Collection Name	Matthews- MCHS
Item ID	2001.060.0007.jpg
Title	Matthews carvers in mill
Description	While certain stoneworkers engaged themselves in the backbreaking work--from hoisting and cutting to transport--normally associated with the limestone industry, others found work as cutters and carvers. This image depicts one such group working on projects ranging from large, classical friezes to smaller sculpted figures. Many of the industry's workers came as unskilled workers from Italy and Germany, though by the late nineteenth-century other groups had made notable inroads including, as this image indicates, African-Americans. Stone was prepared for shipment in railroad cards and packed with wood chips called hay. Note the man operating the traveler belts.
Subject	Employees--Stone carvers Stone carving--Friezes Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Type	photograph
Item Type	photographic print
Language	en
Source	MCHS 2001.060.0007
Usage Rights	Digital image copyright 2009, Monroe County Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Ordering Information	This image is protected by copyright. For permission to reproduce this image, please contact the Monroe County History Center, 202 E. Sixth St., Bloomington, Indiana. www.monroehistory.org
Technical Metadata	image/jpeg
Scanning Device	Epson 10000xl
Digital Date	2009-07-10
Bit Depth	24-bit
Resolution	600dpi
Scanning Technician	Margaret Browndorf
Transcriber	N/A
Metadata Cataloger	Margaret Browndorf