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  • Collection: Slate Quarries

Penn Lynn Quarry.jpg
Old stereoscopic image of the quarry on the outskirts of Slatington (now filled in and used by the borough).

Quarry4.jpg
Typical scene around a quarry with the cables used to hoist slate out of the quarry.

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371 Suicide webp.png
Has always been known as the suicide. Located north of Welshtown Road, east of Skeet Club Road.

Reduced.jpg
Old glass slide of the Franklin quarry showing the horizontal beds of slate.

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Tunnel Quarry Marker web.jpg
On Welshtown Road, right at the Slatington borough line.

Quarry3.jpg
Unidentified workers, photo postcard by Stauffer, Slatington, Pa.

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Emerald Slate Workers.jpg
Postcard showing two works in process of splitting and trimming roofing slates in Emerald, PA (near Slatington)

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Slateworkers.jpg
Unidentified workers at a quarry; the Blue Mountain is barely visible in the background.
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