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1. Aerial view of Cold Spring Granite Company campus, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1972
Description:
Aerial view looking northeast of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site, Granite Bronze building and opalescent quarry.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Aerial view of Cold Spring Granite Company campus, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1981
Description:
Aerial view looking southwest of Cold Spring Granite Company main plant production site, Granite Bronze building 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, 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

4. 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

5. Anchor chain manufactured by the Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1943?
Description:
Interior view of Cold Spring Granite Company where an anchor chain is being manufactured for Navy ships during World War II.
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:
Main plant view of Cold Spring Granite Company looking southwest from the main street bridge area.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Cold Spring Granite Company office, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1952?
Description:
View of Cold Spring Granite Company office building. The exterior of the building is in the process of being clad in granite.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

14. Cold Spring Granite Company's first steel plant building during construction, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1929
Description:
View looking east of Cold Spring Granite Company's first steel plant building being erected just south of old main plant buildings. John Alexander and young son, Jack, are pictured left center.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Albumen prints

15. Drag saw at Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota

Date Created:
1925?
Description:
View of drag saw in shed attached to Cold Spring Granite Company.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. 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

17. Gang saws at the Cold Spring Granite Company, Stearns County, Minnesota

Date Created:
1923?
Description:
First gang saws used to cut granite slabs at Rockville/Cold Spring Granite Company main plant.
Contributing Institution:
Stearns History Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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
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