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Stone Masons
Stone masons – Laborers laying granite blocks in front of the Salisbury Depot in the early 1900s.
KirchinOther032
A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated October 4, 1970 documenting Reg Kirchin's career as a stone cutter.
Miller020
A Salisbury Evening Post newspaper clipping dated September 4, 1972 proclaims Rowan County is 60,000 pounds lighter as a slab of pink granite is transported by rail to Hartford, Connecticut.
Miller014
Sam Earnhardt and George Wear loading a large piece of granite onto a flatbed truck trailer.
Tags: Block, Earnhardt; Sam, Flatbed Truck, Granite, Wear; George
KirchinOther024
This photo shows two unidentified men taking a break from shaping granite into blocks with hammers.
Tags: Block, Granite, Hammer, Stone, Unknown Person
KirchinOther023
A real photo post card showing crew member Jack Fleming (as identified on the back of the card), wielding a large hammer to break up granite blocks.
Tags: Blocks, Granite, Hammer, Jack Fleming, Real Photo Post Card, Stone
KirchinOther016
This is a similar view as shown in the Kirchin023 and KirchinOther015 photos.
A work crew pauses for a photograph. They are busy paving a street with Durax cubes.
The only identified person is Harry Kirchin who is standing toward the left of…
A work crew pauses for a photograph. They are busy paving a street with Durax cubes.
The only identified person is Harry Kirchin who is standing toward the left of…
RK Referral
A referral letter given to Reginald Kirchin from his employer, The Harris Granite Quarries Company.
The letter, dated May 3, 1922 at Salisbury, NC reads as follows:
To Whom it May Concern.
Reginald Kirchin started work in the employ of The Harris…
HK Declaration
Declarations of Intention (also known as First Papers) are the initial step in an immigrant's naturalization process. Harry Kirchin's Declaration of Intention was signed on December 28, 1910 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Kirchin091
This close-up of granite shows "a cut hammered curb."
Tags: Close Up, Cut Hammered Curb, Grain, Granite, Texture
Kirchin090
The label of this slide denotes "peen hammered curb."
Tags: Close Up, Grain, Granite, Peen Hammered Curb, Texture
Kirchin081
A slide image of a map that shows the distribution of granite and allied rocks in the United States. The map was compiled from other maps by G.F. Loughlin in 1918.
For some background information on the geologist, Gerald Francis Loughlin, click…
Tags: 1918, Allied Rocks, Distribution, Geological Surveys, GF Loughlin, Granite, Map, Maps, State, United States
Kirchin070
A view of a large dome of granite. Most likely Stone Mountain, North Carolina.
Tags: Dome, Granite, North Carolina, Stone Mountain
Kirchin046
According to the label on the slide, this is a view of Gorham Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The slide was taken to record that the street was paved 7 grade and laid in 1912.
Sadly, most of the buildings that are in the view no longer exist. …
Tags: Court House, Curbing, Gorham Street, Grade, Granite, Lowell, Massachusetts, Paving, Pharmacy, Raked Joint
Kirchin035
Placing each slab neatly in its place by truck is the new way of delivering granite curbing.
Notice the sign for the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. The signage actually helps date the photo. The time period is between 1907 when the Pentecostal…