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In the Quarry
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A boy is standing and holding the bridle of a horse harnessed to an open wagon in the granite quarry. Ethel Richter, standing in the wagon with her sister Blanche, is holding the reins. The girls' mother, Mary Richter, is standing beside the wagon. A wooden walkway leads to the Catholic church at the top of the hill. Mary's husband, Charles Richter, was an owner of the Montello Granite Co.
1904
Armour, A. H.
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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...
Catholic Church
1904
View from below of a small wooden church building standing at the edge of the Montello quarry. In the foreground cables stretch over the quarry hole. The printed inscription reads, "Montello Granit...
Montello Granite Works
1905
A workman is standing on the platform of a wooden derrick at the granite quarry. A two-story wood frame building is behind the derrick. Large granite blocks are supporting the upper edge of the qua...
Headstones
1908
Rows of granite headstones and plinths arranged in front of buildings at the Montello quarry. A derrick is standing in the background on the left; there is a tall smokestack at right. The printed c...
Quarry Houses
1910
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 buildings are on the left in the backgroun...
