DescriptionDigital image of black-and-white photo of the former Maxwell House Coffee plant interior, Building 8, Process Building, first floor, from the southeast corner looking west, Hoboken, 2003. Original print 4" x 5". Photograph taken by Joseph Elliott, October and November, 2003. Photo location map 12, photo no. 79. Freeze dried operations took place in the Process Building. Packaging and processing of coffee was delivered as a slurry by hose from the percolators in the Soluble Building. The coffee was not full dried and it was laid out in thin sheets on an 80-foot long conveyor belt. the slurry moved slowly through the freezing process, manually cut with a butter knife, put into a plastic bag and placed on a rack. When the racks were full, the coffee was ground into crystals and put in a tote and brought back to the Manufacturing Building for packaging. Photograph was part of required federal and state documentation under the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the site by the property owners and developers, Maxwell Place on the Hudson. Demolition of these buildings commenced in June, 2004. See archives catalog 2004.042.0001 for more background and the source document. The source document includes photo location maps as well as all images as received in photocopy format. This digital scan was produced from an original photograph that was loaned for copying purposes.