| P number: | P576140 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Cream, Grant's Quarry, Alabama. Grant's Quarry, Alabama. |
| Description: | Label name: Cream, Grant's Quarry, Alabama. Alternative name: Alabama Cream White. Specimen description: Nearly uniform white (some grey tint). Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 588 ALABAMA CREAM WHITE. Gantts Quarries, Talladega County, Alabama. As the specimen shews, this marble is nearly white in colour, fine in texture, and , unusually hard for a white crystalline rock. It is often employed for internal panelling. Examples may be seen in the Banking Room of the Custom House, New York, and in the Insurance Exchange, Chicago. It was also used for decorating the interior of the State Capitol of Arkansas. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 79.29 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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