![]() It is leather bound, abot 6" by 11" and contains many photographs of personnel, Board Members, facility, equipment, transportion, etc. The information concerns the period 1893 - 1904 andfollows the corprate philosophy, purpose, structure, strategies, etc. I have a rare historical book on the corporate history of the Chicago Portrait Company, dated 1905.The portrait is inside a unique bubble glass frame. ![]() My gr.father was born in 1846 and died in 1926. On the other side is a portrait of an old man holding a sheep. I too have an oval glassed portrait of my grandfather.I believe the date to be in the 1920's somewhere.$7.90 was a big price in the 1920's. No date is on the frames but they say Chicago Portrait Company- frame price $7.90. Both frames have bubble glass and metal-like cathedral frames. I just located two pictures - one of my grandparents, the other, my father when he was about 3 years old.Written on the back with a crayon 2/3-2904. Today my mother gave me a portrait of her grand mother and father, Jacob and Kathern Braun, on the back stamped "CATHEDRAL DESIGN Design Patented JMade and sold by CHICAGO PORTRAIT COMPANY" Looks like it was in a bubble glass frame.The company would mount the photos in large frames and return them to the customers. He would travel around the country, taking photographs of people, and mailing the film to the Chicago Portrait Company. My Uncle Grant reportedly worked for the Chicago Portrait Company in the 1930s.One final note at the bottom, on the back of the portrait it also has E H Baese (art director). ![]() The gold plate on the back of portrait says this is an Heirloom portrait then it has the lady's name, and at the bottom it says Gothic Design Patent No 65301.
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