picture of salt water cistern at Dickinson Salt Works. Brine from all wells is piped to this cistern, which serves as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs in foundation of this cistern were put in about 1870.
Close up of a Bromine Still.  The salt has been removed and Bromine is now being extracted.
A salt well derrick.

32. Salt Well

Salt works buildings and salt workers. Cows visible in the foreground.
Factory alongside a river.
A salt water reserve tank.
Where calcium chloride is made. The evaportating tank with coil in tank.  The calcium is drained out below and became solid.
Salt on the assembly line.
A salt well derrick.
A salt mine car tied to a building on the left with a man standing to the right.
Salt well and salt dryer (in background) in the wintertime.
A building that is believed to be a salt dryer.
Pipes running to condensors in a building.
A towering smokestack to the right with railroad tracks running down the center and in the distance.    A truck sits in the center with its door open.
A salt well derrick.
A salt well derrick.

46. Salt Well

Brine Storage Tanks. The brine went from wells to storage tanks, the container in center of picture contains brine. The boiler furnishes heat, a pre-heating process for brine grainer. The brine came in from the left. Coal in foreground.
Factory buildings with a smokestack to the right.