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| View Original: | A child turns a rougly carved scrap of marble into a playhouse in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado. Such remnants of various sizes and quality can be seen throughout the LCCN2015633929.tif.tiff (0x0) | |||
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| Keywords: A child turns a rougly carved scrap of marble into a playhouse in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado. Such remnants of various sizes and quality can be seen throughout the LCCN2015633929.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; Founded in 1899 Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners The marble of the quarry is considered to be of exceptional quality and has been used for the Tomb of the Unknowns and much of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C as well as civic buildings in San Francisco and a skyscraper in New York City It was thought that the marble quarry had played out and the town of Marble turned into an obscure outpost of rough mountain cabins But Colorado Stone Quarries Inc an Italian-based company found a new and rich vein and as of 2015 is producing distributing and exporting high-quality white marble Colorado's state stone once again ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015633929 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/33900/33913a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 33913 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 33913 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Marble Colorado Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||