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New Bandon Quarry

Items are two photographs of the New Bandon, NB quarry which show workers attaching large stones to mechanical lifts.

Pulp Stone Operations

Items are twelve photographs printed on three pages from an unidentified publication. Each picture contains a caption explaining the photographs, which show various stages of the grindstone production process.

Quarry Equipment

Item is a photograph showing the landscape of an unidentified quarry and the machinery used to lift large pieces of stones.

Quarryville Finishing Works

Item is a printed photograph from an unidentified publication, displaying grindstones that were quarried at Quarryville, 15 miles west of Newcastle on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick.

Read Grindstone History

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.

Read Stone Company Fond

  • CA THT ReadStone
  • Fonds
  • 1800-2009

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.

Read Stone Quarry

Item is a blank postcard with a photograph of the Stonehaven, NB quarry on the front. Text on the front bottom-right corner reads, “Read Stone Quarry, Stonehaven, NB”

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