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Steam Shovel in Gravel Pit

Date: 07 18 1913
Description: Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho...
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Quarry and Crew at Stone Company

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of quarrymen posing with their implements. There are carts on tracks that lead to the cliffs of the quarry behind the group.
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Down in Granite Quarry

Date: 1910
Description: Two men stand on a ledge in the granite quarry in Montello. Three other men stand below. The side of the quarry rises up above the group in the background....
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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Montello Granite Co. Excursion

Date: 07 18 1905
Description: Officers, sales representatives and clients of the Montello Granite Company posing in the quarry. Most of the men are wearing ribbons pinned to their jacke...
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In the Quarry

Date: 1904
Description: A boy is standing and holding the bridle of a horse harnessed to an open wagon in the granite quarry. Ethel Richter, standing in the wagon with her sister ...
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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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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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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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