Rockport Granite Company quarries, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
6.9 x 3.7 x 1.8 cm. Yttrocerite is an odd blue/purplish calcium fluoride with yttrium and cerium. In other words, it is weird chemistry and here shows as purple splotches. Ex. Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Hunk of smoky quartz, must have been fairly uncommon there to be added to Harvard U. collection - see child photo for label.
© 2022 Harold Moritz
Late nineteenth century photo. From: Sears, John Henry (1894): Geological and Mineralogical Notes, No. 9 in Bulletin of the Essex Institute, volume XXVI.
Babson Farm Quarry, Rockport Granite Company quarries, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Somehow an eel managed to get into the quarry. Photo taken in Nov. 2011
An old photo of the quarry from History of the Granite Industry of New England by Arthur Wellington Brayley (Boston, 1913).
Old postcard ca. 1908.
Flat Ledge Quarry, Rockport Granite Company quarries, Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
The flooded Flat Ledge quarry in winter. March 2009.
© 2014 Peter Cristofono
An old postcard view of the schooner "Yankee" of Gloucester, tied up at the Rockport Granite Company Wharf, Rockport Massachusetts. Henry Minot collection.
View of the quarry taken in Nov 2011
This old photo is from History of the Granite Industry of New England by Arthur Wellington Brayley (Boston, 1913).
Old postcard with a 1906 postmark.
Photo taken in Nov 2011
Loading stone at the Rockport Granite Company's docks. Old postcard view.
Photo by Peter Cristofono; October, 2013.
An old postcard view. Henry Minot collection.
Label for a hunk of smoky quartz, must have been fairly uncommon there to be added to Harvard U. collection.