TITLE Shaleton Shale Quarry (Panel 1)
DATE OF ORIGINAL 1906-12-15
DATE OF DIGITAL 2006-2
DESCRIPTION THE PLANT - This is 1/4 of a picture of one of the shale quarries of the Atlas Portland Cement Company in its early years.  This picture gives an excellent prospective as to the size of the railcars used to transport the shale.  On the platform in the center are several horse drawn wagons.  The horses would be unhitched, and the wagons upended by the laborers (several pictured, but none identified) to dump the shale into the railcars for transport.  The destination of the shale was the plant and once processed into cement, the finished product would be placed in cars and transported by the CB&Q Railroad (notice the name on the car at bottom right)  to widespread customers.  Eventually cement from this plant would be used to construct the Panama Canal and the Empire State Building.
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 (Ilasco, Mo.) -- Quarries.
SUBJECT Atlas Portland Cement Company (Ilasco, Mo.) -- Immigrant laborers.
SUBJECT Shale quarries and quarrying -- Missouri -- Ilasco.
ORIGINAL FORMAT Black and white photograph, 9 1/2" by 7 1/2", 1/4 of a larger picture, approximately 38" by 7 1/2" ; some yellowing and spotting ; the number "1248" is written in the upper right corner.  The pictured is glued to a woven material background that extends beyond the left side.  The material contains several puncture holes (for insertion into a binder).  (1248)
DIGITAL FORMAT jpg
PANORAMA VIEW  
IDENTIFIER C10097