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Loading Rock from Quarry

Date: 1894
Description: Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car.
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P&H 25-Ton Type "C" Crane with Covered Trolley

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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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Cohn & Robertson Granite Mfg. Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Cohn & Robertson Granite Manufacturing Company of Granite Heights and Wausau, Wisconsin, with a view of workers loading a C.M.&St.P. rail...
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Scout Terra Loading Up

Date: 1976
Description: Scout Terra being loaded up with rubble.
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Man Driving Scout in Quarry

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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...
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D-Line Model 1100-D

Date: 1969
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man standing with a 1/2 ton D-Line Model 1100-D 4x4 pickup. In the background a crane is loading an International Payhauler. Ro...
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Model 65 Payhauler

Date: 1960
Description: A man stands in the foreground on the left with arm raised while a Bucyrus-Erie power shovel dumps a load into a Model 65 Payhauler. Off road rock truck. T...
Postcard

Montello Granite Works

Date: 1905
Description: A workman is standing on the platform of a wooden derrick at the granite quarry. A two-story wood frame building is behind the derrick. Large granite block...
Postcard

Montello Granite Works

Date: 1906
Description: Charles Richter, second from left, poses in front of a building at the top of the Montello granite quarry. His wife stands at the front of the group, weari...
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Quarry Workers

Date: 1878
Description: Stereograph of a bearded man with vest and suit posing on a narrow gauge railroad at the granite works in Montello. Workmen are posing around him. Most of ...
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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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Truck Being Loaded with Asphalt

Date: 10 01 1928
Description: View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck being loaded by a large hopper for material for laying asphalt. Behind the hopper is a crane, w...
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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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