CHAS. G. BLAKE & CO., CHICAGO COLLECTION, 1896-1914

Storage: Box Lot (2 boxes, 8x10 in.; 1 box 9x11 in.)

Accession Number: G1987.0193

Container List

Box 1

1 Assembling mausoleum in cemetery

2 Charles G. Blake in his office

3 Charles G. Blake - first stone sold by Blake & Co. in 1892

4 Chas. G. Blake Co. display window

5 Blake family cemetery plot

6 Blake & Co. parade float

7 Blocks of granite(?), uncarved

8 Building exterior - branch office

9 Building exterior - shops & office at 67th & Ellis

10 Building exterior - shops & office - other locations

11 Carving departments

12 Carving departments

13 Carving departments

14 Carving - outside

15 Carving a statue

Box 2

1 Engraving a tombstone

2 Engraving a tombstone

3 Fire damage to shop building

4 Fire - rebuilding after shops destroyed by fire

5 Model of monument honoring Governor Tanner of Illinois

6 Offices - interior

7 Polishing round work

8 Quarry

10 Sale yard with samples and building, Mt. Hope branch office

11 Statues and monuments

12 Statues (Board of Trade Bldg?)

13 Statues - "The Spirit of Commerce"

14 "Surfacing machine for cutting large flat surfaces economically"

15 Tombstone samples

Box 3

1 Blake & Co. basketball team, 1909-1910

2 Engine room

3 Roof stone for mausoleum (57 tons), transported by railway

4 Views of workers in the shops