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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Stone quarry, with men working near a wagon, and at the base of the hill. In the background is a steep hill with trees. |
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| Description: | The stone quarry. There is a meadow in front of it. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a quarry with water at the bottom. Caption reads: "A Pit at the 'Klondike' Granite Quarry, Berlin, Wis." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| 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... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Sand and gravel pit used by the Dane County highway department as a source of supply. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of the Indiana Monument at the Andersonville National Cemetery. The monument was made of Montello granite at a cost of $10,000 i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of the Illinois Memorial at Andersonville National Cemetery. A bronze sculpture depicting Columbia, Youth and a Maiden is mounte... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking southeast at a cut face of the granite quarry. A worker stands on a ledge on the right. There are ropes and ladders in the quarry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View over quarry towards two men in suits sitting at the top edge of the cut face of the granite quarry. In the background is a house at the top of the hil... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument on the grounds of the Green County Courthouse. A sculpture of a soldier stands atop the massive base made of Mo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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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| 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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