Tefft's Cotton Mill in Cannelton, IN, completed in 1851.  Shown before its restoration.
English: This is a photo of the southwest (front) elevation of the Cannelton Cotton Mill in Cannelton taken in 1974 by Jack E. Boucher for the Historic American Engineering Record. It is one of 42 black and white images in the file. TITLE: Cannelton Cotton Mill, Front & Fourth Streets, Cannelton, Perry County, IN CALL NUMBER: HAER IND,62-CANN,2- REPRODUCTION NUMBER: [See Call Number] MEDIUM: Measured Drawing(s): 8 (24 x 36) Photo(s): 42 (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.) Data Page(s): 11 plus cover page Color Transparencies: 4 DATE: Documentation compiled after 1968. CREATOR: Historic American Engineering Record, creator RELATED NAME(S): Tallman & Bucklin; Buchanan, George; James, Charles T.; McGregor, Alexander; Newcomb, Horatio Dalton; Smith, Hamilton; Tefft, Thomas Alexander NOTE: Survey number HAER IN-1 Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN18). Building/structure dates: 1851 initial construction National Register Number: 75000011 SUBJECTS: INDIANA--Perry County--Cannelton stone buildings cotton mills textile industry OTHER TITLE: Indiana Cotton Mills COLLECTION: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGID: [1] CONTENTS: Photograph caption(s): 1. GENERAL DISTANT VIEW SHOWING CANNELTON COTTON MILL FROM OPPOSITE SHORE OF RIVER; 2. TELEPHOTO VIEW SHOWING CANNELTON COTTON MILL FROM OPPOSITE SHORE OF RIVER; 3. SOUTHWEST (FRONT) ELEVATION; 4. SOUTHWEST (FRONT) ELEVATION FROM WEST; 5. NORTHEAST (REAR) ELEVATION FROM THE EAST; 6. VIEW OF SOUTHEAST END FROM EAST; 7. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF SOUTHEAST END FROM EAST; 8. VIEW SHOWING TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 9. GROUND LEVEL VIEW OF SOUTHWEST ELEVATION FROM EAST; 10. VIEW FROM GROUND LEVEL OF SOUTHWEST ELEVATION FROM EAST; 11. TELEPHOTO VIEW OF WEST TOWER; 12. TELEPHOTO VIEW OF TWIN TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 13. TELEPHOTO VIEW SHOWING TWIN TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 14. DETAIL,TELEPHOTO VIEW OF TWIN TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 15. DETAIL, TELEPHOTO VIEW OF TWIN TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 16. TELEPHOTO VIEW OF TWIN TOWERS FROM SOUTHWEST; 17. VIEW SHOWING SECTION OF NORTHEAST (SANDSTONE) WALL FROM NORTHWEST AREA OF POWERHOUSE; 18. TELEPHOTO VIEW OF FACADE BETWEEN TWIN TOWERS, NOTE IRON BALUSTRADE BARRIER IN DOORWAY; 19. TELEPHOTO VIEW SHOWING FENESTRATION, SOUTHWEST FACADE, WEST END 20. GENERAL VIEW FROM NORTHWEST; 21. GENERAL VIEW FROM NORTHEAST OVER CITY SNOWING CANNELTON MILL AND RIVER IN THE DISTANCE; 22. VIEW SHOWING DATE STONE AND PORTAL; 23. VIEW SHOWING SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TOWER BASE; 24. DETAIL VIEW SHOWING STONE, SOUTHEAST END OF BUILDING; 25. GENERAL VIEW OF THIRD FLOOR FROM THE WEST; 26. VIEW OF THIRD FLOOR, SOUTHEAST END GENERAL; 27. VIEW TO NORTH IN ATTIC; 28. GENERAL VIEW IN ATTIC TO NORTHWEST; 29. VIEW OF THIRD FLOOR, WESTERLY DIRECTION; 30. VIEW SNOWING STAIRS AT THE SECOND LEVEL DETAIL; 31. VIEW SHOWING WALL CONSTRUCTION, AREA OF TOWER STAIRS; 32. INTERIOR VIEW OF FRONT WINDOW ON FOURTH FLOOR SOUTHWEST SIDE 33. ATTIC FLOOR CONSTRUCTION; 34. PHOTOCOPY OF REAR OF ONE OF A PAIR OF STONE WAREHOUSES NORTHEAST OF THE MILL, FROM THE FILES OF MRS. ROBERT CUMMINS, CANNELTON, IND.; 35. PHOTOCOPY OF BIRD'S-EYE VIEW FROM COLLECTION OF OTIS SAALMAN, TEL CITY, IND.; 36. PHOTOCOPY OF UNDATED HISTORIC VIEW OF SQUARE AND ROUND CHIMNEYS AND SOUTHWEST FACADE FROM SOUTHWEST, COURTESY OTIS SAALMAN, FROM THE CUMMINS COLLECTION (From unknown book).; 37. PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORIC VIEW OF CANNELTON COTTON MILL SHOWING SOUTHWEST FACADE AND NORTHWEST END FROM WEST, FROM FILE OF MRS. ROBERT CUMMINS OF CANNELTON, IND.; 38. PHOTOCOPY OF ARCHITECTURAL WASH DRAWING OF CANNELTON MILL 'designed by Tefft' COURTESY JOHN HAY LIBRARY, BROWN UNIVERSITY; 39. PHOTOCOPY OF CA. MID-19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT TITLED ON BACK 'HAMILTON SMITH,' FROM COLLECTION OF OTIS SAALMAN, TELL CITY, IND.; 40. PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORIC VIEW OF SOUTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, FROM SOUTH, NO DATE, FROM FILES OF MRS. ROBERT CUMMINS, CANNELTON IND.; 41. PHOTOCOPY OF HISTORIC SURVEY OF INDIANA COTTON MILLS, CANNELTON, INDIANA, SHOWING LOCATION OF ALL STRUCTURES IN THE CANNELTON MILL COMPLEX; 42. PHOTOCOPY OF DOCUMENT ENTITLED 'SURVEY OF INDIANA COTTON MILLS, On Which Insurance Is To Be Predicated' FROM THE OFFICE OF CHARLES GERBER, GERBER OIL COMPANY, CANNELTON, IND. CARD #: IN0117