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Black and white photograph of Cold Spring Granite Company Plant, c.1940.

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Cold Spring Granite Company Plant, Cold Spring, Minnesota, c.1940.

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Stearns History Museum

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Cold Spring Granite Company and the Henry N. Alexander Family

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