1960 · Automated Post Office · Werk 747 von 1.871

The control tower inside a new mechanised post office hall of 1960 in Providence in Rhode Island, a glazed control room raised on four steel columns, its flat roof at seven metres sixty, glass panes all around in slim steel frames, inside it a man seen from behind in a white shirt at a sloping desk with rows of small lamps, around the tower under a roof of wide curved concrete shells grey conveyor belts on steel trestles and grey sheet-steel sorting machines, several of them standing still under pale canvas dust sheets, two workers seen from behind at a hand cart, daylight from long bands of windows on the left.