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| Description: | View across water toward the marble quarries at the edge of Dorset. They are said to be the oldest in the country and provided the marble for buildings suc... |
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| Description: | The marble company employees at work in a quarry. By 1885 the Rutland quarries employed about 3,000 workers. |
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| Description: | A view of a marble quarry in Sylacauga, "The Marble City," which is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world. The bed is ... |
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| Description: | The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848. The region became a major world center for slate. The view is from near the bottom of th... |
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| Description: | The quarry landing and slate defense of the Bangor Slate Quarry. The slate industry was begun in Bangor by Robert M. Jones in 1848 and soon the region beca... |
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| Description: | A man holds a large saw in a stone quarry in Bermuda. Bermuda rock is a stratified and calcareous sandstone, ranging in hardness and density. |
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| Description: | The American Lime and Stone Company, Plant Number One. It was founded in 1901. Caption reads: "No. 1 Plant of the Famous Lime Industries, Bellefonte, PA." |
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| Description: | View of Leathem D. Smith Stone Company, which expanded after 1918. A factory building is in the background, and a steam shovel is working in the foreground... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk... |
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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 down railroad tracks toward a group of six men posing outdoors at the power house. There is a pile of large rocks near the group of men at the corner ... |
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| 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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| 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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| Description: | Group of men posing outdoors among large stones. Caption on back reads: "Shaping stone for monuments, Montello Granite Co., Montello, Wis." |
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| Description: | View looking across the quarry, which has trees and plants growing up the sides on the left, and smaller rocks and other debris are toward the bottom. Ladd... |
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| Description: | View down two sets of railroad tracks. There is an empty cart on the left set of tracks, and one cart full of large pieces of stone on the right set of tra... |
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| Description: | View across open field toward a large group of men posing on a large pile of granite. There is a large industrial building in the background on the right. ... |
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