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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bill Baker standing on top of a wall of the quarry on Basswood Island. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International truck owned by the Vowell Material Company parked in a road. There are buildings and rocky terrain in the background. The original caption... |
| Date: | 10 12 1938 |
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| Description: | Men work with a Universal crusher, used to crush 400 yards of gravel in 8 hours. The crusher was powered by an International PA-100 power unit owned by E.F... |
| Date: | 10 05 1963 |
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| Description: | View down into a large gravel pit. A small, wooden cross is in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View across water toward the marble quarries at the edge of Dorset. They are said to be the oldest in the country and provided the marble for buildings suc... |
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| Description: | The marble company employees at work in a quarry. By 1885 the Rutland quarries employed about 3,000 workers. |
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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: | Cables run across Flitcher's Slate Quarry, located in Bangor, a region which became a major world center for slate. The slate industry was begun in Bangor ... |
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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: | Edison Quarry was opened in the largest outcropping area of Precambrian marble south of the Franklin - Sterling Hill area. Edison's crusher is said to be a... |
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| Description: | A man holds a large saw in a stone quarry in Bermuda. Bermuda rock is a stratified and calcareous sandstone, ranging in hardness and density. |
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| Description: | The American Lime and Stone Company, Plant Number One. It was founded in 1901. Caption reads: "No. 1 Plant of the Famous Lime Industries, Bellefonte, PA." |
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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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad stone crusher. There is a large group of workmen posing along the work site. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across the bottom of a quarry toward a group of men posing around a horse who appears to be pulling an open railroad car on railroad tracks. Steep cli... |
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