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Two workers show off their pneumatic rock drill at a rock quarry.

A group of men (a few smoking cigars) watches workers demonstrate using a machine to cut paving stones at a quarry. Location unknown.

A sand heater used for the mastic in paving a city street. The date and location has been written on the image. June 2, 1916. 373 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York. Notice the supports for the elevated railroad tracks above. A large billboard…

An asphalt mastic heater being used in paving a street.

This is a different view of the street work pictured in the slide named Kirchin011. Workers' jackets still hang on the fence.

As they pave a newly laid street, a crew uses a Hassan patent grout mixer.

A cement grout batch mixer in action. Appears to be Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. A different view of this location is shown on Kirchin021.

This crew, using one of the larger machines, is preparing the surface of a city street for paving.  The city is likely one of the greater cities in the northeastern section of the United States.