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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
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Layers sandstone deposit
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Stone from blast exposing where a bowl had formed.
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A small herd of bowls
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Petrified tree trunk from the plant Coridites.
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Growth rings visible in the petrified tree trunk found in the quarry.
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Placing of stone wedges called ''gads'' in order to split stone.
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Stone face after blast
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Quarry workers posing in front of Quarry office. Names around picture border.
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Derrick
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Boot scraper made at the Battye Quarry
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Rock waste,(spall) pile
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Drilling holes for explosives
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Gordon Dewar, Stone Cutter
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Quarry derricks
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Scabble rock boat. Used to haul ''rip rap'' and waste from the quarry.
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Mr. Lyle, quarry owner standing, in front of the guarry office about 1935.
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Quarry pond
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Runway for stone delivery to the gang saws
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