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• 1.   Stone Masons
  1935
• 2.   Regional Sketch Map
  1935
• 3.   Special headwall 10' x 7' R.C. box
  May 25, 1935
• 4.   Special Headwall, 10' x 7' R.C. Box
  May 25, 1935
• 5.   Devils Garden Showing Steep Rocky Slopes
  May 31, 1935
• 6.   Before grading. Deep gullies in erosive soil. Need flattening and rounding. Contour ditches required above.
  July 25, 1935
• 7.   Before grading. Soft gullying material above rock. Flatten expose hard rock. Wide rounding.
  July 25, 1935
• 8.   Before grading. 1:1 cut gullying badly; too steep to grass; flatten and round for grass
  July 25, 1935
• 9.   Before grading. Gullies and cave-ins. Slope too steep.
  July 25, 1935
• 10.   Before grading. Gullies in fill. Soil erosive. Needs flattening.
  July 25, 1935
• 11.   Before grading. Showing objectionable effect of uniform slopes and insufficient rounding
  July 25, 1935
• 12.   Before grading. Detail showing depth of gullies in erosive soil. Rock decomposed into sand.
  July 25, 1935
• 13.   Before grading. Washout ditch filled; needs transition, rounding, and drainage structure.
  July 25, 1935
• 14.   First Grading Contract
  September 1935
• 15.   First Gradeing Contract
  September 1935
• 16.   First Grading Contract
  September 1935
• 17.   First Gradeing Contract
  September 1935
• 18.   New New River Bridge, Detail of Chimney of Old House
  September 17, 1935
• 19.   Roaring Gap Detail of stone entrance gate post
  September 17, 1935
• 20.   Stone work of Graystone Inn
  September 18, 1935
• 21.   Early Construction
  November 1, 1935
• 22.   Face of Sample Wall, Showing Raked Joints and Over 'Dressed Stone,' Giving a Hard, Formal Appearance
  November 12, 1935
• 23.   Back of sample wall, showing same stone laid in a more informal treatment, etc
  November 13, 1935
• 24.   Stripped area and top soil storage pile
  November 26, 1935
• 25.   Box culvert, 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 26.   Box culvert 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 27.   General view of construction rough grading
  November 26, 1935
• 28.   Rock filled tiled drain left of center line
  November 26, 1935
• 29.   General view construction through low area
  November 26, 1935
• 30.   Top soil stripping operations
  November 26, 1935

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