Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Stone industry and trade
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of the Fox River. Small boats are docked along the left bank where factory buildings stand. The facade features advertisements for Wrigley's Spearmint... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 22 1925 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men fill the bed of a Model 103 International truck with cinders from a chute at the Solway Process Company plant. |
| Date: | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of the docks at Rockport Granite Company, operating from 1864-1927. A sailing ship can be seen in the water near industrial buildings. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1988 |
|---|---|
| Description: | "These unused lime kilns are located at Marblehead." |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad stone crusher. There is a large group of workmen posing along the work site. |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a truck with a trailer containing blocks of stone parked in front of Moon Freight Lines, Inc. The truck is a red International Harvester C... |
| 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... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across overgrown field towards a wooden structure with a tall smokestack. Identified as probably the rock crusher, located on the east side upriver fr... |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Colorized photograph of the Badger Granite Compnay, maker of monuments and gravestones. There is a church in the background. Caption reads: "Badger State G... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Letterhead of the Miracle Pressed Stone Company, with a three-quarter view of a cement building block, nestled in the curve of the decorative capital "M" o... |
| Date: | 1923 |
|---|---|
| Description: | This map shows the movement of stone to cities along the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view looking west over the Montello Granite Company's works framed by an irregular mask. Two wooden derricks and irregular blocks of granite are i... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
