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.
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.
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.
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.
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).