Maysteel Power House-2

The old power house at the iron works in Mayville, Wisconsin. Later known as Maysteel, these iron works were the first in Wisconsin. Maysteel has now left Mayville, although it still has locations in the area. The building, on Iron Lane, is now used by a local machine shop and custom fabricating business. This building appears to be of 1920's or 1930's vintage. The photo was taken in September of 2015 with a Pentax 6x7 MLU medium format SLR equipped with a 45 mm f/4 SMC Pentax 67 lens on Ilford FP4+ film. The negative was enlarged optically with a Beseler 23CIIXL enlarger and a 100 mm f/5.6 Schneider Componon-S lens on Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Double Weight Fiber Base silver gelatin photo paper. Processing was done archivally using Kodak chemistry, with a final toning with Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner, treated with hypo clearing agent, and washed in an archival washer.

8" x 10" Print