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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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Curator, David Dewar, demonstrating stone cutting for a Tatamagouche Elementary School Class.
1 of 33 		Stone cutting tools demonstration.
2 of 33 		Stone cutting demonstration
3 of 33 		Sandstone polishing demonstration
4 of 33 		Quarry workers posing in front of Quarry office. Names around picture border.
5 of 33 		Mr. Brunton
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Drilling holes for explosives
7 of 33 		Gordon Dewar, Stone Cutter
8 of 33 		Quarry derricks
9 of 33 		Mr. Lyle, quarry owner standing, in front of the guarry office about 1935.
10 of 33 		Clarence Murphy
11 of 33 		Twenty ton block of stone
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Derricks were used in quarries to help lift, move and load, the many tons of rock.
13 of 33 		Diamond saw cutting sandstone
14 of 33 		Ship loading sandstone from the Gravity Railroad in Wallace Harbour.
15 of 33 		Stone Cutting Demonstration
16 of 33 		Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
17 of 33 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
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