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William Stone papers
No full textWilliam B. Stone, Charles County, Maryland, lawyer and landowner, counted among his ancestors a number of influential Maryland politicians, including a proprietary governor from the early seventeenth century. Stone himself was at one time considered by the U.S. Senate for a federal judge's seat. National politics, slavery, individual slaves, legal and financial settlements are among the topics covered in Stone's papers, which consist of correspondence between Stone and relatives or business associates
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)’s Stone Worlds
No full textThis article explores the spatial, architectural and conceptual relationships between landscape places, stone quarrying, and stone moving and building during Rapa Nui’s statue-building period. These are central themes of the ‘Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project’ and are discussed using aspects of the findings of our recent fieldwork. The different scales of expression, from the detail of the domestic sphere to the monumental working of quarries, are considered. It is suggested that the impressiveness of Rapa Nui’s stone architecture is its conceptual coherence at the small scale as much as at the large scale. </div
Thomas Walter letter to Thomas Rotch, Philadelphia, 6 Mo 4th 1817
No full textThomas Walter queries Thomas Rotch about living conditions at Kendal, also about the requirements to establish a homestead at Kendal. He asks about the availability of stone, coal and limestone, and also inquires about neighbors in the area and their character. 6.25" x 7.5" (16 by 19.1 cm
Thomas Rotch accounts payable, Kendal 1818-1823
No full textThomas Drayton was credited for work worth $58.70 for building a chimney "in meeting house, laying harth at house," laying a stone wall, and for 33 bushels of lime. 7.75" x 8
Thomas Grisell letter to Thomas Rotch, 2nd mo 19th 1823
No full textThomas Grisell's letter reached the Rotch household several months before the unexpected death of Thomas Rotch in August, 1823. This is the last letter of the series and presumably the author learned of his friend's death before another letter was penned. 7.95" x 10" (20.2 by 25.5 cm
Stone chimney of the original Cotton Thomas homestead site (GCCS_CTC017_2)
No full textStone chimney of the original Cotton Thomas homestead site north of Grouse Creek, Utah. Grouse Creek Cultural Survey Site OGC 1. July, 1985. One 35 mm. color slide
Stone chimney of the original Cotton Thomas homestead site (GCCS_CTC017_1)
No full textStone chimney of the original Cotton Thomas homestead site north of Grouse Creek, Utah. Grouse Creek Cultural Survey Site OGC 1. July, 1985. One 35 mm. color slide
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