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Montello Granite Co. Excursion
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Officers, sales representatives and clients of the Montello Granite Company posing in the quarry. Most of the men are wearing ribbons pinned to their jackets. The printed key to the identification of the men is mounted on the reverse of the photograph.
July 18, 1905
Jenks, J. Morgan
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Montello Quarry Scene
1910
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.
Down in Granite Quarry
1910
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. Several bore holes are apparent on the cu...
Quarry Scene
1910
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 hill near the edge of the quarry.
Quarry Workers
1878
Stereograph of a bearded man with vest and suit posing on a narrow gauge railroad at the granite works in Montello. Workmen are posing around him. Most of the men are facing the camera, but two men...
Polisher at Work
1910
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 narrow gauge tracks enter the shed.
Paving Blocks
1910
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 narrow gauge railway as a rail car crosses abov...
