Scow SHAMROCK hoisting stone
Date1890-1918
MediumPhotography; nitrate negatives
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 7/8 × 3 3/4in. (12.4 × 9.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequest from the Estate of Elizabeth Beattie
DescriptionBlack and white photographic negative, view of the John Beattie Granite Works' scow, SHAMROCK, hoisting stone dredged from the foundation site for West Wharf, Madison, Connecticut. At center a worker holds a rope connected to a large hoist or derrick which is lifting a block of granite, the second worker stands to the left. A second hoist hangs over the wharf in the foreground on the right with houses in the background.
Object number2023.17.7
CopyrightPublic Domain
Inscribed(.6-.7) Handwritten on envelope in black pen: “Madison / West Wharf / Schr TOM BEATTIE / Setting granite / Scow SHAMROCK / hoisting stone dredged / from excavation where / foundation was to go in.”NotesSubject Note: John Beattie's granite quarry, situated in Guilford on the Long Island Sound, was well-positioned to distribute granite via a fleet of schooners to locations in Connecticut and New York. Notably, granite from Beattie's quarry was used in the pedestal at the base of the Statue of Liberty.The quarry operated from 1869, when Scottish immigrant Beattie purchased 400 acres of land on Leetes Island, until about 1918, when Beattie's sons closed up shop 20 years after his death. At its height, the quarry employed 700 people, many of them immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, England, Finland, Sweden, and Italy.
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