Granite, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre, Vermont, 1917 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Granite, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre, Vermont, 1917, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Granite plants, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre, Vt.
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Granite, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre, Vermont, 1917
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Barre, Vermont, in 1917 was known across the country as a granite center, with quarries cut into the hills above town and carving sheds along the valley floor where monument and building stone was dressed and polished. Much of that skilled work fell to stonecutters from Italy, Scotland, and Quebec, whose churches, societies, and languages gave the city a distinctly mixed character. Rail lines carried finished granite to buyers far beyond Vermont, so the trade's fortunes rose and fell with demand for memorials and public buildings. The United States had entered the First World War only weeks before this view was made, and like other New England industrial towns, Barre felt that change through enlistments and war-time production.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | mcallister, l. l. (louis l.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,092 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Granite plants, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre, Vt. |
| Reference | VT Granite, Wiley St. Meadow, Barre 1917 |
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