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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger crane design with cab-operated dial controls. The stencil on the crane says "Pawling and Harnischfeger ... |
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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: | Carthage was once well-known for the fine-grained, extremely dense grey limestone, "Carthage Marble," that came from the stone quarries. Caption reads: "St... |
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| Description: | An unfinished architectural project at Carthage Building Stone Company, which was managed by J. P. Newell with Millard Bryan as superintendent. By 1914, lo... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Two workers and a large yellow crane at a limestone quarry. There are large blocks of roughly cut limestone, and numerous trees are in the background. The ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color photo of workers cutting blocks of limestone in a quarry. There are what appear to be moveable platforms on tracks at the bottom of the face of the a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Colorized photograph of the Badger Granite Compnay, maker of monuments and gravestones. There is a church in the background. Caption reads: "Badger State G... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west over the Montello Granite Company's works framed by an irregular mask. Two wooden derricks and irregular blocks of granite are i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from below looking up a rockface toward a derrick at the top of a quarry. Men are standing along the top nearby. Caption on back reads: "Quarry view w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking across the quarry, which has trees and plants growing up the sides on the left, and smaller rocks and other debris are toward the bottom. Ladd... |
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