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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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Stone Cutting Demonstration
55 of 87 		Lifting sandstone using huge derricks
56 of 87 		Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
57 of 87 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
58 of 87 		Wallace Harbour and the Stone Quarry Wharf
59 of 87 		A giant cable drum
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Quarry end of gravity rail road
61 of 87 		Drill holes direct blast
62 of 87 		Sandstone after blast showing drill marks
63 of 87 		Work area of present Wallace village quarry
64 of 87 		Quarry stone picture taken by Allison Brown
65 of 87 		Stan Flynn and son Tom
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Wallace Quarries Limited President Stan Flynn with Museum employee Charlotte Moody.
67 of 87 		Cutting shed in the Wallace quarry
68 of 87 		Palleted stone rubble awaiting shipment
69 of 87 		Wallace from the air. Wharf at the top of the screen is the Stone Quarry Wharf.
70 of 87 		Sandstone column being polished for the Amherst, Nova Scotia Federal Building.
71 of 87 		Diamond tipped blade for sawing sandstone.
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