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Description
Running east along Blue Hill Harbor, glaciers left exposed a rich vein of blue-gray granite. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the stone was prized for the construction of bridges and large buildings in fast-growing American cities.
By the mid-point of the nineteenth century, several quarries were active along East Blue Hill Road. This image shows approximately 50 men and one boy posed in a group shot, some of them with aprons. Handwritten notes on the margin name seven of the men without specifying their location in the photograph: Elmer Coomer, Emory Howard, Walter Stover, Nelson Candage, Fred Johnson, Henry Clay, and Purl Cooper.
About This Item
- Title: Blue Hill Granite Quarry workers, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Blue Hill, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photograph on paper
- Dimensions: 15.2 cm x 20.6 cm
- Local Code: HHPH 0517
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Granite quarrying--Maine--Blue Hill
- Quarrying--Maine--Blue Hill
- Industry--Maine--Blue Hill
- Laborers--Maine--Blue Hill
- Stone quarrying--Maine
- Child labor--Maine--Blue Hill
- Granite industry and trade--Maine--Blue Hill
- Group portraits
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Blue Hill Historical SocietyPO Box 710, 3 Water Street, Blue Hill, ME 04614
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