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o        Description: This page contains information about Santa Ynez Quarry No. 2, looking up the quarry a few days after a big blast. This quarry operates in conjunction with and supplies stone for Project 12-133, Lower Los Angeles River (near Huntington Park), Project 13-132, Lower Ballona Creek, and Project 13-134, Lower Los Angeles River (near Griffith Park). ERA-Hired Labor. Volume II, Picture No. 13, 1936.

·         Quarrying / Forest reserves

o        Description: This page contains information about Feldspar quarry on Helen Mica Lode

·         Quarrying / Granite / Laborers / Expeditions & surveys

o        Description: This page contains information about Quarrying granite for the Mormon temple

·         Quarrying / Railroad tracks

o        Description: This page contains information about Wrangell, Alaska. View showing quarry at Wrangell. 3 June, 1924.

·         Quartz / Mountains / Landscape photographs / Expeditions & surveys

o        Description: This page contains information about Quartz veins on Tower Mountain. Baker's Park. Silverton Quadrangle. San Juan County, Colorado.

·         Quilting / Native Americans / Women / Children / Girls / Arts & Crafts

o        Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, of Native American women making rugs, quilts, and other craft articles, from Carson Agency Annual Extension Report for 1940 (Narrative Section).

·         Quilts / Bedrooms / Beds / Interiors / Religious articles / Devotional images

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Rooms in all these houses differ considerably as to furniture, arrangement and shape, but almost all of them are surprisingly clean and well kept. The influence of the church on the lives of these people is very strongly reflected in the decorating to be seen on the walls of their homes. Notice that nearly every one of these pictures shows some sort of religious symbol. Details of interiors.... The bedroom...[is] typical, with [its] iron bedsteads and heavy clother trunks. Crowding is not a problem in El Cerrito where a number of houses stand vacant and certain members of almost every family are away trying to earn a little money as day laborers.

·         Quilts / Photographs / Rocking chairs / Chandeliers

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. “Quatro de enfrente“, front room, of a Taos home. Rarely opened, every house with sufficient space, (that is, a room to spare) has such a room, closed off and unheated, except for special guests and occasions.

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