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| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | View from the east towards the Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit, showing conveying equipment. |
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| Description: | View of workers from the Montello Granite Company heading down the street to lunch after the noon whistle. |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 25-ton type "C" I-beam crane holding two stone blocks at the Pfeiffer Stone Company. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & ... |
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| Description: | A view of a marble quarry in Sylacauga, "The Marble City," which is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world. The bed is ... |
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| Description: | The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848. The region became a major world center for slate. The view is from near the bottom of th... |
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| Description: | A view of a slate mine. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848 and the region became a major world center for slate. |
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| Description: | Cables run across the Bangor Slate Quarry, a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848. |
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| Description: | The quarry landing and slate defense of the Bangor Slate Quarry. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848 and soon the region beca... |
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| Description: | A slate quarry landing is shown in Bangor, a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848. |
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| Description: | Ladders extend into the quarry at Wisconsin Granite Company, and factory buildings and towers can be seen above. Three men stand near a railroad car at the... |
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| Description: | A man stands outside the rock crusher at the Wisconsin Granite Company quarry. To the right, railroad tracks span the side of the building. |
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| Description: | View of Leathem D. Smith Stone Company, which expanded after 1918. A factory building is in the background, and a steam shovel is working in the foreground... |
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| Description: | View looking down at wooden structures at the bottom of a quarry. A barn is in the background at the top of the quarry. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Cohn & Robertson Granite Manufacturing Company of Granite Heights and Wausau, Wisconsin, with a view of workers loading a C.M.&St.P. rail... |
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| Description: | Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac... |
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| Description: | View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The lime kiln, at right, at Toft Point. Crushed limestone from the nearby quarry was heated in the kiln to make whitewash. Evergreen trees and birches form... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from low section of quarry towards the processing plant up a steep rise. Tracks for hauling limestone are on the left near small sheds and a marshy ar... |
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