Electrical – Need help identifying this old style fuse box

I find it a little puzzling that you have a modern panel inside your home and a separate fuse box dedicated to the dryer.

Confirm that this is the case - double check your modern panel to see if you've overlooked a 220v circuit that has tripped.

If it is a simple tripped circuit, reset it. If it happens again call an electrician to find out why.

Otherwise:

• Call an electrician and confirm what you suspect.

• Get a quote to run a new line to the dryer and hooked into the modern panel.

• Call the power company and inform them of what is going on. It is possible that this has been overlooked and may be eligible to have it fixed for free since it is of no fault of your own. In my area the power company is responsible for deficiencies such as the one you are describing.

If you haven't burned to a crisp yet...BURNINATE THIS PANEL

This box is very definitely a FPE Stab-Lok, and thus needs to be burninated with extreme predjudice before it burns your house down!

I'd simply replace it outright; ordinarily, an Eaton retrofit interior would be an option, but your panel is stuffed to the gills with tandems, and since tandem GFCI/AFCI breakers are not a thing, you will need far more spaces on your new panel than will fit in a cabinet that size (a 24 circuit CH main breaker retrofit interior requires 29" of height, and you only appear to have about 24"). I would get the largest panel I can, however, to avoid having "overstuffed electrical panel" syndrome again in the future.

As a result, a bare minimum replacement for this application would be a 30 space, 100A, main breaker unit; however, I would splash out and get a 42 or 54 space, 200/225A unit and downbreaker it to 100A (either through swapping to a lower amp main or using a backfed 100A branch breaker with a hold-down as the main as not all 200A panels can accept a 100A breaker in the main breaker position).