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| View Original: | Columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town of Marble in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand at what is LCCN2015633767.tif.tiff (0x0) | |||
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| Keywords: Columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town of Marble in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand at what is LCCN2015633767.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; The mill took giant hunks of marble quarried high above cleaned and refined them for shipment to customers including wealthy homeowners looking to add classical touches to their estates and government entities seeking fine-quality marble for public buildings Marble from this operation was used to create the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Virginia The marble veins slowly played out and the company stopped and started production several times before closing in 1941 In recent years as of 2015 however a new and richer lode of marble was uncovered and production under the ownership of an Italian marble company resumed Next door to this site at the time of this photograph trucks carrying multi-ton blocks of marble pulled into that company's operational headquarters 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015633767 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/33700/33751a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 33751 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 33751 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Marble Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||