Steam Drillers
Date1890-1918
MediumPhotography; nitrate negatives
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 7/8 × 4in. (12.4 × 10.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequest from the Estate of Elizabeth Beattie
DescriptionBlack and white photographic negative, two unidentified men laborers working as steam drillers at John Beattie Granite Works. Both men are dressed in heavy working clothes and hats, the man on the left has a tobacco pipe in his mouth and looks towards camera while the second man looks towards the ground.
Object number2023.17.23
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. 1912-1913
1890-1918
1904-1905
1890-1918
