From Quarry to Cemetery Stone

On the way to the quarries with wagon and oxen (from the Cape Ann Quarries, Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 1884)

Preparing to Load Stone (from the Cape Ann Quarries, Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 1884)

Lowering a block of marble in a Carrara marble quarry in Italy (from “A Marble World,” Pearson’s Magazine, 1903)

Transferring a block of marble weighing 40 tons, from the foot of the quarry to Carrara with a team of 40 oxen (from “A Marble World,” Pearson’s Magazine, 1903)

Transporting blocks of marble by wagon in Carrara, Italy, quarry

Transporting marble at one f the Carrara, Italy, marble quarries (postcard photo)

Transporting block of stone (13,280 pounds) by horse and wagon from Academy Granite Company, Fresno County (from Report XIV of the State Mineralogist - Mines and Mineral Resources of Portions of California, Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report - Biennial Period 1913-1914)

Transporting blocks of stone by horse in the Arabia Granite Co. quarry in the Lithonia Dist. of Georgia

Loading granite onto a horse-drawn wagon at the quarry, Concord, New Hampshire (postcard photo)

Loading stone onto wagon. Quarry at Les Carrieres, Euville, France (postcard photo)

Transporting block of granite by wagon in Llano, Texas (postcard photo)

Horse-drawn wagon carrying block of stone in Iowa (postcard photo)