How Cane Sugar is Refined

An image of modern sugar refining that conveniently omits the harvesting process.

Model of one of The National Sugar Refining Company’s modern plants, as exhibited at A Century of Progress” International Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1933.” – Subtitle. This interesting cross-section of a sugar-refining factory was published in 1933 by the National Sugar Refining Company to promote its modern, clean product at the World’s Fair in Chicago that year. Nearly 80 different steps are numbered across a photographic image of a 19 ft. scale model exhibited at the fair.

Source: University of Chicago.