Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: "Skateboard" Ordinance Tabled; Memorial Day Traditions; Peter Heck Hired; Healy is New Eastern School Superintendent
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Howard Community Hospital Plans Greentown Medical Center; Orchestra to Present Concert
National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.); Limestone Industry--Printed ephemera; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Program page from the ceremony celebrating the opening of the Washington National Cathedral (The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul). "Praise him and magnify him forever."
Limestone Industry--Printed ephemera; Matthews Brothers Stone Company--Centennial
typed note; "Sincere congratulations and every good wish for the future; A hundred years is quite a while; for Matthews' stone to be in style; the second hundred should be just the same; Thus perpetuating the Matthews' name"
Limestone mills; Quarries and quarrying; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Pictured here is the Matthew Brothers stone plant which operated from 1862 until 1978 when it was sold to the Bybee Stone Company, which is still in operation in Ellettsville.
Planing-machines; Lintels; Church buildings; Matthews Brothers Stone Company
Planers such as the side planer in this image being used to fashion a church lintel carved in 1974 for the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, were indispensable for producing polished, uniformly textured pieces.