The home of Picher sublimed white lead.
A 1915 trade publication issued by the Picher Lead Company to promote its sublimed white lead, showing the firm's own works and plant for paint manufacturers and buyers. The photographs are soft-edged halftones of industrial interiors: a boiler-side plant with pipes and workers, long rows of tall cylindrical vessels, a storage room with lofted sheds, and a laboratory with shelved bottles and a long bench. A designer might take the vaporous vignetted edges, tonal greys, and utilitarian industrial character as period reference for early twentieth-century factory imagery.
