Barre, Vermont, 1917 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Barre, Vermont, 1917, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Granite plants on Blackwell St. Meadow, Barre, Vt.
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Barre, Vermont, 1917
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Barre, Vermont, in 1917 was a granite city in the middle of a world war. The United States entered the First World War in April of that year, and in Barre the effects reached the quarries and cutting sheds as young men left for military service and employers worried about losing skilled stonecutters. Granite from the Barre quarries still went out by rail to customers across the country, and the valley along the Stevens Branch remained crowded with derricks, sheds, and freight yards. Residents who looked up at the hillsides would have seen the quarry faces that gave the town its reputation, and they would have known the place mainly as a producer of cut stone, with its fortunes tied to building and memorial work.
| 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 × 1,147 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Granite plants on Blackwell St. Meadow, Barre, Vt. |
| Reference | VT Barre 1917 |
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