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• Maintenance of Interior Marble, by D. W. Kessler, Research Associate, Compliments of Carthage Marble Corporation Carthage, Missouri, Published by National Association of Marble Dealers, (no date of publication in the booklet – possibly early 1900s). Maintenance of Interior Marble is another version of the booklet published circa 1926 (by D. W. Kessler, Research Associate, National Bureau of Standards Compliments of Phenix Marble Company, Kansas City, Missouri, Published by National Association of Marble Dealers, Cleveland, Ohio).

  “Maintenance of Interior Marble” (front cover) by Carthage Marble Corp., Carthage, Missouri	“Maintenance of Interior Marble” (front cover) by Phenix Marble Company, Kansas City, Missouri (2nd link above)	“Maintenance of Interior Marble” (title page) by Phenix Marble Company, Kansas City, Missouri (2nd link above)

• The Manual of Monumental Lettering, published by Monumental News, early 1900s, 174 pp.

Title page of The Manual of Monumental Lettering, Monumental News, early 1900s	Beginning page of “Part Two. Decoration, Carving, and Inscriptions,” The Manual of Monumental Lettering, Monumental News, early 1900s	Diagrams of conventionalized grape design, acanthus leaf, & laurel designs, The Manual of Monumental Lettering, Monumental News, early 1900s

• Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic Catalog, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, no date of publication, probably mid-1900s.

  Title Page of Catalog	Alphabetical List of Color Plates of Marbles

• Marble in India – “Marble in the Land of the Maharajahs:  The Taj Mahal, the Pearl Mosque and the Tomb of Ghiyas Beg contain some of the world’s finest examples of marble openwork, inlay and friezes,” Through the Ages, May 1923.

• “The Marble Mountains” (in Vermont), by Edwin B. Child, Scribener’s Magazine, May, 1905. This article is of the writer's visit to various marble quarries in Vermont and includes many drawings of that time of the quarry and the men working in the quarry.
• “Marble on the Edge,” by Gary McWilliams of Stone Arts of Alaska. This article is an Alaska/boat/stone/art story.  It is about Gary McWilliams’ journey of discovery
• Marble Quarrying Industry in Vermont circa 1904 – “The Carrara of America,” by Day Allen Willey, in Scientific American, Vol. XCI, No. 10, November 5, 1904, pp. 309, 317-318.

• The Marble-Workers’ Manual. Designed for the Use of Marble-Workers, Builders, and Owners of Houses. Containing practical information respecting marbles in general; their cutting, working, and polishing; veneering of marble; painting upon and coloring of marble; mosaics; composition and use of artificial marble, stuccos, cements, receipts, secrets, etc., etc. (1856) Translated from the French, By M. L. Booth, with an Appendix Concerning American Marbles. Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., New-York, 1856. (The entire book is presented including picture of workmen's tools.)
  • A 1857 book review of the above book, is available at: Manual of Marble and Marble Working – Book Review, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, January 1857) is available at the link in the beginning of this sentence.
• Marble and Marble Working: A Handbook for Architects, Sculptors, Marble Quarry Owners and Workers, and All Engaged in the Building and Decorative Industries, by W. G. Renwick, Author of The Marble Industry, The Working of Marble for Decorative Purposes, etc. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company; London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1909. (This book is now available on the Internet Archive and Google Book Search in the Full View Books section. You can view the book as it was originally printed on the web site, and you can download the book in PDF format to your computer.)
• Marble Sample Box by the Vermont Marble Company (The below images of the marble samples, the box (below), and accompanying literature are available for viewing using the link at the beginning of this entry.) The box was produced by the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. The Vermont Marble Company was one of the largest and oldest suppliers of cemetery stones across the United States.
• Massachusetts – Quincy, Massachusetts, Granite Industry – “The Granite Industry of Quincy,” from “Stone,” An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to Stone, Marble, Granite, Slate, Cement, Contracting and Building, Frank W. Hoyt, Publisher, New York, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, December 1903, pp. 128-132.

This article begins: For a number of years Massachusetts held a proud place at the head of the granite producing States.  Until 1899 its nearest competitor, Maine, did not approach within half a million dollars in the value of its granite output.  In the next year Maine had climbed up to within a hundred thousand dollars of Massachusetts, and in 1901 it passed the Bay State, and has since retained the lead.  The largest portion of the Massachusetts output of granite comes from the famous quarries at Quincy.  The quarries at Chelmsford were freely worked from 1810, but the industry at Quincy had its origin in 1825, when the quarries were called upon to furnish stone for Bunker Hill Monument.  A very excellent sketch of the granite industry at Quincy is given by the Boston ‘Sunday Post,’ and this is so pertinent to the subjects to which this magazine is devoted that we venture to quote it….”

• Massachusetts – Massachusetts Granite – “Commemorating Perry in Massachusetts Granite” (located at Put-in-Bay, Ohio), by R. P. Hund, No. 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, & G. H. Richie, 35 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Mine and Quarry, Vol. VIII, No. 2, April 1914, Sullivan Machinery Company, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 816-819.

This article begins: “With the beating of drums, the blare of trumpets, red fire, speech making, friendly competition on land and water, and other accessories which go to make an enthusiastic celebration, the one hundredth anniversary of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie was last summer fittingly observed in the cities and towns along the lake shore.

“While this form of celebration is forgotten almost as soon as finished, the magnificent Perry monument, now being erected at Put-in-Bay, facing the scene where the Battle of Lake Erie was fought, will last for ages as a commemoration of that victory and of the one hundred years of peace between Great Britain and the United States….”

• McGilvray Granite Quarry, Knowles, Madera County, California – Photographic Tour of Quarry September 10, 2010.

• Medium Quincy Granite Monuments Catalog, Gray Rock Granite Company, Successors to Elkhill & Bishop (E&B), 127 Centre Street, Quincy, Massachusetts (no date of publication available – probably early 1900s)

• Memorial Stone, by Oliver Bowles, Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7720, Department of the Interior, June 1955, 6 pp. (The excerpt below is from the “Introduction.”)

  “From the most remote periods of civilization stone has been used to perpetuate the memory of individuals or to immortalize their noble achievements. Ancient memorials ranged from simple piles of stone (cairns), or single markers, to great obelisks and pyramids or magnificent mausoleums. The Taj Mahal at Agra, India, built of white marble by Shah Jehan in memory of the Empress Mumtez Mahal, is one of the most beautiful and costly memorials ever built. It was erected between 1632 and 1650 at an estimated cost of $50,000,000 or more and is today an object of unusual interest for travelers. Other magnificent memorials both ancient and modern are to be found in many lands....”

• “Memorializing the Civil War Dead:  Modernity and Corruption under the Grant Administration,” by Bruce S. Elliott, in Markers XXVI, Association for Gravestone Studies, 2011, pp. 15-55.  (Reprinted with permission of the Association for Gravestone Studies.) 

  This article describes the need to mass produce the Civil War headstones rather than by individual stone carvers. Contracts for the headstones and bases were given out to several different quarries and companies in Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Tennessee. The need for large numbers of markers also increased the use of the sandblasting process to speed up carving the names on the stones. Both mass production the sandblasting process caused great changes in the work of the stone carvers, which led to demands by the stone workers’ unions, such as the eight-hour work day.

• Mexican Onyx/Marble & Arizona Onyx in 1892: “Arizona Onyx,” “The Mexican Onyx Quarries,” & “Mexican Marble,” in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, October 1892.
• Mineral Resources of the Appalachian Region – A compilation of information on the mineral resources, mineral industry, and geology of the Appalachian Region, Geological Survey Professional Paper 580, U. S. Geological Survey and the U. S. Bureau of Mines, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1968.
• Mineral Resources of the United States in the U. S. Geological Survey annual reports and mineral resources books from 1883 through 1931.

  Included for these years are the sections on the “Stone” (including granite, marble, limestone, and slate), “Cement,” and portions of the “Abrasive Materials” of the Mineral Resources sections of the U. S. Geological Survey books from 1883 through 1931.  (For 1932 and later years, see “Mineral Yearbooks of the U. S. Bureau of Mines (1932 through 1993) - Metals, Nonmetals, and Fuels - Domestic & International” below.)

• Mineral Yearbooks of the U. S. Bureau of Mines (1932 through 1993) - Metals, Nonmetals, and Fuels - Domestic & International
• Minnesota – “The Granites of Minnesota,” The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 17, Issue No. 10, October 1885, pp. 226.
  • Minnesota – “The Kasota Quarries” (dolomites and dolomitic stones of southeastern Minnesota), in The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 18, Issue 6, June 1886.

    “Tabular comparison of the qualities of the various stones used in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and other points in the northwest in which Kasota stone figures” (1886)

• Mission San Antonio de Pala, San Diego County, California – the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia – Uses of Local Stone (the mission is known as Mission San Antonio de Pala). The Pala Mission was originally a branch of San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, located east of Oceanside.  See the “San Antonio de Pala Asistencia” photo tour on our web site. (The following photographs taken in May 2012 by Peggy B. Perazzo)

• The Missions of California, by Eugene Leslie Smyth, Chicago: Alexander Belford & Co., 1899.

• Modern Memorial Art Catalog, Some Examples Cut in Stony Creek, Milford Pink and Victoria White Granites, The Dodds Granite Company, Main Office:  Milford, Massachusetts, Quarries & Plants:  Milford, Massachusetts; Stony Creek, Connecticut; Keene, New Hampshire, New York City Office.
• Modern Memorials in Marble,  Illustrating designs for various monumental purposes with numerous examples of the use of marble in both ancient and modern times, Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, designed, engraved, and printed in Bartlett Orr Press, New York, 1922.  (Includes price list for this 1922 monument catalog/book) 

Front cover of Modern Memorials in Marble, Vermont Marble Company, 1922	Campo Santo at Genoa, Italy – one of the largest and finest cemeteries in Italy, pp. 34 in Modern Memorials in Marble, Vermont Marble Co., 1922	The Hote Memorial, pp. 65 of Modern Memorials in Marble, Vermont Marble Co., 1922

• Montgomery Ward & Co. Monuments, Tombstones and Markers Catalog, 1929 (pp. 4-21 presents available monuments, choices of stone available, and prices; pp. 22 “Fraternal or Military Emblems”; pp. 23 “Information About Lettering”; pp. 24 “Verses Suitable for Inscriptions”; pp. 25 “Sturdy Iron Furniture and Fencing”; pp. 26 “Suggestions for Setting Monuments” (with diagrams); inside back cover: ordering information including freight charges shipped from Rutland, Vermont; Elmwood, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon.)

  Montgomery Ward & Co. Monuments, Tombstones and Markers Catalog, 1929

• The Monument and Cemetery Review: The Exponent of Art in the Monument Field, October, 1926. (The image below contains the “Contents” section of the October 1926 issue. Click on the link in magazine title in the preceding sentence to view the entire issue in PDF. Peggy B. Perazzo.)

  The Monument and Cemetery Review, October 1926

• Monument Trade Builder, March-April, 1918, published by Barclay Brothers, Barre, Vermont  (monument construction and production)

• “The Monumental Cemetery of Milan” Italy, in The Monumental News, November 1895, pp. 680-682.

“Entrance to Monumental Cemetery, Milan, Italy,” in "The Monumental News," Nov. 1895	“View in Monumental Cemetery, Milan” Italy, in "The Monumental News," Nov. 1895

“From a monument in Monumental Cemetery, Milan” Italy, in "The Monumental News," Nov. 1895	“Monument in the Monumental Cemetery, Milan” Italy, in "The Monumental News," Nov. 1895

• Monumental Estimates in Granite, compiled by the Victory Granite Co., Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, 1946.

Front & back covers of the booklet, Monumental Estimates in Granite, by the Victory Granite Co. of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota	pp. 78 in the booklet, Monumental Estimates in Granite, showing concave-, convex-, serpentine-style monument size and prices	pp. 80 & 81 in the booklet, Monumental Estimates in Granite, showing crosses, and sandblast letters, raised letters, carving dies, & Carving Wedge and Hickey Marker sizes and prices

• The Monumental New Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1892 – The Monumental News Magazine – An index of the 1892 issues of The Monumental News is available. The following issues of The Monumental News magazines are available at the links below:

    January 1892, Vol. 4, No. 1	(January Index)	Contents
    February 1892, Vol. 4, No. 2	(February Index)	Contents
    March 1892, Vol. 4, No. 3	(March Index)	Contents
    April 1892, Vol. 4, No. 4	(April Index)	Contents
    May 1892, Vol. 4, No. 5	(May Index)	Contents
    June 1892, Vol. 4, No. 6	(June Index)	Contents
    July 1892, Vol. 4, No. 7	(July Index)	Contents
    August 1892, Vol. 4, No. 8	(August Index)	Contents
    September 1892, Vol. 4, No. 9	(September Index)	Contents
    October 1892, Vol. 4, No. 10	(October Index)	Contents
    November 1892, Vol. 4, No. 11	(November Index)	Contents
    December 1892, Vol. 4, No. 12	(December Index)	Contents

  • 1893 – The Monumental News Magazine – The following 1893 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format:

    January 1893, Vol. 5, No. 1	Contents
    February 1893, Vol. 5, No. 2	Contents
    March 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 3	Contents
    April 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 4	Contents
    May 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 5	Contents
    June 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 6	Contents
    July 1893, Vol. 5, No. 7	Contents
    August 1893, Vol. 5, No. 8	Contents
    September 1893, Vol. 5, No. 9	Contents
    October 1893, Vol. 5, No. 10	Contents
    November 1893, Vol. 5, No. 11	Contents
    December 1893, Vol. 5, No. 12	Contents

  • 1894 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1894 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format:

    January 1894, Vol. 6, No. 1

    February 1894, Vol. 6, No. 2

    March 1894, Vol. 6, No. 3

    April 1894, Vol. 6, No. 4

    May 1894, Vol. 6, No. 5

    June 1894, Vol. 6, No. 6

    July 1894, Vol. 6, No. 7

    August 1894, Vol. 6, No. 8

    September 1894, Vol. 6, No. 9

    October 1894, Vol. 6, No. 10

    November 1894, Vol. 6, No. 11

    December 1894, Vol. 6, No. 12

    (The preceding files are about 11 MB or less. Only the January issue contains a “Contents” section.)

  • 1895 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1895 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available at the links below:

    January 1895, Vol. 7, No. 1	Contents
    February 1895, Vol. 7, No. 2
    March 1895, Vol. 7, No. 3
    April 1895, Vol. 7, No. 4	Contents
    May 1895, Vol. 7, No. 5	Contents
    June 1895, Vol. 7, No. 6	Contents
    July 1895, Vol. 7, No. 7	Contents
    August 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8	Contents
    September 1895, Vol. 7, No. 9	Contents
    October 1895, Vol. 7, No. 10	Contents
    November 1895, Vol. 7, No. 11	Contents
    December 1895, Vol. 7, No. 12	Contents

  • 1896 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1896 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available at the links below:

    January 1896, Vol. 8, No. 1	Contents
    February 1896, Vol. 8, No. 2	Contents
    March 1896, Vol. 8, No. 3	Contents
    April 1896, Vol. 8, No. 4	Contents
    May 1896, Vol. 8, No. 5	Contents
    June 1896, Vol. 8, No. 6	Contents
    July 1896, Vol. 8, No. 7	Contents
    August 1896, Vol. 8, No. 8	Contents
    September 1896, Vol. 8, No. 9	Contents
    October 1896, Vol. 8, No. 10	Contents
    November 1896, Vol. 8, No. 11	Contents
    December 1896, Vol. 8, No. 12	Contents

• Monuments ... For The Ages, Miller Monuments, Inc., Plymouth & Elkhart, Indiana, No date of publication.

• Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City buildings in Utah in 1892 – “The ‘Temple Block,’ Salt Lake City,” in Scientific American, Vol. LXVI, No. 6, pp. 83, New York, February 6, 1892.

  Banner from the February 6, 1892, issue of Scientific American	The Five Million Dollar Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City (ca. 1892)

• “Motor Truck in the Monument Business: What Retail Monument Dealers Think of the Efficiency of Motor Transportation for Memorial Work,” article in Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, January 1921, pp32-33d.
• Napa Junction / American Canyon, Napa County, California - Standard Portland Cement Co. / Basalt Rock Co. Ruins Photographic Tour. We visited these ruins and photographed them with permission in late May 2011. This property is slated to become the new American Canyon Town Center. (These ruins are located on private property so you should obtain permission before entering the property.)

• New England Granite Quarry Channeling a New England Granite Quarry (postcard photograph 11719; “Phostint” Card; made only by Detroit Publishing Co.; unmailed, ca 1908)
• The New England Granite Works Catalog – Established in 1845, Chartered 1877  (no date of publication shown)  489 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York; General Office, Westerly, Rhode Island; Quarries and Works:  Westerly, Rhode Island, and Concord, New Hampshire.

• New York – “A Large Paving Stone” (Quarried in at Barreville, New York, for the residence of, Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt on Fifth Avenue, New York), in Scientific American, Vol. XLV, No. 10, New York, September 3, 1881.

• New York – “Bluestone Sidewalks” (Bluestone quarried in the state of New York), Scientific American, Vol. LXIII, No. 21, New York, November 22, 1890.
• “Norwegian Granite Industry,” in Stone, An Illustrated Magazine, July 1917.
• “The Ohio Freestone District,” in Stone, An Illustrated Magazine, July 1892.
• “Ohio Industries: The Stone Industry,” by George H. Worthington, President of the Cleveland Stone Company, Harper’s Weekly, April 23, 1904.

“View of the ‘Canyon’ Quarry, Amherst, Ohio (Harper’s Weekly, April 23, 1904, pp. 633)

• Ohio – “The Sandstone Quarries of Ohio,” by W. Frank M’Clure, Scientific American, New York, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 7, February 14, 1903, pp. 113-114.
  

  The article begins: “The order of the three sandstone-producing States whose annual production exceeds in value $1,000,000 has changed within the past year (1902), according to figures recently compiled by the United States Geological Survey.  Prior to this time New York held second place, with Pennsylvania third, but now Pennsylvania and New York have changed places.  Ohio, the other of the three great sandstone States, is not only still in the lead, but the value of her product has shown a noticeable increase….”

  “Ohio also holds an interesting place among the stone-producing territories of the world in that here are said to be located the largest sandstone quarries extant and from these quarries comes the bulk of all the whetstones and grindstones of the country….”

“Sandstone Layers in an Ohio Quarry.”	“Drilling the Sandstone.”

“Sawing Sandstone by Machinery.”	“Lifting a Sandstone Block.”

• “Our Building Stone Supply” circa 1887, (Quarrying in the United States circa 1887), by George P. Merrill, Scientific American Supplement, No. 577, January 22, 1887, & “Our Building Stone Supply” Conclusion, Scientific American Supplement, No. 578, January 29, 1887. Also available is the similar, but earlier and shorter version of this article:  “Our Building Stone Supply,” Scientific American,  January 8, 1887.

  Interior view of marble quarry, West Rutland, Vermont	Portland Sandstone Quarries – Splitting out the stone with wedges (Connecticut)
  Quarries of Flynt Granite Co., Monson, Massachusetts	Granite Quarries, Hallowell, Maine

• Pakistan - the Ziarat Marble Quarry, Pakistan - “Pakistan Marble Helps Taliban Stay in Business,” by Pir Zubair Shah and Jane Perlez, New York Times online edition, International/Asia Pacific, July 14, 2008.

  “The takeover of the Ziarat quarry has enabled the Taliban to turn themselves into a self-sustaining fighting force.”

  According to this article, in April of 2008 the Taliban settled a feud between two local tribes and took over control of the Ziarat marble quarry located on a “mountain of white marble” between the city of Peshawar and the Afghan border. The marble, considered a national asset, is used mainly for “expensive floors and Walls in Pakistan, and in limited quantities abroad” and is considered comparable to the Italian Carrara marble. Prior to the Taliban takeover, the quarry had been inactive for about four years. The marble is quarried using dynamite, which shatters much of the stone; and old trucks are used to transport the marble to nearby towns for manufacturing. The Taliban charges a fee and a tax upon each truck of marble.

  Photo caption: “Each truck of marble that rolls out of the Ziarat quarry in Pakistan means a payment to the Taliban, which holds power in the area.” (A map of the area is also included.)

• Pennsylvania
  • Bangor Excelsior Slate Company Descriptive Catalogue: Genuine Bangor Roofing Slate, Bangor Excelsior Slate Company, 1890s. (Offices: Easton, Pennsylvania; Quarries: Bangor, Pennsylvania)

  Front cover of the booklet, Bangor Excelsior Slate Company Descriptive Catalogue, 1890s.	First pg. of the “Introduction” of the booklet, Bangor Excelsior Slate Company Descriptive Catalogue, 1890s.	One of the photographs from the booklet, Bangor Excelsior Slate Company Descriptive Catalogue, 1890s.

  • “Pennsylvania Building Stones,” Parts 1 and 5, by R. W. Stone, in Stone, Vol. XLIX, No. 1, January 1928, pp. 34-35, and Vol. XLIX, February, 1928, No. 2, pp. 109-110.

  “Bridge erected in 1799 and spanning Periomen Creek, near Collegeville, Pennsylvania.  The stone is Pennsylvania sandstone.  The upper portions have been rebuilt of the same stone.”	“Sandstone quarry near Waynesburg, Green County, Pennsylvania, showing brick shale in upper strata being worked in advance of dimension stone operation below.”	“Dia base quarry, French Lick Granite Company, St. Peters, Chester County, Pa.”

  “Seishaltzville Granite in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Emaus, Lehigh County, Pa., erected in 1923.  This detail shows a masonry wall of unusual rustic beauty.”	“Pennsylvania flagstone yard at Meshoppen, Wyoming County, showing storage and large flag on crane.”

  • “Peach-Bottom Slate,” (York County, Pennsylvania), The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 22, Issue 10, October 1890.
  • “Slate-Making in Pennsylvania,” in The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 16, Issue 11, November 1884.
• Penryn, Placer County, California, Granite Quarry Trip - The Griffith Quarry in Penryn (1997 & 2000)
• Penryn, Placer County, Griffth Penryn Quarry Photographic Tour (October 2010)
• “The Penrhyn Slate Quarry,” (at Dolawen in Caernarvonshire, Wales, England), in Saturday Magazine, No. 12, September 8th, 1832, pp. 93. 

  Other articles included in this magazine are:  * “Crosby Hall,”  * “Memoir of Doctor Samuel Johnson,”  * “Who Is Alone?” (a poem),  * “Vegetable Titan (Rafflesia Arnoldi, or Krûbul),”  * “The Puma (Felis Concolar),”  * “A Visit To A Salt Mine” (at Ischl), * “All For The Best,”  * “Abbreviations and Signs,”  * “Boscobel Cottage” (“near the town of Madeley, on the confines of Worcestershire and Shropshire.”)

  “Penrhyn Slate Quarry” at Dolawen, in Caernarvonshire, England, 1832	Penrhyn Slate Quarry

• The Penrhyn Slate Quarries in North Wales circa 1858, in The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913, Saturday, April 17, 1858, pp. 392-393.

  In the Penrhyn Quarry circa 1858	The Penrhyn Slate Quarry in North Wales circa 1958

  Quarryman at work in one of the Penrhyn slate quarries circa 1858	The Fitzroy Slate Quarry in North Wales circa 1858

• “Portland Cement:  Its Constitution, Properties, and Manufacture – Regions Where the Different Materials Are Found,” by Richard K. Meade, Mines and Minerals, June 1902.

• “The Potsdam Red Sandstone Quarries,” Scientific American, Vol. LXVIII, No. 1, January 7, 1893, pp. 1, 8-10. (The second part of this article on the Potsdam Red Sandstone quarries follows this article.)

• “The Potsdam Red Sandstone Company’s Water Wheel,” in Scientific American, Vol. LXVIII, No. 3, January 21, 1893, pp. 37-38. (You will find the first part of this article in the entry above.)

  Adjustable undershot water wheel for varying level, of the Potsdam Red Sandstone Co. (1893)	Diagram of the Potsdam Red Sandstone Company's adjustable undershot water wheel for varying water level (1893)

• “A Practical Quarrywoman,” (Cora L. Hess Faulkner of Oneida, New York) from Stone, an Illustrated Magazine, February 1898, Vol. XVI, No. 3, pp. 249-250.
• Producers’ Marble Company’s Illustrated Catalogs of 1886, ’87 and ’89 – This Book Contains Eighty-four Choice Designs Selected from the Late Producers’ Marble Company’s Illustrated Catalogs of 1886, ’87 and ’89, D. H. Dickinag (?), Water Street, Chicago, Illinois, June, 1889.

• Products of Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Stone Catalog, Distributors of Marble – Stone, New York, circa 1890’s through 1915, 90 pp.

  Front cover of the Products of Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Stone Catalog, circa 1915

• “The Rockport Granite Quarries” (Massachusetts), in Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX, No. 20, November 16, 1878, pp. 314.
• Quarries & Mines in the United States – Compare Mines (& quarries) in the United States on the Find the Data web site. (Source: U.S. Department of Labor)
• Quarries - “Famous Quarries of the World” (October 1854) Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, Vol. 4, Issue 22, October 1854, pgs. 404-408. (Article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress.)
• Quarryhill Botanical Garden Photo Tour, Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California.  The Quarryhill Botanical Garden was constructed on steep hillsides amongst several abandoned quarries, and it is open to the public.
• “Quarrying Methods in Ancient Greece,” in Through the Ages, Vol. I, No. I,May 1923.
• Quarry-Related Articles from the Manufacturer and Builder and others. Articles range date from the 1830s through the 1890s.
• Raymond Granite Quarry in Raymond, Madera County, California - Photographic Tour of Quarry.

• Roberts Marble Company Monuments of Georgia – Marble & Granite Monument Catalog (PDF), Roberts Marble Co. Monument Catalog, Ball Ground, Georgia, Since 1898

  Roberts Marble Co. Monuments of Georgia Monument Catalog

• Rocklin Granite Quarry in Rocklin, Placer County, California - Photographic Tour of Quarry.
• Rocks of Famous Monuments, presented by Guillermo Rocha, P.G. / Brooklyn College Geology Department.
• San Diego Mission, San Diego County, California

• Santa Cruz Portland Cement Plant & Quarry Photographic Tour, Davenport, Santa Cruz County, California (operated by Cemex until early 2010). The photographs below and included in the photographic tour of the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Plant were taken and contributed by Anthony Meadow, who is a member of the Samuel Knight Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology.

• Scotland – “The Disaster at The Crarae Quarries,” in Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXII, No. 569, November 27, 1886, pp. 9079.

  1.  The quarry, looking from the lake.  2.  Interior of the quarry.  (originally published in the London Graphic)	1.  Crarae Quarry from the Loch.  2.  Passengers watching the blast from the Lord of Isles.  3.  Quarrymen bringing out the bodies.  4.  The rush from the quarry.  (originally published in The Illustrated London News)

• Scotland – “The Rubislaw Granite Quarry, Aberdeenshire, from a sketch by S. Read,” in The Illustrated London News, April 20, 1862, pp. 410.
• “Secrets of the Dark Ages of Prehistoric Man Revealed in Stone Tables of Malta,” “Stone” Magazine, Vol. XLVII, No. 9, September, 1926. pp. 545-547.

The Tad-Daul Limestone quarry on the Island of Malta ("Stone," magazine, Sept. 1926, pp. 454)	Opening a new Quarry of Malta Limestone, Island of Malta ("Stone," magazine, Sept. 1926, pp. 456)	Erecting a small house on Island of Malta. ("Stone," magazine, Sept. 1926, pp. 456)

• Secrets of the Parthenon, presented by NOVA and available on DVD. Sections on “Links & Books” and a “Teacher’s Guide” are included in addition to the following subjects:
  • A Glorious Temple: Take a trip back to the fifth century B.C. with art historian Jeffrey Hurwit.
  • Restoring the Ruin
  • Scenes From a Quarry: Detailed line drawings reveal the tools and techniques of ancient Greek craftsmen.
  • The Parthenon’s Many Lives: Trace the building’s various incarnations as a temple, church, mosque, and even an army barracks.
• Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. Part IV. - Mineral Resources of the United States, 1894, Nonmetallic Products - “Stone” by William C. Day. (The report on stone for 1894 treated in some detail of the nature, composition, and properties of the different kinds of commercially important stone; also of uses to which they are put, the modes of occurrence in nature, methods of quarrying, dressing, and finishing for their various uses, etc.)
• “Slate Quarrying and Manufacture in America” (and Vermont) circa 1872, in Scientific American, Vol. XXVII, No. 11, New York, September 14, 1872, pp. 160-161.

  Banner for Sept. 14, 1872, edition of Scientific American in which the above article appeared

• Soledad Mission, Monterey County, California – Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad – Uses of Local Stone (the mission, cemetery, and deteriorating adobe walls and stone foundations) (The following photographs taken in June 2012 by Peggy B. Perazzo)

• “Some Women Marble Cutters” (circa 1901) The article in the image is from The Monumental News Magazine, the date of the original publication is unknown, although it was published circa 1901, pp. 120 (?). This article was included as one of the past articles of the magazine in the December, 1939 issue of The Monumental News Magazine. (Photo captions: Lucy J. Daniel, of Executor, Mo.; Alice E. Rigg, of Canada; & Pearl Sams, of Great Bend, Kansas.)

  

• Sources of Memorial Ornamentation (PDF), by Henry Powell Hopkins, A.M., B.Arch., A.I.A., Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, printed by the Barta Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1924, 44 pp. (From the Forward: “This brief outline of ornamentation as related to memorial design has been written under the encouragement of Capt. E.R. Morse of the Vermont Marble Company and in the belief that there is need for a simple and practical presentation on the subject. It is mainly for the memorial craftsman and his salesmen that this work is produced and it is the writer’s desire to make some contribution…to a better knowledge of memorial ornamentation in the retail selling field. Correct ornament invariably has an historic derivation which can be traced and which gains meaning if its origin and the structural or artistic reasons for its use are understood.”)

• “Southern Marble” (June 1887 The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 19, Issue 6, June 1887, pgs. 130-131. (Article in digital images viewed at American Memory, Library of Congress.)
• “St. Sophia at Constantinople:  The Interior an Epoch in Domed Surfaces and Lighting,” in Through the Ages, May 1923.

Interior of St. Sophia at Constantinople (1923)

• “Standing the Test of the Centuries” (Marble), in Through the Ages, May 1923.

Ancient Roman temple at Baalbeck Syria (1923)	The Parthenon at Athens (1923)

• “Steam Stone Works,” in Scientific American, New York, Vol. LXVI, No. 6, February 6, 1892, pp. 87.  The article begins:  “The illustrations of this subject are taken from the plant of Barr, Thaw & Fraser, Hoboken, New Jersey….”  (engraving captions)  (top) “Stone yard with traveling crane.”  (left) “Rubbing bed.”  (middle) “Moulding machine.”  (right)  “Sawing.”

“Steam Stone Works,” in Scientific American, February 6, 1892, pp. 87. (engraving captions) “Stone yard with traveling crane.” “Rubbing bed.” “Moulding machine.” “Sawing.”

• Stone (December 1895 magazine) This magazine includes many articles, advertisements, equipment, instruction, and many photographs and sketches of quarries, men working, etc.
• Stone Magazine - List of Articles Beginning with the 1895 issue. (Stone - An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to Stone, Marble, Granite, Slate, Cement, Contracting and Building)
• “Stone in Egypt, Greece, and Italy,” in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, October 1892
• The Stone Industries in the United States & Foreign Countries up through 1939 (overview) in The Stone Industries: Dimension Stone, Crushed Stone, Geology, Technology, Distribution, Utilization, by Oliver Bowles (Supervising Engineer, Building Materials Section, United States Bureau of Mines), New York: 2nd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939.  (You can view a copy of this book on Internet Archive web site, and you can download a copy of the book to your computer at the link above.)
• Stone Mountain, Georgia – Southeast Granite Company – Stone Mountain Granite Memorial/Monumental Stones Catalog (pdf) (1920s)

• Stone Quarry Industry French & Italian Trade Cards (circa 1903) Below are four of the trade cards included in a group of cards that I recently acquired. Peggy B. Perazzo

  Italian Trade Card Transporting Marble in Italy	French Trade Card – Basque Stone Quarry Workers

  French Trade Card – Early Marble Sculptures in Italy	French Sandstone Quarry Trade Card

• Stories in Stone, by David B. Williams, in PDF format. You can learn more about David B. Williams’ interest in stone on his web site: David B. Williams: GeologyWriter. (His new book is now available: Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology. He also has a blog relating to geology that you might want to visit: Stories in Stone: The interfingering between people and rock.)
• The Story of a Monument, presented by Dakota Granite, South Dakota. The story of a monument begins with the story of Dakota Mahogany granite.
• Structural Materials in Parts of Oregon and Washingtion, 1909 by N. H. Darton.
• Studies in Granite: The Noblest of Building Stone, No. 2 of the Granite Series, 1923-1924-1925, National Building Granite Quarris Assn., Inc., Boston, Mass.
• Sullivan Machinery Company - “The Great Beginnings of a Great New Hampshire Industry,” by George B. Upham in The Granite Monthly magazine, Vol. 53, No. 4, April 1921. [PDF]

  “The Sullivan Machinery Company now has offices in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Knoxville, St. Louis, Cleveland, Duluth, Dallas, Joplin, Denver, Spokane, El Paso, Salt Lake, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Santiago in Chile, and Lima in Peru. In the old world it maintains headquarters at London and Paris and before the war had a flourishing branch in Petrograd. A branch has been maintained for many years in Sydney, Australia, and the company’s representatives are selling Sullivan mining machinery in Japan, India, the Federated Malay States, and South Africa.

  “Sullivan machinery for excavating rock in mines, tunnels and quarries, for compressing air, for prospecting for minerals, and for mining coal is found in every part of the world where these industries are carried on. This article tells of the small, yet interesting beginnings of this New Hampshire Industry.”

  (The names used for this company include: “D. A. Clay & Co.,” “Claremont Machine Works,” “J. P. Upham & Co.,” and lastly, the “Sullivan Machinery Company.”)

• Sullivan Machinery Company (undated booklet) From the booklet: “Sullivan Machinery company links with the past through a merger in 1946 when Sullivan was acquired by Joy Manufacturing Company…The mutually beneficial merger remained in force until early in 1984 when Joy Manufacturing Company chose to relinquish its markets and products for heavy construction and metallic mining in favor of concentrating the company’s efforts in the prime markets of non-metallic mining and other energy related industries….”

  Sullivan Machinery Company: The First 95 Years & Sullivan Machinery Company: The Second Century, by the Sullivan Machinery Company (published after 1984)

• Sweetwater Dam, San Diego County – the Sweetwater Dam & Quarry  (The following photographs and the photographs in the “Sweetwater Dam & Quarry Photographic Tour” section of our web site were taken in late May 2012.  This is one of the stops on the San Diego County granite quarry tour that Jeff McGreevy took my husband Pat and me on that covered the Santee/Lakeside/Grossmont, et al. areas. Peggy B. Perazzo)

• Switzerland – “Quarry Methods in Switzerland,” by George E. Walsh, The Monumental News, June 1905, p. 419-420.
• Symbols of Service Monumental Catalog & Price List, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vermont, 1919. (A few of the images in this book are shown below.)

• Tennessee Marbles
  • “The Industrial Progress of The South” (circa 1880), by J. B. Killebrew, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, December 1880
  • “Tennessee Marble,” The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 18, Issue 6, June 1886
  • “A Preliminary Report on the Marble Industry of Tennessee,” The Resources of Tennessee, Vol. 1, Tennessee Geological Survey, 1911
• Through the Ages Magazine – List of Articles Beginning with the 1923 issue. “A Monthly Magazine devoted to the uses of Marble – its universal adaptability, beauty, permanency and economy”
• Tolenas Springs Onyx/“Marble”/Travertine Quarry & Mineral Springs (The photographs below and in the “Tolenas Springs Quarry and Mineral Springs” photographic tour section of our web site were taken and contributed by Richard Degraffenreid.)

• Tombstones and Monuments:  Catalog of Memorial Art in Granite and Marble, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Illinois, First Edition, circa 1906 (large file)

• “Tombstones, and the Men who created them,” by Mary-ellen Jones, article from Diablo Descendants Newsletter, Contra Costa County Genealogical Society, Vol. 11, No. 11, November 1996, pp. 89, 91. (Use browser back button to return to this document.)
• “A Tour Through The Western Marble Regions, Part III” (in Nevada & California), by George C. Underhill, in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, December 1895
• Universal Monument Company Monumental Catalogs & Price list, Atlanta Georgia (1920s) (For stone samples, business correspondence form, et al. on this company, go to the “Universal Monument Company – Manufacturers of High Grade Monuments” section of our web site.)
  • Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920’s.  (Note, this is a very large document.)
  • Monuments of Enduring Beauty (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta Georgia, 1920s.
  • Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s. (Price list for Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108, above.)
• Vermont – over 100 photographs of the J. K. Pirie Granite Quarry from the early- to mid-1950s. The photographs in this series were taken by Fred F. Pirie, owner of the Pirie granite quarry, during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. (The quarry was located in Williamstown, Vermont; and the business office was located in Barre, Vermont.)  These photographs were contributed by and are used with the permission of Paul Wood of the Vermont Granite Museum and Andreas Kuehnpast.

• Vermont Marble Company Dealer’s Sales Portfolio:  Information on Designs and Other Illustrations, Proctor, Vermont, October 1940.

• Virginia – “Soapstone Quarries of Virginia,” Scientific American, New York, June 6, 1896.
• W. A. Hambleton Granite Monuments & Statuary Catalog – At Wholesale, Book No. 10, American & Foreign, Mansfield, Ohio; Barre, Vermont; Aberdeen, Scotland
• Washington Monument Memorial Stones (Album/Slide Show), presented on the Washington Monument web site by National Park Service.
  • Washington Monument - Experience the Monument - the Memorial Stones

    The Washington Monument web site has been redesigned. Below is an description that was available on the National Park Service web site in January 2008 that describes the Memorial Stones in the Washington Monument at the following web address. This web address is no longer available.
    <http://www.nps.gov/wamo/experience/memstones/State%20Stones/memstone.htm>

    “A unique feature of the Washington Monument is the 193 memorial stones that adorn the interior of the monument. Starting in July 1848 the Washington National Monument Society invited states, cities and patriotic societies to contribute Memorial Stones. The Society listed some requirements to be followed. They asked that the stone be durable, a product of the state’s soil, and meet the following dimensions; four feet long, two feet high and 18 inches thick. These stones pay tribute to the character and achievements of George Washington. These traits are not only admired by Americans but by people the world over as seen by the number of stones donated by foreign countries. Below is a list of stones donated by state. In the near future all the stones will be online.

    “While viewing the stones please keep in mind that the Washington Monument has undergone extensive renovation over the last three years. A key component of the project has been the restoration of the memorial stones. Over the years the stones have been damaged by moisture and vandalism. The pictures that follow show the condition of the stones before their restoration. In the upcoming months new images will be added highlighting the restored stones.”

• “Whetstones in the United States,” Stone, An Illustrated Magazine, November 1892.
• “The Wisconsin Sandstones,” The Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. 17, Issue 12, December 1885.

• “The World’s Largest Derrick” (located at the C.E. Tayntor quarry in Graniteville, Vermont), by Andreas Kuehnpast.  This article was originally published in The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus on August 4, 2014.  It is used here with permission.  (Andreas Kuehnpast is an industrial engineer from Germany.  In his spare time he researches the Barre granite industry and the railroad that served it, the Barre & Chelsea Railroad.)
  

  This circa 1895 photo of the C.E. Tayntor quarry shows the largest derrick in the world in the center.  (Photo from the collection of Todd Paton. Used with permission.)

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