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Quarries and quarrying

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  • A quarry from which stones were cut to make the pavements of Naples, showing strata of lava from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • Penrhyn slate quarries, near Bangor, Wales. Lithograph.
  • A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.
  • A stone quarry: masons are working the stone, and a team of horses is pulling a cart carrying a massive stone. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
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    A quarry from which stones were cut to make the pavements of Naples, showing strata of lava from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 43628i
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    A stone quarry: masons are working the stone, and a team of horses is pulling a cart carrying a massive stone. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.

    Adam, Victor, 1801-1866. | Date: [1828] | Reference: 36991i
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    A stone-quarry: quarry workers levering slabs of stone, and a horse-drawn cart loaded with stones. Lithograph by F.J. Manskirch, ca. 1805.

    Manskirch, Franz Joseph, 1768-1840. | Date: [1805?] | Reference: 573328i
    Part of: Specimens of polyautography.
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    Penrhyn slate quarries, near Bangor, Wales. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 43951i
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    The North Wales quarry hospitals : and the health and welfare of the quarrymen / Edward Davies.

    Davies, Edward, 1926- | Date: 2003
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