Keywords: Feldspar
Item 108668
Feldspar quarry, Georgetown, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Georgetown Media: Glass Negative
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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite
"… light and fine grained, with a high percentage of feldspar which made it easily worked in the quarry and under the chisel."
