Planing-machines; Lintels; Church buildings; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Planers such as the side planer in this image being used to fashion a church lintel carved in 1974 for the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, were indispensable for producing polished, uniformly textured pieces.
Employees; Planing-machines; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Like the milling machine, planers--which had long been employed in metal and woodworking--gradually came to occupy a central place in the stoneworker's tool kit. In this example, a stoneworker draws the machine across the stone by means of a...
Planing-machines; Lintels; Church buildings; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Planers such as the side planer seen here were used to fashion various limestone pieces. The planer on the left is working across the stone. Here two workers can be seen carving figures into large slabs of limestone.
Consolidated Stone Company; Quarries and quarrying; Gray limestone; Indiana--History; Industrial productivity; Limestone Industry--History; Lawrence County (Ind.)
Covers the limestone industry in Lawrence County, Indiana
Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Fox Family; Thrasher Family; Mitchell Family; McCormick Family
Milling machinery; Employees; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
By the late nineteenth-century technological advances greatly reduced the time and effort formerly required to work the stone. In this image a man operates a rotary milling machine by hand, used for drilling holes in large slabs of stone. The...
Employees; Limestone mills; Quarries and quarrying; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
In this exterior shot of an early limestone mill, several figures can be seen posing in front of the workshops in the background. Stacked stone in the gang saws inside bar on the left onto diamond saw, which were inverted for the planer.
Dimension stone; Planing-machines; Employees; Limestone mills; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
The planer mill had metal (usually zinc) patterns with each ticket, which specified the size and measurements. You may be able to determine who is working here based on the way the workers are dressed. The man in the white shirt may be quality...
Pike county, Indiana--History;
Dubois county, Indiana--History;
Pike county, Indiana--Biography
History of Pike and Dubois counties, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present; with biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc.; together with an extended history of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the state of...
