Breaking and sorting rocks (1891)

This unusual image shows a group of men engaging in the labor-intensive process of breaking rocks into pieces and sorting them by size for use in road construction.  A small smokestack in the background indicates that a steam engine powered the conveyor which carried pieces of rock up to a sorting sieve.

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