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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 16 		Stone cutting tools demonstration.
2 of 16 		Stone cutting demonstration
3 of 16 		Sandstone polishing demonstration
4 of 16 		Drilling holes for explosives
5 of 16 		Mr. Lyle, quarry owner standing, in front of the guarry office about 1935.
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Twenty ton block of stone
7 of 16 		Stone Cutting Demonstration
8 of 16 		Moving blocks of sandstone around in the quarry.
9 of 16 		Picture of the different layers worked to extract stone from the quarry.
10 of 16 		A giant cable drum
11 of 16 		Quarry end of gravity rail road
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Mainstreet Wallace 1910
13 of 16 		Group of quarrymen infront of a ''sloven'' A heavy duty wagon for moving rock.
14 of 16 		Group of scabblers, quarrymen who use picks to square up stone for shipment.
15 of 16 		Men working in the Dobson Quarry
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