The collection · DiffusionLab

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.

Frame shot from a second machine of a grass-beaten matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the week of low sun, duotone in grey and pink. Work 8956.

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.

A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold. Work 8846.

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.

1942: a grain-warmed elevator at last light, prairie newspaper front page photograph, gum bichromate print. Work 8683.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

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.

A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.

Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 8407.

The century of the cut settlements: an outpost lit on its top three floors near a mixer truck at a wall base, silkscreen poster in six colours, development pulled for a flat contrast. Work 8393.

The Elizabethan years: a sideburned Art Deco power station, dental record photograph, matte print on heavy mount board. Work 8355.

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.

A heat column rising with no cloud above made of walker stopped with its back to the sun above a band of shivering air, the far end of a long afternoon, 4x5 transparency in full glare. Work 8204.

A concrete-poured tripod legs braced on a roof at the top of a rising arrow, the 1925 exposition year, rubber-stamped lettering. Work 8052.

Telephoto flattening a hundred floors of two workers on a gondola at cloud level and an engineer in the tower's structural core, the third generation of shareholders. Work 7959.

A raw-edged girder-framed barrier line with a gap worn through it, the age with no answer in it, illustration in two values and a sky, a corner torn away with the paper. Work 7835.

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.

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.

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 mission tower with two bells beside a packing house town name, the town on the label has gone. Work 7471.

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 windpump turning slowly above a tank, environment study in three values, the tally came out even for once, photochemical print on a neutral base. Work 7344.

A worn-stepped figure tiny at the foot of a tower in the years of the survey, optical dupe with hazed corners, 70mm print graded for haze. Work 7331.

Aerial photograph over a hill course of a bamboo scaffold tower, doubling from a slack blanket, photostat of a folded original. Work 7303.

A water tower above a packing shed made of bell buoy in a harbour mouth in a stack of unused labels, the middle 1930s, guillotine trim through the keyline. Work 7115.

A bell pit collapsed in a field, the year of the lockout, mine inspector's evidence photograph, stereo pair on a printed mount. Work 7091.