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Quarry

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Description: View looking down at wooden structures at the bottom of a quarry. A barn is in the background at the top of the quarry.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Montello

Date: 1883
Description: Bird's-eye view of Montello, county seat of Marquette County. The granite quarry, woolen mill, and planing mill are clearly identified. A steamboat on Buf...
Print

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...
Photograph

Construction of Railroad

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Description: Group of men at the construction of a railroad branch line among piles of stones. Railroad ties placed on the ground are visible on the platform in the bac...
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry.
Photograph

Lime Kiln

Date: 1915
Description: The lime kiln, at right, at Toft Point. Crushed limestone from the nearby quarry was heated in the kiln to make whitewash. Evergreen trees and birches form...
Photograph

Workers and Crane at a Limestone Quarry

Date: 1976
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 ...
Photograph

Workers in Stone Quarry

Date: 1976
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...
Photograph

Rockwell Lime Quarry

Date: 1924
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...
Postcard

55 Ft. Ladder in Quarry

Date: 1904
Description: Photographic postcard view of the bottom of the quarry, with a ladder from the bottom of the pit to top. There is a shed at the foot of the ladder. Caption...
Postcard

View of Quarry from Cemetery

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Description: Partially colorized view looking down at a quarry. On the other side of the quarry is the town of Berlin, with dwellings and commercial buildings. Caption ...
Map or Atlas

Town 13, range 3 E.

Date: 07 1870
Description: This map of Ironton is pen-and-ink on paper and shows lots and block numbers, mill, foundry buildings, limestone quarry, iron mine, and roads. Relief is sh...
Photograph

Polisher at Work

Date: 1910
Description: A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n...
Photograph

Quarry at Red Granite

Date: 1910
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...
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Rock Crusher

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Description: View looking down along wooden planks and machinery towards smoke in the distance. Identified as the rock crusher, located on the east side upriver from to...
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Quarry Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

D-Line Pickup

Date: 1969
Description: D-Line model pickup. 1100-D 4x4 1/2 ton pickup. In the background a crane is loading an International Pay Hauler.
Photograph

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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