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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... |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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| Description: | View down hill into quarry with men posed working the rock face behind a bobsled pulled by a team of two horses. A man is sitting in a cutter sleigh pulled... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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. |
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