East Quarry
Date1910
MediumPhotography
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 3 15/16 × 4 15/16in. (10 × 12.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequest from the Estate of Elizabeth Beattie
DescriptionBlack and white photograph, view of the John Beattie Granite Works East Quarry in 1910 just before the reactivation to get stone for the Kelsey Point Breakwater. It had been unworked since the early 1890s.
Object number2023.17.98
CopyrightPublic Domain
InscribedHandwritten on reverse of photograph in black ink: “East Quarry 1910”Typed on envelope: “QUARRY PICTURES / 1, East Quarry 1910, just before the / reactivation to get stone for the / Kelsey Point Breakwater. It had been / unworked since the early 1890’s.”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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