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| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure advertising International heavy-duty trucks for construction. Features color photograph of two dump trucks hauling gravel in a quarry.... |
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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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A view of the Montello granite quarry with Montello Lake in the background. The sign in the foreground reads, "J.T. Barrett Pays Highest Prices for Furs, M... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | This 1867 manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the topography and geology of the Blue Mounds region in the Town of Brigham in Iowa County and the towns ... |
| 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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| Description: | Man driving a red Scout pickup with white cab top. Side of passenger side door has a sign that reads: "Fred K. Betts, III Limestone Quarry." Dump trucks an... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view, looking east, of the grounds and buildings of the Montello Granite Company. On the left, a train car with "Detroit Southern" painted on it stands o... |
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| Description: | A man is standing on the top of a racing car and posing as if the car is in motion. The man is wearing a white jumpsuit with patches on the chest, eyeglass... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man operating a Hough Pay Loader with crane and chutes. Trucks and automobiles are parked in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man operating a TD-30 Crawler Tractor. |
| Date: | 06 02 1925 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Man driving tractor pulling a trailer, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are driving industrial tractors pulling trailers that are being loaded at a granite quarry or mine. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| 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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