Ansonia Brass, Waterbury December 12 2014
The factory has already closed, the salvage operation is just starting up.
Pictures from Ansonia Brass. August 9 2016
The salvage operation continues, almost nothing is left inside of this gigantic buildings. It all should be over by later in the Fall and after that they might start demolishing the buildings. Once thousand of people worked in these factories.
Ansonia Brass. Salvage Operation
The tools are laid down, the forklifts, the huge cranes, the machines are all idle now. The roofs are leaking and the seeping water creates small ponds inside the buildings with beautiful reflections of the metal structures.The company has closed down and only people you see now are the salvage operators taking apart the machines, …
Return to Ansonia Brass, Waterbury
Yesterday we, that is my friend Ted Roth and myself, returned to the Waterbury branch to the now closed Ansonia Brass factory. The place is getting cleaned up, bit by bit, quite a few of the machinery is gone now, probably on trucks on their way to their new home in Mexico. There is still …
Ansonia Brass
A few pictures from my last visit on may 12 2014, to the Ansonia Brass Factory in Waterbury , Connecticut. These are mainly detail shots, concentrating on trying to capture the feel and textures of some of the tools and machinery in the shop. Click on the thumbnails to see the pictures in …