From Quarry to Cemetery Monuments
Quarry Tools & Equipment (Continued)
Drills
 Splitting granite at Milford with Sullivan plug drills, for the Perry Monument |
Workers in Cave di Carrara Suila Tecchia in Carrara, Italy (post card photo) |
Using hammer & chisel in a slate quarry in the UK (1858 engraving) |
Drilling red granite in a Coles Bay, Tasmania, quarry (postcard photo) |
Drilling in the Wetmore and Morse Quarry, Barre, Vermont (postcard photo) |
 A sliding drill employed for making horizontal drill holes at quarry floor (U.S. Bur. Mines Bul. 124, 1917) |
Drilling by compressed air in lime quarry, Rockland, Maine (Keystone View Co. stereoview card) |
(back of stereoview card shown at left) |
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