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  - Qualities of Building Stones
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  - Economic Factors in Granite Quarrying
    - Economic Factors in Granite Quarrying in the Eastern United States (1908)
    - Economic Factors in Granite Quarrying (1908)
    - Economic Classification of the Chief Commercial Granites of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island (1908)
    - Commercial Value of the Granites (1908)
    - Economic Classification of New England Granites (1923)
    - The constructional, monumental, sculptural, and rusty-faced granites of New England grouped by dominant colors and shades (1923)
    - Production of Granite by States (1923)
    - Use of Stone in Buildings, Paving, etc.
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- Articles, Booklets, and Quarry Links
  - American Marbles (1888)
  - American Stone Fields (1890)
  - Angers, France " A Visit to the Slate Quarries of Angers" (1894)
  - Bedford Quarries Company (The), Bedford, Indiana Catalog (1895)
  - Brown-Stone (The end of an era) (1869)
  - The Building Stones in the United States (1884)
  - Cape Ann Quarries, Massachusetts (1884)
  - Carrara Marble Quarries, Italy - " A Marble World" (1903)
  - Census
    - Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part 4, Mineral Resources of the U.S. (1894)
    - Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, Vol. XI - Mines and Quarries (1919) (not available yet)
  - Columbia Marble Quarries Visit (199 )
  - The Coming of Age of Marble (1892)
  - Concerning Building Stones (1890)
  - Egyptian Obelisks in Egypt Today - and Obelisks Moved to Istanbul - Rome - Paris - London - New York (link to Nova - A World of Obelisks)
  - Famous Quarries of the World from Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art (1854)
  - Foreign vs. American Marbles (1891)
  - The Great Industries of the United States Being an Historical Summary of the Origin, Growth, and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of This Country - Quarries (1872)
  - A Glimpse of the Celebrated Stone Quarries of Bedford, Indiana (booklet ca late 1880s)
  - Gold Rush Country, California - Building Materials Tour (1998)
  - "In the Marble Hills" (in Vermont) (1890)
  - Isle of Portland, England - Portland Quarry from the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1838)
  - "The Marble Mountains (in Vermont) from Scribener's Magazine (1905)
  - " The Marble-Workers' Manual (1856)"
  - New England Granite Quarry - Channeling a New England Granite Quarry (postcard photograph ca 1908)
  - "The Potsdam Red Sandstone Quarries, Saint Lawrence County, New York", from Scientific American, A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufacturers, (1893)
  - Quarries - Famous Quarries of the World (October 1854)
  - Quarry-Related Articles from The Manufacturer and Builder, 1830s - 1890s (links to digital images in the Library of Congress)
  - Southern Marble (1887)
  - "Stone" (December 1895 magazine)
  - The Story of a Monument
  - Structural Materials in Parts of Oregon and Washingtion - 1909 by N. H. Darton
  - 1992 Census of Mineral Industries - U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of The Census
    [ PDF requires Adobe Acrobat Reader] [ text version]
  - 1992 Census of Mineral Industries - Industry Series - Stone Industries 1411, 1422, 1423, and 1429. U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau Of The Census
    [ PDF] [ text version]
  - 1995 (September) Sector Notebook Project - Non-Fuel, Non-Metal Mining by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [ PDF] [ text version]
  - 1997 Economic Census Data - U. S. Census Bureau
  - Mining (listing by state)
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