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Works Progress Administration quarry workers at the Rowena Quarry harvesting stone by hand. Photograph. no date

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Title	Works Progress Administration quarry workers at the Rowena Quarry harvesting stone by hand. Photograph. no date
Title-Alternative	Rowena quarry on Guy Webster farm, WPA; WPA workers at Rowena Quarry on Guy Webster farm. Photograph. no date
Subject (FAST)	Quarries and quarrying Portraits, Group United State--Sioux Quartzite Miners Horse-drawn vehicles United States. Works Progress Administration Depressions Nineteen thirties
Geographic Location	Rowena (Minnehah, SD)
Item Description	Seventeen Works Progress Administration quarry workers removing granite from the Rowena Quarry, near Rowena, South Dakota. The men stand on various levels of the quarry wall with several horses in harnesses at the bottom of the image. Alternative title from text inscribed on slide frame.
Collection Description	The Historic Sioux Falls Slide Collection, available at the Center for Western Studies, consists of nearly 3,000 photographic slides of Sioux falls and the surrounding area from the 1860s - 1970s. These images depict various historic periods, locations, items, personalities and events. The collection is divided into 16 different sections. These sections include: Industry, Public Buildings, Business Buildings, Transportation, River and Bridges, Street Scenes, Houses, People, Parks, Institutions and Organizations, Churches, Civic Organizations, Small Surrounding Cities, Miscellaneous Sioux Falls items, Bird's eye view of the city, and a select Non-Sioux Falls photographs.
Type	Transparency, Slide
Format - Digital	image/jpeg
Format - Medium	Black-and-white slide
Identifier	30296_1_I_D_9
Link to Collection Page	http://cdm16078.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16078coll17
Contributing Institution	Center for Western Studies, Augustana University
Rights	This item maybe protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rightsholder(s) for instances falling under "fair use" as defined in United States copyright law. For other uses obtaining permission from the rightsholder(s) and the Center for Western Studies is required. Credit lines should appear immediately adjacent to the image or on a separate acknowledgments page and must read, “Courtesy Center for Western Studies, Augustana University."
Dimensions - Height	1 in
Dimensions - Width	1.5 in
OCLC number	988776466
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Works Progress Administration quarry workers at the Rowena Quarry harvesting stone by hand. Photograph. no date

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