QUARRY STONE

This experimental collage-film is composed of digitized images of plates from printed books by the Norwegian-American immigrant and amateur historian Hjalmar Holand. The images play under a recording of a story from a descendant of white settlers from New Ulm, Minnesota, collected by Minnesota Historical Society staff members during 2011 and 2012. When this web page is loaded and/or reloaded, code selects and loads a random sequence of image files and a random audio track from local asset folders to produce the experience of the collage-film.

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QUARRY STONE by Maxwell Gray is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Based on a work at https://quarrystoneindustry.com.) Project research and development take place at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Marquette University campus and Milwaukee are the homelands and waters of the Menominee, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk and Ojibwe nations, who have known this land and water as a relative for millennia and who remain our hosts on the land today. Milwaukee is covered by the 1833 Treaty of Chicago signed by the United States and Potawatomi and acknowledge it cleaved and dispersed this tribal nation through removal. (Learn more about engagement and disclosure notices at Local Contexts.)