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Identifier/Call Number
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BHC 32
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Description
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This collection consists of many photographs of the Bilodeau family, the J. O. Bilodeau granite company, the granite industry in general, and Barre monuments. Of special interest is a group of photographs documenting the J. O. Bilodeau & Co. granite shed between 1951 and 1957 (folder 4) and another folder containing publicity photographs for the Barre Granite Association, also from the 1950s (folder 5). As well, there is a speech, possibly written by Lucien J. Bilodeau, and typescripts and publications by other authors concerning granite, the granite industry, and Barre's history and composition.
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Biography, Administrative History and Provenance
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Joseph O. Bilodeau, born on 4 August 1874 in Saint-Isidore, Quebec, emigrated to East Barre, Vermont, in 1895. He married Helen LaRochelle, born on 9 October 1884 in Arthabaska, Quebec, on 9 July 1902 in Barre, Vermont. Around 1904 he founded J. O. Bilodeau & Co., a granite manufacturing firm that specialized in monument polishing. J. O. Bilodeau died on 7 April 1926 in Barre, Vermont, of silicosis. Lucien J. Bilodeau (1903-1993) and his sister Rachel Bilodeau Greiner (1906-1991) were part of an extended family prominent in Barre's granite industry. They also had a sister, Gertrude (1906-1998). After the death of J. O. Bilodeau in 1926, Lucien took over the family granite company, while Rachel worked in the company office, becoming treasurer after the death of her mother in 1968.
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Extent
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.5 linear feet
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