From Quarry to Cemetery Monuments

References & Resources

• 1889 Vermont Marble Company Price List: Rutland, Sutherland Falls, & Dark Marble, Proctor, Vermont, 415 pp. (cemetery stones, monuments, and accessories) Due to the size of this book, I have broken the book into 4 sections in PDF. You can click on the thumbnail image of the “Index” page below to find the section of the book you wish to view, and then you can click on one of the following PDF links to view that section — Part 1. Title page through pp. 99 (about 14 MB) — Part 2. pp. 100-199 (about 14 MB) — Part 3. pp. 200-299 (about 14 MB) — Part 4. pp. 300-415 (17+ MB). Peggy B. Perazzo

  Title Page	Index / Contents

• A Monument Speaks, by Irene Dindo Podskainy, Adams Granite Co., P.O. Box 126, Lewis Street, Barre, Vermont, 1961. (Today the Adams Granite Co. is known as Adams North Barre Granite.)
• Aggregate Stone, on Wikipedia.
• Alphabetical List of California Stone Carvers section of the “Historical California Cemetery Stone & Monument Carvers & Dealers Historical Research” on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• “Antietam Memorials” Brochure, Pangborn Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland.
• The Association For Gravestone Studies
• Association For Gravestone Studies Archives (From the web site: “The AGS Archives contains collections donated primarily by members, and includes books, research papers, photographs, postcards, articles, and other gravestone related materials.  In April 2009, the AGS Board voted to transfer our Archives to the Department of Special Collections, University of Massachusetts , Amherst ….”
  • Association For Gravestone Studies Collection (1975-2008), located at the University of Massachusetts, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Amherst
  • Association For Gravestone Studies Lending Library
  • External Links for the United States & Other Countries (relating to cemetery stones)
• “‘Back in the Olden Days’ A Stone Cutter and His Trade,” by Charlote Cole, Manuscript student paper, 1979, Regional Studies Center at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas.  [Note: a transcription of Cole’s taped interview with P.E. Stone, tombstone carver, is also available. The       paper includes Cole’s drawings of Stone’s carving tools, a copy of a Pfeiffer Stone Company, Batesville, Ark. pamphlet titled “Crystalline Oolitic Marble ‘Arkansas White’” and excerpts from the Padgett Marble Company, Knoxville, Tennessee, Catalog No. 26, 1930.]
• Bell Marble Works Quarry Photographic Tour (located on the Marble Quarry RV grounds – open to the public)
• Benicia Arsenal Photographic Tour
• Book of Epitaphs (circa 1890s) (pdf) - Provided by Office of S. B. Sargent, Manufacturer of & Dealer in All Kinds of Marble & Granite Work, Tilton, New Hampshire  (The title and date of publication are unknown, although the S.B. Sargent company is listed in an 1893 publication.  The last half of the booklet is in German.)
• Brunner and Lay Tool Catalog - Brunner & Lay, Manufacturers of Marble, Stone, Granite and Bricklayers’ Tools, Stone Jacks, Derricks, and Contractors’ Supplies, 570 West Polk Street, Corner Jefferson and Polk Streets, Chicago, Illinois. (No date of publication)
• “The Building Stone and Aggregate Industry of the San Francisco Bay Counties,” by Mort D. Turner, in Geologic Guidebook of the San Francisco Bay Counties, Bulletin 154, State of California Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, San Francisco, pp. 235-238.
• California Historic Cemetery Alliance: Protecting, Restoring, Educating, Preserving (CHCA), Dr. Bob LaPerriere, Chairman.
• “Carvers of Carroll County” (Arkansas), by Abby Burnett and Vineta Wingate, Carroll County Historical Quarterly 53 (Sept. 2008): 22-26, 47.
• “Cemeteries,” on Wikipedia. (Includes many photographs of marble cemetery stones around the world.)
• Cemetery Monuments Made of Zinc, by Carol A. Grissom, Senior Objects Conservator, MCI, presented by the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute.
• Charles F. Earl & Co., American & Foreign Granites & Italian Statuary Monument Catalog, 339 Genesse St., Utica, New York (no date of publication)

• “Churchyard,” on Wikipedia.
• “Citation List of Leeanna Rossi’s Research Notes (regarding Gold Rush Area Stone Carvers & Companies),” compiled by Leeanna Rossi.
• City of the Silent – Cemetery Culture, by Joel GAzis-SAx
• Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, Quarries Photographic Tour
• “John W. Combs – The life story of John William Combs,” by Ruth Combs Edvalson, his Granddaughter, 2000.
• Colusa County Sandstone Quarries – the Knowles/Brownstone Quarry & the inactive McGilvray sandstone quarry photographic tour.
• “Construction Aggregate,” on Wikipedia.

• “Lucy J. Daniel (1865 - ?),” by Abby Burnett, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, updated 2011

• Davis Cemetery District, Yolo County, California.
• Design Hints For Memorial Craftsmen, published monthly at St. Cloud, Minnesota, by Dan Haslam between 1924 and 1934.  (Many of the issues of Design Hints for Memorial Craftsmen are available on this web site from 1926 through 1932.  Peggy B. Perazzo)
• “Dimension Stone,” on Wikipedia.
• “Dimension Stone – Statistics and Information,” presented by the U. S. Geological Survey.
• “Distribution in Time, Provenance, and Weathering of Gravestones in Three Northeastern Ohio Cemeteries,”Andrew Bauer, Joseph T. Hannibal, Claudia Britt Hanson, and Jesse V. Elmore, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. 102 (4), 2002, pp. 82-102.
• Eaton Studio – The F. C. Eaton, Barre, Vermont, Monumental Catalog – early 1900s  (“We take pleasure in bringing to your notice the Barre Granite Manufacturers represented in this book, each manufacturer having a page with 12 original designs….”  List of manufacturers:  Giudici Bros., J. A. Martinson; Bond & Kidder; Burke Bros. ; Eclat Granite Co. ; Littlejohn; Odgers & Milne; C. Bianchi & Sons, Abbiati & Bros.; McMillan & Son; and North Barre Granite Co.   (on the inside back cover of the book there is a sticker that reads:  “Tell ‘em you saw it in Rock Products, 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., Quarry and Monument Trade”)

• “Epitaph,” on Wikipedia
• Epitaphs (booklet in pdf), by the Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, early 1900s, presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• F. Barnicoat: High-Grade Granite Statuary and Monuments (pdf), Office and Studio, Intervale Street, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1903, 24 pp.

• Flint Granite Co. Monument Catalog, circa 1905 – Flint Granite Company, Builders of Artistic Memorials in Granite, Marble and Bronze (Monument Catalog) (PDF), circa 1905, 34 pp.
• Georgia – Special Granite Designs in the Famous Pride of Elberton Blue Granite, Design Book No. 16, 1920’s & Price List for Special Granite Designs, No. 16-H (pdf), 1920’s.  (Monument catalog and price list for Elberton Blue Granite monuments from Georgia)

• Georgia Beauties:  Catalog Number Twenty-Two (pdf), The Georgia Marble Finishing Works, Builders of Fine Monuments, Canton, Georgia (no date of publication – possibly 1940s – catalog of cemetery monuments, urns, and vases) Georgia Marble Company November 1974 Price List (pdf) (Price list of designs illustrated in Georgia Marble Finishing Works design Book No. 22.)

• “Granite,” on Wikipedia. (Includes a photograph of a granite cemetery stone.)
• The Granite Cutters’ Journal, Vol. 34, 1910, and Vol. 35, 1911 (with more to come), available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• Granite, Marble & Bronze Magazine. (Several issues of this magazine are available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• “Grave (Burial),” on Wikipedia.
• “Grave Markers,” on Wikimedia Commons (Contents: Gravestones: Columns, crosses, obelisks, grave stars; External tomb chests; Grave sculptures: Bronze grave sculptures, Church monuments, and Funerary monuments in Islamic mausoleums; Regionally specific grave markers: Grave lanterns, Gorintōs, Grave orbs, and Kopjafa; Other materials: Wooden grave markers, Metal grave markers (Iron and Bronze); Grave markers by country; and Grave markers by occupant.)
• Gravestone & Cemetery Preservation Past, Present & Future
• Gravestone Symbols
• Graves, Tombs, and Cemeteries Photographs on Flickr
• “Graveyard,” on Wikipedia. (Information and photographs of graveyards around the world are included.)
• A Handbook of Ornament: With three hundred plates, containing about three thousand illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects, by Franz Sales Mever, First American Edition, New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1920s ?, 548 pp. (Contents: “Elements of Decoration,” The Geometrical Elements, Natural Forms, Artificial Objects; “Ornament Applied to Features,” “Decorated Objects,” Vases &c., Metal Objects, Furniture, Frames, Jewelry, Heraldry.) (This book is available for reading on the Internet Archive web site.)
• Harrison Granite Company Clientele Catalog (& Monuments) (pdf), Harrison Granite Company, Established 1845, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Quarries & Works:  Barre, Vermont, January 1, 1918, 24 pp.

• “Headstone” on Wikipedia (Includes information on fieldstones, granite, marble and limestone, sandstone, slate, iron, white bronze, and wood markers.)
• Headstones of the Gold Rush Era: Sculpting Masterpieces in Marble, by Leeanna Rossi, Golden Notes, Vol. 43, Number 3, Fall 1997, Sacramento County Historical Society, Sacramento, California, 1997. (The booklet can be obtained from the Old Sacramento City Cemetery.)
• Headstones, on headstones.net.
• Historic Headstones
• Historical California Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, & Monument Dealers, on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• “History of Burial Practices,” presented on the Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.
• History of Capay Valley Cemetery District with a note on the older Cemeteries of Capay Valley, by Mark Riley, Capay, California.
• “History of Cemetery Memorial Art,” in The Monumental News Magazine, September, 1919, pp. 579-582, presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• History of Government Furnished Headstones and Markers, presented by the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Indian Diggings Cemetery and Indian Diggings Marble Quarry Area – Visit to the Indian Diggings Cemetery and Indian Diggings Marble Quarry Area in the Summer of 2003, on the Stone Quarries & Beyond web site.
• John Silva of Silva Memorials, Antioch, California – 1997 Interview
• “Kruegers of The Pfeiffer Stone Company” (Arkansas), by Wilson Powell, The Independence County Chronicle 15 (July 1974): 13 - 35.
• “Late Nineteenth Century Tombstone Iconography As Illustrated Through The Works of H. J. Wiebusch, Stone Carver, Independence County, Arkansas,” by Roberta D. Brown, The Independence County Chronicle, 25 (October 1983 – January 1984): 2-18.
• Lettering in Marble: A few plates and a few words of explanation – all bearing on the subject of lettering as it applies to the memorial trade, issued by the Vermont Marble Company, Procter, Vermont (in pdf format), presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• “Lists of Cemeteries by Country,” on Wikipedia.
• “Lost Grave Houses of the Arkansas Ozarks,” by Abby Burnett, Madison County Musings 27 (Winter 2008): 181-186.
• Maintenance of Interior Marble (pdf), by D. W. Kessler, Research Associate, National Bureau of Standards, Compliments of Carthage Marble Corporation, Carthage, Missouri, Published by National Association of Marble Dealers, 648 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio (no date of publication in the booklet – possibly early 1900s)  W. D. Carol, Sales Representative, P.O. Box 945, Columbus, Ohio.

  Maintenance of Interior Marble, Carthage Marble Corp., Carthage, Missouri

• “Marble,” on Wikipedia.
• Marble Color Plates: Imported and Domestic Catalog (pdf; 6 MB), Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, no date of publication, possibly early/mid-1900s, 50 pp.

  Title Page of “Marble Colorplates” Catalog, Vermont Marble Co.	List of Marble Color Plates in Catalog

• “Marble in America, Part 1:  The Industry,” by Eva Schwartz, in “Focal Points” on the Barbara Israel Garden Antiques web site.  (Scroll down to the article.  Part 2,  “Marble in America: Part II, Marketing & Perception,” will be available soon.)  Companies mentioned in the article include:  Vermont Marble Company; Sutherland Falls Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont; and Producers Marble Company – all of Proctor, Vermont; and Colorado Yule Marble Quarry, Marble, Colorado.
• Marble Sample Box by the Vermont Marble Company (pdf) (The below images of the marble samples, the box (below), and accompanying literature are available for viewing in pdf.) The box was produced by the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. The Vermont Marble Company was one of the largest and oldest suppliers of cemetery stones across the United States. (Presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.)
• Marble Statuary (pdf), Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vermont,no date of publication, 7 pp.  (Includes many photographs of the statuary sold by the Vermont Marble Company in addition to a list of their offices and branch finishing plants)

• The Marble-Workers’ Manual. Designed for the Use of Marble-Workers, Builders, and Owners of Houses. Containing practical information respecting marbles in general; their cutting, working, and polishing; veneering of marble; painting upon and coloring of marble; mosaics; composition and use of artificial marble, stuccos, cements, receipts, secrets, etc., etc. (1856) Translated from the French, By M. L. Booth, with an Appendix Concerning American Marbles. Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., New-York, 1856.
• Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies (back issues from Vol. 1 (1979-1980) through Vol. XXV (2008) are available on the University of Massachusetts – Special Collections & University Archives web site.  (The Archives of the Association for Gravestone Studies are housed in these archives and are available for research.)  The back issues of Markers are also available on the Internet Archive – Texts.
• “Mausoleum,” on Wikipedia.
• Medium Quincy Granite Monuments Catalog, Gray Rock Granite Company, Successors to Elkhill & Bishop (E&B), 127 Centre Street, Quincy, Massachusetts (no date of publication available – probably early 1900s)

• Memorial Stone, Information Circular 7720 (pdf), by Oliver Bowles, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1955a. 6 pp., presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site. (The excerpt below is from the “Introduction.”)

  “From the most remote periods of civilization stone has been used to perpetuate the memory of individuals or to immortalize their noble achievements. Ancient memorials ranged from simple piles of stone (cairns), or single markers, to great obelisks and pyramids or magnificent mausoleums. The Taj Mahal at Agra, India, built of white marble by Shah Jehan in memory of the Empress Mumtez Mahal, is one of the most beautiful and costly memorials ever built. It was erected between 1632 and 1650 at an estimated cost of $50,000,000 or more and is today an object of unusual interest for travelers. Other magnificent memorials both ancient and modern are to be found in many lands....”

• “Memorializing the Civil War Dead:  Modernity and Corruption under the Grant Administration” (pdf), by Bruce S. Elliott, in Markers XXVI, Association for Gravestone Studies, 2011, pp. 15-55.  (Reprinted with permission of the Association for Gravestone Studies.) 

  This article includes the historical need to mass produce the Civil War headstones rather than by individual stone carvers.  Contracts for the headstones and bases were given out to several different quarries and companies in Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Tennessee.  The need for large numbers of markers also increased the use of the sandblasting process to speed up carving the names on the stones.  Both mass production the sandblasting process caused great changes in the work of the stone carvers, which led to demands by the stone workers’ unions, such as the eight-hour work day.)

• “Metal Monuments of Greenwood Cemetery,” by Mark Culver. (Includes historical information on metal monuments.)
• Michaels Bronze Tablets Catalog, The Michaels Art Bronze Co., Inc., Covington, Kentucky, Since 1870.  (No date of publication, but the latest date shown is 1932.)

• The Millstone Industry:  A summary of research on quarries and producers in the United States, Europe and elsewhere,  by Charles D. Hockensmith, McFarland, Jun 7, 2009, 269 pp. (Portions of this book are available on Google eBook by clicking on “view sample.”)  (Chapters in this book include:  Early American Millstone Documents, Millstone Quarrying in the United States, Millstone Makers and Urban Factories, The Rise and Fall of the American Millstone Industry Producers Annual Values and Decline, Foreign Millstones Imported to America, The Millstone Quarrying Industry Outside the United States, Artificial Millstones, Tools Used in Making and Sharpening Millstones, Working Conditions and Hazards in the Millstone Industry, and Conclusion.)

  (Description from Google Books)  “Since prehistoric times, the process of cutting rock to make millstones has been one of the most important industries in the world.  The earliest rotary millstones, known as querns, were turned by human power.  Later, larger millstones were manufactured that required animal, water, or wind power to turn them.  These larger millstones required less human effort and ground greater quantities of grain, but also required regular maintenance and replacement.  As a result, millstone quarries increased greatly in number and size in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the largest quarry sites extending as far as nearly a half-mile square to about 12 square miles.  The first part of this book compiles information on the millstone industry in the United States, which dates between the mid-1600s and the mid-1900s. Primarily based on archival research and brief accounts published in geological and historical volumes, it focuses on conglomerate, granite, flint, quartzite, gneiss, and sandstone quarries in different regions and states.  The second part focuses on the millstone quarrying industry in Europe and other areas. Of the European millstone industry, the quarries of France, Germany, and Great Britain are most extensively documented, although the quarries of Albania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland are also covered. The extensive bibliography provides scholars with many sources for future research.  The book includes 84 photographs, 16 tables, and a helpful glossary of specialized and technical terms.”

• Modern Memorial Art Memorial Catalog, Some Examples Cut in Stony Creek, Milford Pink and Victoria White Granites (pdf), The Dodds Granite Company, Main Office:  Milford, Massachusetts, Quarries & Plants:  Milford, Massachusetts; Stony Creek, Connecticut; Keene, New Hampshire, New York City Office.
• Montgomery Ward & Co. Monuments, Tombstones and Markers Catalog, 1929 (in pdf), presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• The Monument and Cemetery Review (magazine) (pdf; 15+ MB): The Exponent of Art in the Monument Field, October, 1926, Vol. XII, No. 2.
• The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1892 – The Monumental News Magazine – An index of the 1892 issues of The Monumental News is available. The following 1892 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format: January 1892, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January Index) — February 1892, Vol. 4, No. 2 (February Index) — March 1892, Vol. 4, No. 3 (March Index) — April 1892, Vol. 4, No. 4 (April Index) — May 1892, Vol. 4, No. 5 (May Index) — June 1892, Vol. 4, No. 6 (June Index) — July 1892, Vol. 4, No. 7 (July Index) — August 1892, Vol. 4, No. 8 (August Index) — September 1892, Vol. 4, No. 9 (September Index) — October 1892, Vol. 4, No. 10 (October Index) — November 1892, Vol. 4, No. 11 (November Index) — December 1892, Vol. 4, No. 12 (December Index). (The preceding PDF files are all about 7+ MB.)

    The following thumbnail images are of the “Content” pages for each individual issue for 1892 of The Monumental News Magazine. (Click on the links in the paragraph above to access the full issues in PDF. Peggy B. Perazzo)

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  • 1893 – The Monumental News Magazine – The following 1893 issues of the of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format: January 1893, Vol. 5, No. 1 — February 1893, Vol. 5, No. 2 — March 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 3 — April 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 4 — May 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 5 — June 1893, Vol. 6 (5), No. 6 — July 1893, Vol. 5, No. 7 — August 1893, Vol. 5, No. 8 — September 1893, Vol. 5, No. 9 — October 1893, Vol. 5, No. 10 — November 1893, Vol. 5, No. 11 — December 1893, Vol. 5, No. 12. (The preceding files are from 8 to 9+ MB. Please note that the volume numbers for the above issues start at Vol. 5, change to Vol. 6 for 4 issues, and then go back to Vol. 5.)

    The following thumbnail images are of the “Content” pages for each individual issue for 1893 of The Monumental News Magazine. (Click on the links in the paragraph above to access the full issues in PDF. Peggy B. Perazzo)

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    Jan. 18941894 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1894 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format: January 1894, Vol. 6, No. 1 — February 1894, Vol. 6, No. 2 — March 1894, Vol. 6, No. 3 — April 1894, Vol. 6, No. 4 — May 1894, Vol. 6, No. 5 — June 1894, Vol. 6, No. 6 — July 1894, Vol. 6, No. 7 — August 1894, Vol. 6, No. 8 — September 1894, Vol. 6, No. 9 — October 1894, Vol. 6, No. 10 — November 1894, Vol. 6, No. 11 — and December 1894, Vol. 6, No. 12. (The preceding files are about 11 MB or less. Only the January issue contains a “Contents” section.)
  • 1895 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1895 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format: January 1895, Vol. 7, No. 1 — February 1895, Vol. 7, No. 2 — March 1895, Vol. 7, No. 3 — April 1895, Vol. 7, No. 4 — May 1895, Vol. 7, No. 5 — June 1895, Vol. 7, No. 6 — July 1895, Vol. 7, No. 7 — August 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8 — September 1895, Vol. 7, No. 9 — October 1895, Vol. 7, No. 10 — November 1895, Vol. 7, No. 11 — and December 1895, Vol. 7, No. 12. (The preceding files are about 19 MB or less.)

    The following thumbnail images are of the “Content” pages for each individual issue for 1895 of The Monumental News Magazine. Only the issues for January & April through December contain a “Contents” section.(Click on the links in the paragraph above to access the full issues in PDF. Peggy B. Perazzo)

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  • 1896 – The Monumental News Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Monumental Art Journal – The following 1896 issues of The Monumental News magazines are available in PDF format: January 1896, Vol. 8, No. 1 (18+ MB) — February 1896, Vol. 8, No. 2 (12+ MB) — March 1896, Vol. 8, No. 3 (12+ MB) — April 1896, Vol. 8, No. 4 (11+ MB) — May 1896, Vol. 8, No. 5 (12+ MB) — June 1896, Vol. 8, No. 6 (12+ MB) — July 1896, Vol. 8, No. 7 (12+ MB) — August 1896, Vol. 8, No. 8 (12+ MB) — September 1896, Vol. 8, No. 9 (11+ MB) — October 1896, Vol. 8, No. 10 (12+ MB) — November 1896, Vol. 8, No. 11 (11+ MB) — December 1896, Vol. 8, No. 12 (11+ MB).

    The following thumbnail images are of the “Content” pages for each individual issue for 1896 of The Monumental News Magazine. (Click on the links in the paragraph above to access the full issues in PDF.)

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• Monument Trade Builder, March-April, 1918, published by Barclay Brothers, Barre, Vermont, 16 pp.  (regarding monument construction and production)

• Monuments .. For The Ages, Miller Monuments, Incorporated, Plymouth & Elkhart, Indiana, No date of publication.

• Monuments, Memorials & Tombstones, in the “Cemeteries & Funeral Homes” section of Cyndi’s List
• The Monumental Bronze Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut, Catalog B (pdf), presented by the Association for Gravestone Studies.
• Mortuary Trade Journals, presented by Jeremy W. Pye, Student of Mortuary Archeology and Funeral Behaviors.
• “Motor Truck in the Monument Business: What Retail Monument Dealers Think of the Efficiency of Motor Transportation for Memorial Work,” article in Granite Marble & Bronze, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, January 1921, pp. 32-33d, presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• “My Soul From Out This Shadow Shall Be Lifted Nevermore; Nick Miller, Tombstone Carver, 1846 – 1898,” by Abby Burnett, Carroll County Historical Quarterly 53 (June 2008): 17-22.
• “Nick Miller: Tombstone Carver Lies in Unmarked Grave,” by Abby Burnett, The Ozarks Mountaineer 57 (March/April 2009): 52-55.

• “Nick Miller (1846 – 1898),” by Abby Burnett, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, updated 2009

• The New England Granite Works Catalog (pdf) Established in 1845, Chartered 1877  (no date of publication shown)  489 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York; General Office, Westerly, Rhode Island; Quarries and Works:  Westerly, Rhode Island, and Concord, New Hampshire.
• “‘No Pompous Marble To Thy Name We Raise’: A.H. Morley and Family, Fayetteville Tombstone Carvers,” by Abby Burnett, Flashback, Journal of the Washington County Historical Society 58 (Fall 2008): 115-145.
• Oglesby Blue Granite Mausoleum Catalog, Elberton, Georgia, 1937 (pdf)
• Old Cemeteries of San Joaquin County (pdf), Vol. I, compiled by members of the San Joaquin County Genealogical Society, Stockton, California.
• Old City Cemetery web site where you can purchase Leeanna Rossi’s booklet: Headstones of the Gold Rush Era: Sculpting Masterpieces in Marble, Golden Notes Vol. 43, No. 3, Fall 1997, Sacramento County Historical Society. (This book is available at the Old City Cemetery in Sacramento web site. If you would like to call and order a copy, their address and phone number is: Old City Cemetery Committee, Inc., 1000 Broadway, Sacramento, CA 95818, (916) 448-0811.
• Outlines of Historic Ornament, Translated from the Germany, Edited by Gilbert R. Redgrave, London: Chapman and Hall, 1884, 170 pp. (Section I. “Elementary Ornament” Northern and Central Europe & Northern and Central America; Section II. “Pre-Christian Ornament” The Egyptian Style, The Assyrio-Persian Style, The Indo-Chinese Style, The Greek Style, The Etruscan Style, and The Roman Style; Section III. “Early Christian Ornament” The Romano-Christian Style, The Byzantine Style; Section IV. “Mohammedan Ornament” The Arabian Style and The Arabian Style in Spain, Sicily, Egypt, Persia, India, and Turkey; Section V. “Medieval Ornament” The Romanesque Style, The Romanesque Style in Italy, France, England, Ireland, Germany, and Austria; The Gothic Style, The Gothic Style in France, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Italy; Section VI. “Modern Ornament” The Style of the Renaissance and Baroque and Rococo Style.) (This book is available for reading on the Internet Archive web site.)
• Penryn, Placer County, Granite Quarry Photographic Tour.
• Personality In Memorials, Marker Catalog No. 106, Comolli Granite Co., Elberton, Georgia (no date of publication)

• “Pneumatic Tools: Inventors,” by Mary Bellis, About.com Guide.
• A Portfolio of Architectural Memorial Designs brochure (pdf), presented by Kenerson Design Studio, Barre, Vermont, no date of publication.  (This brochure displays cemetery monuments.)

• Producers’ Marble Company’s Illustrated Catalogs of 1886, ’87 and ’89 – This Book Contains Eighty-four Choice Designs Selected from the Late Producers’ Marble Company’s Illustrated Catalogs of 1886, ’87 and ’89, D. H. Dickinag (?), Water Street, Chicago, Illinois, June, 1889.

• Products of Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Stone Catalog, Distributors of Marble – Stone, New York, circa 1890’s through 1915, 90 pp.

  Products of Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Stone Catalog, circa 1915

• “Quarry,” (definition, description, and photographs) on Wikipedia.
• Raymond / Knowles Granite – Photographic tour of the area and some of its quarries.
• “Reflections of Change: Death and Cemeteries in the Boonslick Region of Missouri,” Maryellen Harshbarger McVicker
• Retail Dealers Guide: A Reference Book for Placing Orders for Monumental Work and Rough Stock 1914 (1915, 1916, 1917, & 1918), A. M. Hunt Co., Boston, Mass.  (Vols. 7-11 in file:  1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, & 1918 are available in one file on Google Books)
• Rocklin, Placer County, Granite Quarry Photographic Tour.
• “‘San Francisco Pioneer Cemeteries’: Where the Dead Live,” San Francisco Chronicle online edition, by Regan McMahon, Thursday, October 29, 2009.
• Santa Cruz County Marble Quarries – Photographic Tours (4 listed at the end of the menu)
• “Sculptors, Monument Companies, and Iron Works,” compiled by Leeanna Rossi.
• Sears, Roebuck & Co. – “History of the Sears Catalog” section of the Sears Archives web site.
• “Slate,” on Wikipedia. (Includes photographs of slate cemetery stones.)
• Some Stone Carvers & Monument Companies That Produced the Yolo County Stones in the Late 1800’s to early 1900’s (Brochure by Peggy B. Perazzo in pdf)
• Sources of Memorial Ornamentation (pdf), by Henry Powell Hopkins, A.M., B.Arch., A.I.A., Vermont Marble Company, Proctor, Vermont, printed by the Barta Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1924, 44 pp., presented on this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• Stone: An Illustrated Magazine (Many issues of this old magazine from 1888 through (eventually) 1922 are available on Google Books in their Full View Books in which you can view images of the pages. You can find a list and links to the books in the list of all editions of Stone magazine listed on Google Books.
• The Stone Cutters’ Journal, Vols. 34-36, 1919 and 37-39, 1922 (with more to come) – available on Google Books – Full View Books.
• The Stone Industries: Dimension Stone, Crushed Stone, Geology, Technology, Distribution, Utilization, by Oliver Bowles, Supervising Engineer, Building Materials Section, United States Bureau of Mines, 2nd ed., New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1939. (This book is available on the Internet Archive.)
• Stories in Stone: A Field Guide To Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography, by Douglas Keister, Photographs by Douglas Keister, Gibbs Smith, 2004ISBN158685321X, 9781586853211288 (Book).
• The Structural and Industrial Materials of California, Lewis E. Aubury, State Mineralogist, California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, 1906. (Available on Google Books.)
• Symbols of Service Monumental Catalog & Price List, Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vermont, 1919. (A few of the images from the booklet are shown below.)

• “Teaching with Tombstones: Geology at the Cemetery,” (pdf) by Joseph T. Hannibal, 2007, in N. R. Shaffer and D. A. DeChurch, eds., Proceedings of the 40th Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals, May 2-7, 2004, Bloomington, Indiana:  Indiana Geological Survey Occasional Paper 67, pp. 82-88.
• “Timeline of Transportation Technology,” on Wikipedia.
• “Tomb,” on Wikipedia. (Photographs of tombs are presented along with historical references.)
• “Tombstone Carvers of Newton County” (Arkansas), by Abby Burnett, The Newton County Homestead, Journal of the Newton County Historical Society (2009): 8-11.
• “Tombstone Epitaphs, The,” on Wikipedia.
• “Tombstone (Manufacturing),” on Wikipedia.
• Tombstones, and the Men Who Created Them, presentation by Mary-ellen Jones, Nov. 26, 1996, from the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society newsletter.
• A Tract Upon Tomb-Stones; Or, Suggestions for the Consideration of Persons Intending To Set Up That Kind of Monument to the Memory of Deceased Friends, by Francis Edward Paget, 3rd ed., J. Masters, Publisher, 1853, 23 pp. (Available on Google Full View Books)
• “Types of Cemetery Markers,” article by Marie Louise, presented on ehow.com.
• “Types of Cemetery Stones,” article by Dawn Fenske, presented on ehow.com.
• “Types of the Year’s Best Cemetery Monuments (pdf) (1921)  Many Distinctive Types:  Development of Tablet and Cross Forms, in The Monumental News, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, January 1921, pp. 21-31.
• Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Lasting Memorials of Artistic Beauty, Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920’s.  (Note, this is a large document.)
  • Monuments of Enduring Beauty (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s.
  • Price List of Marble and Granite Monuments in Design Book No. 108 (pdf), Universal Monument Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1920s.
• “Various Aspects of the San Francisco Disaster (Earthquake)” in the Monumental News Magazine, August 1906, on Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• Proctor, Vermont – Vermont Marble Company Dealer’s Sales Portfolio:  Information on Designs and Other Illustrations (pdf), October 1940. Below are a few of the photographs included in this dealer’s sales portfolio binder, which is available at the link above. Peggy B. Perazzo

• A Visit to the Slate Quarries of Angers (France), Scientific American - Supplement No. 974, Munn & Co., New York, 1894, on the Stone Quarries & Beyond web site.
• W. A. Hambleton Granite Monuments & Statuary Catalog – At Wholesale, Book No. 10 (pdf), American & Foreign, Mansfield, Ohio; Barre, Vermont; Aberdeen, Scotland.
• “White Bronze Monuments,” by Barbara Rotundo, on the Association For Gravestone Studies web site.
• “H. J. Wiebusch, Batesville, Arkansas: A Nineteenth Century Stonecarver,” by Roberta D. Brown, Arkansas Historical Quarterly 42 (Autumn 1983): 197-206.
• Woodmen of the World Grave Markers
• Yolo County Cemeteries on the Yolo County CAGenWeb Project web site.
• Yolo County Cemeteries: Past & Present, presented on the Yolo County CAGenWeb Project web site.
• Yolo County Stone Industry, etc., on the Stone Quarries & Beyond web site.
• Yolo County Stone Industry, etc., section, on the Stone Quarries & Beyond web site.
  • Yolo County Stone Quarries (The “Devils Gate” entries present photographs of the area where the quarry was once located and buildings and cemetery stones, etc., constructed of Devil’s Gate / Cache Creek / Winters Sandstone.)
• Yolo County Stone Quarries (The “Devils Gate” entries present photographs of the area where the quarry was once located and buildings and cemetery stones, etc., constructed of Devil’s Gate / Cache Creek / Winters Sandstone.
• Zinc Markers: A site dedicated to white bronze monuments.

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