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| Date: | 05 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Truck-mounted Catepillar engine/compressor parked at Albert W. Gallagher Quarry on Highway 51 near the airport. The photograph was taken for Nagle-Hart Tra... |
| Date: | 10 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a colony of squatters in Sunset Point (Hoyt Park, Quarry Park), former quarry site. Home of John & Lottie Corcoran from 1924-1994. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit with conveying equipment. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | View from the east towards the Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit, showing conveying equipment. |
| Date: | 10 20 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the stone crushing plant of the Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Company on Highway 27 near Soldiers Grove, showing a truck being filled with... |
| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and Loading equipment at a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and loading machinery at a gravel pit. |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | A.M. Mickelson, 10 N. Owen Dr., inspecting the scene of the explosion at the base of Sunset point where three Madison boys were badly burned while playing ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bill Baker standing on top of a wall of the quarry on Basswood Island. |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, from the west, of the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. Gravel from the quarry was used in concrete for the construction of the power plant and dam. |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne... |
| Date: | 12 22 1937 |
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| Description: | Brookville locomotive pulling dump cars in a rock quarry owned by General Refractories Company. Two men can be seen sitting inside through the front window... |
| Date: | 10 05 1963 |
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| Description: | View down into a large gravel pit. A small, wooden cross is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of workers in a large quarry in Ableman. Several male workers are standing in the quarry among piles of rock with their work equipment. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This map of Door County, Wisconsin, from the early 20th century shows roads, schools, churches, creameries and cheese factories, orchards, docks, quarries,... |
| 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... |
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