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Wisconsin Granite Company — Granite Quarry

Date: 1910
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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Scene in the Quarry

Date: 1910
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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Where Granite is Quarried

Date: 1910
Description: View across the quarry toward three men standing on a ledge below a large rock face. Ladders are set up above and below the ledge. Another group of men are...
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Large Derrick in Quarry

Date: 1910
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...
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Steam Drill

Date: 1910
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 ...
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Quarry Houses

Date: 1910
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 ...
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Wisconsin Granite Company — Granite Quarry

Date: 1910
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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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Man driving tractor pulling a trailer, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.
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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.
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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving an industrial tractor pulling a tractor that is being loaded while under a hopper at a granite quarry or mine.
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Fleet of Dump Trucks

Date: 03 01 1928
Description: Fleet of dump trucks parked in a row. Men are sitting in the driver's seats of the trucks, and the beds of the trucks are raised up in the air in the dumpi...
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UD-24 — Industrial Power Units (Misc.)

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Industrial Power Units (Misc.)." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Roseburg Sand & Gravel Co., Rosebur...
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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel.
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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men are driving industrial tractors pulling trailers that are being loaded at a granite quarry or mine.
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TD-14A — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-14A — Road Building." Where Taken: "MS" Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Angell Construction Co., Lansing, Mich. Used with Bucyrus...
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UD-24 — Industrial Power Units (Misc.)

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Industrial Power Units (Misc.)." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Roseburg Sand & Gravel Co., Rosebur...
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Compressor at Gallagher Quarry

Date: 05 14 1943
Description: Truck-mounted Catepillar engine/compressor parked at Albert W. Gallagher Quarry on Highway 51 near the airport. The photograph was taken for Nagle-Hart Tra...
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Crushing and Loading Equipment

Date: 04 19 1928
Description: Crushing and Loading equipment at a gravel pit.
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Men at Quarry with Horses and Trucks

Date: 06 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of a quarry. Two men in the center are standing behind teams of four horses pulling equipment. Behind them are men posing in trucks parked at...
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Construction Site

Date: 06 02 1925
Description: Truck outdoors under a building with conveying machinery. A sign painted on the machinery reads: "5 YD LOADING HOPPER MFD. BY RUSSEL GRADER MFG. CO."

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