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Picture of Coal stoker to furnace for boiler.

1. 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.

2. Storage Building for Off Grade Salt

Interior of a grainer building.

3. Interior of Grainer

A roof top of a factory building with silos in the background.

4. Rooftop of Salt Works Building

5. Farm Boy Balances on Pipes in front of a Salt Well

6. Grainer at Salt Works in Kanawha Valley

Salt works evaporating sheds.

7. Evaporating Sheds, Part of Salt Manufacturing in Kanawha Valley

An aerial view of the factory with the salt water reserve tank in the foreground and other various buildings surrounding it.

8. Salt Well and Brine Storage Tank

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)

9. Salt Rake

10. Rooftop of Salt Works Building

Salt well.  Two men are standing in the distance next to a telephone pole.

11. Salt Wells

A close-up shot of a coil.

12. Coil for Evaporating Bromide.

Pipes running along side the exterior of a wall.

13. Pipes To Preheater from Settling Tank

Buildings to the right and left with a silo in the distance.

14. Salt Well Buildings

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.

16. Dickinson Salt Works

17. Blacksmith Shop at Dickinson Salt Works.

A salt well derrick in the midst of winter.

18. One of the First Salt Wells Drilled for J.Q. Dickinson & Company

A smoke stack on the right billows steam or smoke, with a processing building in the center.

19. Salt Hopper

A smokestack in the center surrounded by salt works buildings.

20. Smokestack and Salt Industry Buildings

Evaporating sheds for salt.

21. Evaporating Sheds

A brine storage reservoir with a building on the rightside.

22. Kanawha Valley Salt Works

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.

23. Genuine Kanawha Salt Bags

Salt works buildings in the background and a field in front.

24. Salt Dryer and Barn

Picture of shed, smokestack is on left, grainer is behind. Coal brought in here. Small Stack on right is storage for cinders.

25. Shed, Smokestack and Grainer in Salt Camp

Pipes running into salt jugs.

26. Salt Jugs

27. Salt pile and Copper Shovel

28. One of the First Salt Wells Drilled for J.Q. Dickinson & Company

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.

29. Collage Images of the Salt Industry

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.

30. Salt Water Cistern at Dickinson Salt Works

Close up of a Bromine Still.  The salt has been removed and Bromine is now being extracted.

31. Bromine Still

A salt well derrick.

32. Salt Well

Salt works buildings and salt workers. Cows visible in the foreground.

33. Brook Salt Furnace.

Factory alongside a river.

34. Salt Works and Reflection in River

A salt water reserve tank.

35. Brine Storage Tank

Where calcium chloride is made. The evaportating tank with coil in tank.  The calcium is drained out below and became solid.

36. Calcium Chloride Tank

Salt on the assembly line.

37. Interior of a Salt Factory

38. Field Adjacent to Salt Works

A salt well derrick.

39. J. Q. Dickinson & Company Salt Well

A salt mine car tied to a building on the left with a man standing to the right.

40. Salt Mine Car

Salt well and salt dryer (in background) in the wintertime.

41. Salt Well and Salt Dryer (In Background)

A salt well derrick.

42. J. Q. Dickinson & Company Salt Well

A building that is believed to be a salt dryer.

43. Salt Dryer

Pipes running to condensors in a building.

44. Condensors for Bromine Recovery

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.

45. Salt Works

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.

47. Brine Storage Tanks

Factory buildings with a smokestack to the right.

48. Evaporating Sheds, Salt Manufacturing in Kanawha Valley