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...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Country Cook Inn Closes; Fair Dates Set; Town Council Notes, Eastern Howard County SHows Growth
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Could Be off Sewer Ban-At a Cost; Large Auction of Greentown Glass Held; Syringes Being improperly Disposed; Prom Queen and King
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
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...
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.
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...
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...
Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Fox Family; Thrasher Family; Mitchell Family; McCormick Family
