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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. |
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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 & ... |
| 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: | 12 22 1937 |
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| Description: | Brookville locomotive pulling dump cars in a rock quarry owned by General Refractories Company. Two men can be seen sitting inside through the front window... |
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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: | A quarry of Alaska Marble Company at Calder, with men at work. Photograph published by Winter and Pond Company. Caption reads: "Marble Quarry, Calder, Ala... |
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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: | 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... |
| 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: | Rock piles at the quarry at Red Granite. Poles, wires and machinery are on the edge of the quarry in the middle distance. Two men are walking or standing o... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Six men are posing on horse-drawn wagons at quarry houses for the Montello Granite Co. A large building is on the right, and a pile of stone and two small ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Steam drill at work in quarry at Montello Granite Co. A man is standing on the right operating the drill. There are ladders against the stone cliff in the ... |
| 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 towards railroad tracks and men working with large pieces of stone. In the distance is the town of Berlin. Caption at bottom reads: "Granite Quarry — ... |
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