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  • An New Year's Eve, a steam line is extended outside the plant to power whistles and a callilope. The Pratt calliope is controlled by a keyboard which operates the solenoid valves.
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  • The spectators in the midst of the steam and cacophony.
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  • Clouds of steam rise into the night sky, marking a festive beginning to the new year.
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  • The whistles release huge clouds of steam.
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  • A hat body, shaped with only a suggestion of a crown and brim, on a rack over a steam generator, being steamed prior to shaping.
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  • A partially-shaped felt hat over the steam generator, being re-steamed for further shaping.
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  • Cords called ropes, with slipknots pre-tied and ready to be used for shaping hang in front of a steam rack with a straw hat body on it.
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  • A straw hat on a block after steaming, with a tipper block pressing the center crease in place. On the left is a rack over a steam generator; hanging from the hat block are cords used to form the fold between the crown and the brim, as well as to shape the edge of the brim.
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  • A horse-drawn steam fire engine made by the La Fance company, Elmira, New York, in 1901. This engine, in the New York City Fire Museum,  was used in Brooklyn.
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  • Conrad Milster, in the white sweatshirt and vintage-style engineer's cap, the Pratt engineer in charge of the power plant, explains the procedures to the crowd.
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  • The whistles were salvaged from steamships, railroad engines and other sources.
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  • Sounding the whistles.
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  • A spectator covers her ears against the deafening sound of the whistles.
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  • The public is allowed to tour the power plant both before and after the whistles are blown. The gallery is festooned with holiday lights.
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  • The Pratt Institue power plant, in operation since 1887, is the oldest operating plant of its kind in the American northeast.
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  • The whistles are blown one at a time at first.
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  • The spectators include neighbors, students, and at least one alumnus of the class of 1974.
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  • The crowd watching the calliope.
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  • The calliope is played by a series of spectators with more or less musical abilities.
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  • After midnight, trigger lines are passed to the spectators, so all the whistles can be blown at once.
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  • Illustrations of headgear from arond the world serve as insiration, along with a Mexican-inspired skull mask.
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  • On the left, a horse-drawn steam fire engine made by the La Fance company, Elmira, New York, in 1901. In the background on the right is a "Metropolitan" fire engine, patented 1898, by American a France.
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  • Shaping a steamed straw hat body over a block.
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  • A wooden block made up of brim and crown sections ready for a hat to be shaped over it into a fedora. In the background, a straw hat body is being steamed.
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  • A server with a Tasmanian ocean trout and mushroom rice pot at SakaMai. The fish is steamed on a bed of rice, and the server breaks up the fish and mixes it with the rice at the table.
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