Browse Items (145 total)

  • Collection: Oren W. Hills' Photographs

"Big Stone"

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Landscape photograph of a very large pile of granite, with workmen scattered across it.

G. Parmer Company

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Photograph of a group of workmen with an ox team, surrounded by granite chunks.

Blanchard quarry

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Landscape photograph of a granite company in Barre, Vermont.

Wells & Lamson employees

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Photograph of granite works from the Wells & Lamson Quarry in Barre, Vermont.

Quarryman with horses

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Photograph of a quarryman moving a big piece of granite with a flat wagon.

View of a town

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Photograph of a riverside town from atop a big rock.

Dewey Day bonfire

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Photograph of the sixty foot stack of barrels and kindling of the bonfire constructed for the Dewey Day festivities in Montpelier, Vermont on October 12, 1899. The celebrations were in the honor of Admiral George Dewey, who was born in Montpelier,…

Bianchi Bros. Granite Firm

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Photograph of what appears to be an office space. People at both tables are reading or writing while a man interacts with some sort of teller in the background.

Racetrack

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Photograph of a racetrack in Moretown, Vermont. There appears to be a race in progress, though it is unclear what exactly is going on.

M. A. Corbett & Co.

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Photograph of a store that appears to offer various household goods.

Sawmill

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Photograph of a sawmill at the base of a hillside.

School

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Photograph of a school with a large group of children gathered out front with their teachers.