TITLE	Limestone Quarry No. 5 (Left Side)
DATE OF ORIGINAL	1906-12-10
DATE OF DIGITAL	2006-2
DESCRIPTION	THE PLANT - This is half of a picture of one of the shale quarries of the Atlas Portland Cement Company in its early years.  Removing this limestone required both dangerous and backbreaking work, from setting dynamite charges to swinging a sledgehammer for hours at a time.  Most of this work was performed by immigrant laborers from south central Europe living in the company town of Ilasco.  Although unidentified, several of these employees can be seen in the picture.  Also visible are some of the horse drawn wagons used to transport the limestone to the kiln and/or the rail lines..
CREATOR	Atlas Portland Cement Company (Ilasco, Mo.)
CONTRIBUTOR	Continental Cement Company (Frank Salter)
PUBLISHER	Hannibal Free Public Library (Hannibal, Mo.)
SUBJECT	Atlas Portland Cement Company -- Quarries.
SUBJECT	Limestone quarries and quarrying -- Missouri -- Ilasco.
SUBJECT	Immigrant laborers -- Missouri -- Ilasco -- Quarries.
ORIGINAL FORMAT	Black and white photograph 7 3/4" by 9 1/4", 1/2 of folded bigger picture 15 1/2" by 9 1/4" ; the number "1232" is written in upper left corner ; lower edge from left to right contains missing segments and tears.  The picture is glued to a woven material background.  (1232)
DIGITAL FORMAT	jpg
IDENTIFIER	C10072