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“Chudleigh Marble Quarry, in Devonshire” (England) |
“The Lizard, Cornwall: Cliffs of olive green serpentine.” (England) |
“Marble cliffs at Barracombe Bay.” |
“A cornish granite quarry.” (Cornwall, England) |
“A moor in cornwall strewn with granite boulders.” (Cornwall, England) |
“A weathereed crag of Cornish granite.” (Cornwall, England) |
“A Tennessee marble quarry, showing equipment.” (Tennessee, USA) |
“Marble quarry in Galway, Ireland, showing equipment.” |
“A Georgia marble quarry with its clean-cut walls.” (Georgia, USA) |
“Wire saw at work in the Galway marble quarry.” (Galway, Ireland) |
Picture from “The Freestone Quarries of Pyrmont, Sydney, |
(The following description is from the web site.) “The stone test wall was constructed to study the performance of stone subjected to weathering. It contains 2352 individual samples of stone, of which 2032 are domestic stone from 47 states, and 320 are stones from 16 foreign countries. Over 30 distinct types of stones are represented, some of which are not commonly used for building purposes. There are many varieties of the common types used in building, such as marble, limestone, sandstone, and granite. This site presents the existing data and pictures for each particular stone.”
Les Bartlett will be interpreting the Granite Collection Display on August 23, 2014, at 10:30 a.m., at the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, which will reopen in mid-August. (If you’re able to attend, be sure to view the photograph by Les Bartlett that has been installed on permanent display to the left of the auditorium doorway.) More information about Les and his photographic work and historical research on the Cape Ann granite quarry industry can be obtained on his Cape Ann Granite web site and blog.
One wall from the newly enhanced Granite Collection Display at the Cape Anne Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Leslie Bartlett’s new book, Break Stone – Water – Heart: The Lives & Struggles of Cape Ann’s Quarry Workers, will be available on Saturday and Sunday, November 2nd & 3rd, for the first book signing at the Lanesville Community Center located at Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts. He has prepared a You Tube video entitled, “Cape Ann Granite.”
Leslie Bartlett’s next book will be: Break Stone – Water – Heart: The Lives & Struggles of Cape Ann’s Quarry Workers
“Chapters on a Quarry Wall.” is one of Leslie Bartlett’s past installations.
Cape
Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
This photograph was a part
of the museum installation, and it is titled ‘Shadowing
Ibis.’
Leslie D. Barlett’s “Chapters on a Quarry Wall”
Photo Collection New York City, New York
May 5 - May 30, 2009
Give Me Your Hands: The Legacy of the Barre
Sculptors and Their Stone
This was one of Leslie D. Bartlett’s past presentations held
October 2 through December 15, 2011, at the
Michigan State University
College of Law.
“Successive waves of master stone sculptors, carvers, and quarrymen came to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This photography exhibition documents their lives, their craft, and the plight of some of the immigrant master stone sculptors who have labored with the granite stone from the quarries of Barre, Vermont....”
“The Carrara Mountains, showing railway to quarries.” Scientific American, April 8, 1899, pp. 215 |
“Loading the Marble, Quarries of Carrara.” Scientific American, April 8, 1899, pp. 215 |
“Transferring a block, weighing 40 tons, from the foot of the quarry to Carrara with a team of 40 oxen” |
“Avenza, the port of Carrara, whence the marble blocks are shipped to all parts of the world” |
(Description of “Dimension Stone” from the web site) “Dimension stone can be defined as natural rock material quarried for the purpose of obtaining blocks or slabs that meet specifications as to size (width, length, and thickness) and shape. Color, grain texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are normal requirements. Durability..., strength, and the ability of the stone to take a polish are other important selection criteria.”
(Description of “Aggregate” on the Wikipedia web site) “Construction aggregate, or simply ‘aggregate,’ is a broad category of coarse particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are a component of composite materials such as concrete and asphalt concrete; the aggregate serves as reinforcement to add strength to the overall composite material.”
Front cover of A Plant and Its Product, published by the Drew Daniels Granite Co., Waterbury, Vermont ( circa 1910) |
The Drew Daniels Granite Co. Shed No. 2, Waterbury, Vermont (circa 1910) |
The Heald cemetery memorial design in A Plant and Its Product, published by the Drew Daniels Granite Co., Waterbury, Vt. ( circa 1910) |
Front cover of the F. C. Eaton, Barre, Vermont, monumental catalog |
Inside front cover listing the companies whose monuments are included in this catalog |
“Hypostyle at Karnak...Ewing Galloway, N.Y.” (1923) |
“Colonnaded Hall at Karnak with square pillars and columns with lotus-bud capitals. Ewing Galloway, N.Y. (1923) |
Frong cover of Georgia Beauties Catalog No. Twenty-Two |
The Amtry cemetery stone of Georgia Marble (p. 2) |
Georgia Marble Finishing Works, Canton, Georgia |
German Limestone Quarry & Workers (film) – “Solnhofen Germany Limestone Quarry & Use of Limestone in Lithography 74872,” PeriscopeFilm LLC archive (old film of the quarry and men working in the quarry) “This short silent German film shows the Solnhofen Plattenkalk, or Solnhofen limestone, a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms…The subject of the film is not about fossils however, but about how the rock is quarried as a source of Lithographic limestone…The original source for lithographic limestone was the Solnhofen Limestone named after the quarries of Solnhofen where it was first found…This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive.…”
“The Granite Industry in New England,” by George Rich, in New England Magazine, February 1892, pp. 742-763 — in PDF format. |
Harrison Granite Co. Clientele & Monument Catalog Covers |
Title page of the Harrison Granite Co. Clientele & Monument Catalog |
Letter from Harrison Granite Co. to a customer in June 1921 |
“Fig. 5. Application of Gay’s Stone Saw in a Marble Quarry” |
“Figs 1, 2, and 3. Apparatus for Sawing Stone” |
“Fig. 4. Apparatus for Sawing Stone into Slabs” |
The following is a list of the photo captions included in this booklet. (There are several other unnamed photos in addition to a map of the area.) (pp. 8) “Berst House”; (pp. 9 & 10) “General View Quarry No. 4 looking west”; (pp. 16) “North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa.”; (pp. 17) “The Market and Fulton National Bank, New York City"; (pp. 18) “Salem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, Pa.”; “Roman Catholic Protectory, Flatland, Pa.”; “Administration Building, State Hospital, Harrisburg, Pa.”; “Pennsylvania College Building, Gettysburg, Pa.”; (pp. 19) “High School, Altoona, Pa.”; (pp. 20) “York Collegiate Institute, York, Pa.”; “Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Pa.”; (pp. 21) “City Hall, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.”; “Engine House, Philadelphia, Pa.”; (pp. 22) “Presbyterian Church, Indiana, Pa.”; (pp. 23) “Emory Methodist Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.”; (pp. 24 & 25) “General View of Mill and Shops from north side of No. 3 Quarry”; (pp. 26) “Third United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.”; (pp. 27) “Library, Mount Holly Springs, Pa.” “Residence, Dayton, Ohio”; “United States Post Office, Pottsville, Pa.”; (pp. 28) “Orange County Court-House, Orlando, Florida”; (pp. 29) “Zion Lutheran Church, Hummelstown, Pa.”; “Christ’s Lutheran Church, Lewisburg, Pa.”; (pp. 30) “Home Savings Bank, Washington, D.C.”; “Pottier & Stymus, New York City”; “A. A. Scottish Rite, Williamsport, Pa.”; (pp. 31) “First National Bank, Frackville, Pa.”; “Residence, Washington, D.C.”; (pp. 32) “Harrisburg Academy, Harrisburg, Pa.”; (pp. 33) “Rev. B. F. Stevens Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, Pa.”; (pp. 34) “Denny Hall, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.”; (pp. 35) “The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio”; “Susquehanna Trust Company, Williamsport, Pa.”; (pp. 36) “Union Station, Indianapolis, Indiana”; (pp. 37) “National Exchange Bank, Baltimore, Md.”; “Bank entrance detail”; (pp. 38 & 39) “General View, Rear of Mill”; (pp. 40) “Residence detail, Philadelphia, Pa.”; “Bank entrance detail, Philadelphia, Pa.”; (pp. 41) “Bank entrance detail, New York City”; “College entrance detail, Philadelphia, Pa.”; (pp. 42) “Stevens High School, Lancaster, Pa.”; (pp. 43) “Residence, Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.”; “The Citizens Trust Company, Gettysburg, Pa.”)
“The Lifting Process of Granite Quarrying,” in The Monumental News, Vol. XXL, No. 1, January 1909, pp. 28-29. ( article about a North Carolina Granite Corporation quarry, located in Mount Airy, North Carolina)
(excerpts from the article) “The quarrying problems where the granite deposits lie in mountains of almost solid rock is different from the ordinary quarrying and interesting in many ways. L. B. Ward, in recent number of the Scientific American tells of the lifting practiced in North Carolina, where great rock masses are found in many places.
“The section of the company at an around the vicinity of Mt. Airy is composed almost entirely of these rock masses. The Mt. Airy quarries are situated on a hill many acres in area, very gradual in slope and practically bare of vegetation….”
“The ‘lifting process’ is applicable to quarries of large horizontal areas and in solid masses, and such conditions being almost ideal at the Mt. Airy quarries, this process is altogether used….”
“Ordinary ledges of varying thickness, in Mt. Airy quarries.” |
“View of big ledge showing seam at bottom.” |
The Limestone in the Quarry, Montour County, Pennsylvania |
The Tunnel from Quarry and the Kilns, Montour County, Pennsylvania |
Drawing off the Liime from the Kilns, Montour County, Pennsylvania |
“A Day at the London Marble-Works,” from The Penny Magazine – Supplement, Vol. 10, No. 604, August 1841, pp. 337-344. (This 1841 article begins: “The cutting of a piece of stone, and bringing it to a form and appearance adapted to the purposes of the builder, are operations which, until the last few years, have undergone but a very slight amount of change….”)
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