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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 31 		Stone cutting tools demonstration.
2 of 31 		Stone cutting demonstration
3 of 31 		Sandstone polishing demonstration
4 of 31 		Quarry workers posing in front of Quarry office. Names around picture border.
5 of 31 		Mr. Brunton
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Drilling holes for explosives
7 of 31 		Gordon Dewar, Stone Cutter
8 of 31 		Mr. Lyle, quarry owner standing, in front of the guarry office about 1935.
9 of 31 		Clarence Murphy
10 of 31 		Twenty ton block of stone
11 of 31 		Derricks were used in quarries to help lift, move and load, the many tons of rock.
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Diamond saw cutting sandstone
13 of 31 		Stone Cutting Demonstration
14 of 31 		Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
15 of 31 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
16 of 31 		A giant cable drum
17 of 31 		Quarry end of gravity rail road
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