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Beauty in Stone : the industrial films of the Georgia Marble Company
Two industrials films depicting the Pickens County-based Georgia Marble Company's operations during the 1950s and 1960s
More About This Collection
Creator
Georgia Marble Company
Contributor to Resource
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, Pickens County Library (Jasper, Ga.)
Date of Original
1950/1969
Subject
Alabama Limestone Company (Russellville, Ala.)
Alberene Stone Corporation of Virginia
Capitols--Conservation and restoration
Crushed stone industry--Equipment and supplies
Crushed stone industry--Georgia--Pickens County
Crushing machinery--Georgia--Pickens County
Cutting machines--Georgia--Pickens County
Fitzsimmons, Henry T., 1802-1845
Georgia Marble Company--Employees
Georgia Marble Company--Equipment and supplies
Georgia Marble Company--Georgia--Pickens County
Georgia Marble Company--History
Georgia Marble Company--Machinery
Green Mountain Marble Company (West Rutland, Vt.)
Grinding and polishing
Historic sites--Washington (D.C.)
Hoisting machinery--Georgia--Pickens County
Industrial films--Georgia--Pickens County
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Inauguration, 1961
Limestone industry--Alabama--Russellville
Limestone mines and mining--Alabama--Russellville
Limestone--Alabama--Russellville
Machinery in the workplace
Marble industry and trade--Equipment and supplies
Marble industry and trade--Georgia--Pickens County
Marble industry and trade--Machinery
Marble industry--Vermont--West Rutland
Marble--Georgia
Marble--Vermont--West Rutland
Presidents--United States--Inauguration
Public buildings--Washington (D.C.)
Quarries and quarrying--Equipment and supplies
Quarries and quarrying--Georgia--Pickens County
Quarries and quarrying--Machinery
Quarries and quarrying--Tennessee--Friendsville
Quarries and quarrying--Vermont--West Rutland
Saws--Georgia--Pickens County
Serpentine--Virginia--Alberene
Stone carvers--Georgia--Pickens County
Stone carving--Georgia--Pickens County
Stone carving--Washington (D.C.)
Stone-cutters--Georgia--Pickens County
Stone-cutting tools--Georgia--Pickens County
Surface preparation
Tennessee Marble Company
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Location
United States, Georgia, Pickens County, Nelson, 34.38204, -84.37103
United States, Georgia, Pickens County, Tate, 34.41843, -84.3827
Medium
color films (visual works)
Type
Moving Image
Description
The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products. Georgia Marble Company's use of the industrial film medium served to promote its products by capturing in live action the skill and industry required to create "beauty in stone." The first film, New Face on Capitol Hill, depicts Georgia Marble Company's role in the reconstruction of the east façade of the U.S. Capitol building prior to John F. Kennedy's inauguration, and includes footage of president John F. Kennedy at his 1961 inauguration, the former vice president Richard M. Nixon, and Architect of the Capitol J. George Stewart. The second film, Producing America's Buried Treasures, focuses more closely on the company's overall history, its quarrying and finishing facilities in Georgia, Tennessee and Vermont, the breadth of applications for Georgia marble products and related limestone and serpentine industries in Alabama and Virginia. Unique to this film are its highlights of uses for processed marble in products that include roofing material, and turf marking for athletic fields. Both Producing America's Buried Treasure and the New Face on Capitol Hill feature the company's marble quarrying and finishing operations in Pickens County, Georgia; both include pictorial examples of marble-quarrying and marble-shaping machinery, of stone cutters working in the quarry, and of craftsmen sculpting the marble. Many beautiful high-quality products were produced by the Georgia Marble Company, and a number of well-known structures comprised of Georgia marble are interspersed throughout both films. Most notable are the statue Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, and the façade of the U.S. Capitol Building, the centerpiece of New Face on Capitol Hill., Beauty in Stone is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Pickens County Library of the Sequoyah Regional Library System, the Marble Valley Historical Society, the Georgia Archives, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Language
eng
Original Collection
From the Georgia Dept. of Industry and Trade. Tourist Division. Promotional films on Georgia industry. Record group 28, sub-group 4, series 6, Georgia Archives.
Holding Institution
Pickens Historical Society (Jasper, Ga.)
Georgia Archives
Rights