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1. Hand striking granite slab at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Creator:
Ryan, George Miles, 1911-1991
Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Herman Nierenhausen holds a bull set while Leonard Deters is in the process of hitting it with a sledgehammer to "strike" a granite slab at Cold Spring Granite Company.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Aerial view of Cold Spring Granite Company, main plant, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950
Description:
Aerial view looking southwest of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site and opalescent quarry.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Aerial view of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1938?
Description:
Aerial view looking northeast of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site located in Cold Spring, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Aerial view of Diamond Pink quarry, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1958-07-22
Description:
Aerial view of the Diamond Pink quarry owned by the Cold Spring Granite Company located between Rockville and Waite Park, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Aerial view of the Charcoal Black quarry, near St. Cloud, Minnesota

Date Created:
1981?
Description:
Aerial view of the Charcoal Black quarry owned by the Cold Spring Granite Company located three miles south of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Carborundum saw at Cold Spring Granite Company, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1935?
Description:
First carborundum saw (circular saw) used in the main Cold Spring Granite Company plant.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

7. Carborundum saw at Cold Spring Granite Company, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1957?
Description:
Carborundrum saw (circular saw) in main plant being operated by Cold Spring Granite Company employee, Mike Merten.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

8. Cold Spring Granite Company main plant and Sauk River dam, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930?
Description:
View of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant and Sauk River dam looking southwest from railroad tracks.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

9. Cold Spring Granite Company main plant, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930?
Description:
View of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site looking southeast from north side of tracks
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

10. Cold Spring Granite Company main plant, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
View of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site looking northwest across the Sauk river.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Cold Spring Granite Company main plant, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1928?
Description:
View of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site looking northeast from the north side of railroad tracks.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Electric furnaces, Cold Spring Granite company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946
Description:
Pete Kraemer operating one of the electric furnaces at the Cold Spring Granite company. The furnaces were used to make steel shot for use in gang saws and the polishing line. Cold Spring Granite was the only granite company to produce its own shot.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Granite cutting lathe at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1957-05-13
Description:
Granite cutting lathe being operated by Popeye Kammemeier in main Cold Spring Granite Company plant.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Granite splitting machine at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956-09-28
Description:
Granite splitting machine built by the Cold Spring Granite Company being used by Ben Goebel (left) and George Blasius (right).
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Granite statue of Jesus Christ, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960?
Description:
A finished granite statue of Jesus Christ standing on a round granite pedestal in the main plant.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Grinder on polishing line at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1955?
Description:
Grinder on polishing line in use at the Cold Spring Granite Company plant. Operatored by Gregor Dullinger.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Hand polishers at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1930?
Description:
Hand polishers with pneumatic hand held polishing machines polishing stone in the main Cold Spring Granite Company plant. Three polishers are identified as: Erling Anderson (tall man in front looking sideways), Joe Fink (far right, wearing dark, dirty work clothes) and Carl Norlin (to Fink's right and wearing cleaner clothes).
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Hand polishing machine at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956-08-08
Description:
Hand polishing machine in main the Cold Spring Granite Company plant being operated by Prosper Goering.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Hitler headstone at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1942-1945?
Description:
An Adolf Hitler headstone produced at the Cold Spring Granite Company for the war effort. It reads: "Here Lies Hitler Buried in U.S. Production."
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Interior of main plant at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960?
Description:
Interior of main Cold Spring Granite Company plant looking down from second story of building.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Large circle saw at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1949?
Description:
Large circle saw used to cut granite being operated by Tim Murphy.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Main plant addition at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929
Description:
Steel structure addition to main plant at Cold Spring, looking east. Albert Kahn, famous industrial architect from Detroit, designed this structure.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Men preparing to hoist a slab of granite at Diamond Pink quarry, near Rockville, Minnesota

Date Created:
1955
Description:
Inside of the Diamond Pink quarry with quarrymen preparing to hook a slab for removal by derrick. The quarry was located between Waite Park and Rockville, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Polishing machine at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1955?
Description:
Polishing machine in use in the main Cold Spring Granite Company plant.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Shot boring machine produced at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Shot boring machine at Cold Spring Granite Company plant, used in quarries to extract granite.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Shot circle saw at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947
Description:
Shot circle saw used by Cold Spring Granite Company to cut granite. Operated by Jake Koelbl.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Side rubbing and polishing machine Shot circle saw at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1960?
Description:
Saw 14, side rubbing and polishing machine invented by Patrick Alexander in use in the Cold Spring Granite Company plant and operated by Gilbert Guggenberger.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Stone carver Dale Hollander at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1956-06-11
Description:
Stone carver Dale Hollander using a pneumatic chisel to carve a granite likeness of Jesus Christ at Cold Spring Granite Company.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

29. Storage yard at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1928?
Description:
Cold Spring Granite Company storage yard south of the main plant with crane and yard hookman in background, looking east.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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