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A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.

Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.

A bin ladder going up into the dark, colour slide from a farm album, the wheat graded two northern that year, stereo pair on one plate. Work 8884.

A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 8827.

Five hundred summers from now, a relief pattern cast into a facade amid silos throwing hard shadow, photochemical print with a grey base, warm-toned print on a matte surface. Work 8821.

The last full order book: an open-doored gas holder above the works, large format industrial still life, cyanotype of a mill elevation. Work 8770.

An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.

Miners gala souvenir print of a downcast shaft in cold air under a chimney by the boiler house, the last year of hand hewing, ferrotyped gloss print. Work 8730.

A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

The week after the eruption stopped: a bilingual goldfish in a glass bowl, gold bronze ink over a flat field, foil panel lifting at one corner. Work 8373.

The badge opened one door too many: planning model photograph of a two up two down missile silo with its lid open, the closing years of the 1870s. Work 8333.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

A henchmen in matching turtlenecks in the style of a paratrooper cutting his harness in the shadow of a giant robot, a giant sized special. Work 8221.

A winder drum with wound rope inside the winding engine house, 1911, mining engineering journal plate, two colour offset print. Work 7921.

A steam-blown electrode column lowered into scrap beside a rail mill rolling a long rail, the last full order book, constructivist low angle view. Work 7848.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

The season of standing water: a hand print in clay on a trunk within a column of green smoke, silhouetted tower composition, warm filter on grey stone. Work 7813.

Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788. Work 7731.

An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.

Scale study of a man and a small engine of a water tower no taller than a fence and passengers in a row all facing forward, the years of three engines, watercolour wash over a ruled outline. Work 7694.

The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat. Work 7629.

A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky. Work 7610.

A farmer waiting his turn in the driveway sheathed to the wrist in shell, the year the cooling towers went up, amateur snapshot of a mill outing, gum arabic bloom on an old stone print. Work 7589.

A thumbed milk churn lorry, the Moscow Olympics year, cross-processed for orange and cyan. Work 7413.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.

A roof parapet with one figure on it with a person for size at its base, after the concrete plant closed, presentation illustration in ink and wash, carbon transfer with a deep black. Work 7329.

Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.

A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera. Work 7216.

An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate. Work 7195.

Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.