Modern monuments, tablets and sarcophagi ..
A 1907 trade catalogue of granite memorials issued by Charles Henry Gall in Chicago for monument dealers and cemetery buyers to order from by stock number. The plates are retouched photographs of sarcophagi, die blocks and tablets standing on lawns before soft brushed treelines, each carrying a stock number, a raised surname in period letterforms, and carved palmette, scroll or cross panels above rock-faced bases \u2014 useful for incised lettering models, ornament borders, and flattened photographic backdrops.
