Beaudet, Lefaivre & Garneau Stone Order
- CA PANB MC224-MS10-11
- Item
- July 25, 1888
Part of Read Stone Co. Ltd.
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Beaudet, Lefaivre & Garneau Stone Order
Part of Read Stone Co. Ltd.
Red Saddle No. 444 Advertising Sample
Part of Read Stone Co. Ltd.
Additional advertisement samples available in file MS29/37
Grindstone Production Newspaper Article
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a photocopy of a front page newspaper spread from the St. John Standard discussing the Read family, the grindstone business, the quarry at Stonehaven and related topics.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a copy of the history of the Read Grindstone as dictated to George Stanely by Herbert William Read in 1971. Document was revised and edited by Herbert W. Read’s son, Herbert C. Read.
First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are two photographs of the New Bandon, NB quarry which show workers attaching large stones to mechanical lifts.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are two photographs of large grindstones loaded onto rail cars at Stonehaven, NB.
Stonehaven Coffer Dam Operation
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Items are ten photographs of the Stonehaven, NB quarry, including various images of the coffer dam built to remove water from the area, and a number of photographs showing stacks of finished grindstones.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item contains two prints of an image of men working on grindstones behind a coffer dam [probably in Stonehaven, NB].
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a photograph of a group of men working in an unidentified quarry.