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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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Wooden Mallets
19 of 87 		Stone Hammers
20 of 87 		Using Point Chisel
21 of 87 		Sandstone polishing demonstration
22 of 87 		Scabbling pick
23 of 87 		Polishing Rubber
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Tooth Chisel Demonstration
25 of 87 		Quarry workers posing in front of Quarry office. Names around picture border.
26 of 87 		Derrick
27 of 87 		Sandstone entrance facade of the Nova Scotia Legislature
28 of 87 		Brunton and Adams Quarry invoice
29 of 87 		Boot scraper made at the Battye Quarry
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Stone starting to split as wedges are forced into the holes.
31 of 87 		Drilling holes for explosives
32 of 87 		Hand carved name (Battye) on old boot scraper.
33 of 87 		Gordon Dewar, Stone Cutter
34 of 87 		Quarry derricks
35 of 87 		Scabble rock boat. Used to haul ''rip rap'' and waste from the quarry.
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