1890 print: MARBLE QUARRIES in VERMONT; Rutland Proctor Mente; 4 views & article

Description

“Marble Quarries and
Marble Dressing in Vermont.”
1890
This is a single wood-engraved sheet only, which is
over 130 years old
! It was published in the
Nov. 15, 1890
, issue of
Harper’s Weekly
, America’s most popular illustrated periodical in the 1800s.
The page measures 11 x 16 inches in size, and is in excellent and attractive condition, with a mild bit of age browning.
It presents a four scenes drawn by Charles Mente, showing the operations of marble quarries in Vermont. The scenes are identified with these labels:
* Polishing Bed
* Quarry No. 3 - West Rutland
* Turning Lathe
* Great Quarry at Proctor Vt.
The entire back of the page is devoted to a detailed related article with the title,
“THE MARBLE QUARRIES OF VERMONT,”
which runs for over 500 lines of text there. The original article continued on for 9 additional lines of text on a following page, and a photocopy of that brief concluding material will be included with this print.
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