Schooners TOM BEATTIE and JOHN S. GILMORE loading at Narrows Island Pier
Date1914
MediumPhotography; nitrate negatives
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 × 4 15/16in. (10.2 × 12.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequest from the Estate of Elizabeth Beattie
DescriptionBlack and white photographic negative, view from top of the East Quarry of John Beattie Granite Works. The schooners, the TOM BEATTIE and the JOHN S. GILMORE are being loaded at the pier at Narrows Island with the loading dock in foreground and Connecticut shoreline in background.
Object number2023.17.20
CopyrightPublic Domain
Inscribed(.20-.25) Typed on envelope: QUARRY PICTURES / 1. The Scale Dock, Schr TOM BEATTIE / 2. West Quarry, with derricks looking west / 3. Steam drillers. / 4. Tug ENTERPRISE, Schrs. TOM BEATTIE and AMERICAN EAGLE at East Quarry pier / 5. East Quarry trackwalker & derricks 1916NotesSubject 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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c. 1918
c. 1918
1918
1917
1890-1918
1890-1918