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Aerial view of quarry, Glen Mills, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18024.jpg
Date: 1935-1945
View shows the quarry at the intersection of Stoney Bank Road (curving in the bottom right) and Forge Road (just out of the picture at the bottom. Formerly known as General Crushed Stone, this quarry is now (2020) part of Hanson Aggregates, and is…

Ed and Harvey with steam tractor in quarry, Gayley Street and Park Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01159.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. A large apartment complex now sits in the land that was once the quarry.

Quarry, Chester, Pa

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14009A.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1912
One of four cyanotypes. Exact location not noted.

Quarry, Chester, Pa

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14009B.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1912
One of four cyanotypes. Exact location not noted.