Engraving
- Title:
- The New Hampshire Granite Ledge
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2017.041.11
- Creator:
- Deeley, Caleb (1799-1854)
Engraver - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1837-1838
- Description:
- Engraving of granite cutting and transport at Rattlesnake Hill, Concord, NH. Engraved by Caleb Deeley (1799-1854), Boston, MA, 1837-1838. Titled at bottom, "THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANITE LEDGE, / At Concord, N.H." Flatboat with sail, carrying granite blocks on Merrimack River in foreground. Horses pulling cars loaded with granite on rails into shed on shore. Another flatboat being loaded under overhang of shed. Factory building with smokestack in center. Long shed on left with workers dressing granite. Workers cutting granite on ledges in background. Imprinted, lower right, "C. Deeley, Sc. Boston."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-5.8 W-8.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Cut from top of a share certificate for the Concord Granite and Railway Company. From Swenson Granite Company Collection, Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Kurt Swenson and Kevin Swenson and all of the former owners of Swenson Granite Company from October 18, 1883, to September 16, 2016
- Subjects:
- Granite quarrying, Granite, Horse railroads
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