Pulling Jack, sketched for Solomon Willard's book of 1843 on Monument.

Title:: Pulling Jack, sketched for Solomon Willard's book of 1843 on Monument.
Description:: Pulling Jack, sketched for Solomon Willard's book of 1843 on the monument. This machine was contrived and first used at the Bunker Hill quarry in Quincy. The power is about ten tons or with the addition of a sheave twenty tons. The blocks of stone were landed at Devens Wharf in Chas'n, whence a contractor transported three thousand tons of stone at 43 cents per ton to the site of the monument.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Author:: Willard, S. (Solomon), 1783-1861
Date:: 1843
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Monuments & memorials
Construction equipment
Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Bunker Hill Monument
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: Book is in Charlestown Branch Library.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-32-A4