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By Dr. David Saja, Curator of Mineralogy
WELLINGTON DIMENSION STONE
COLLECTION at the
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY:
A Rare Example Of A Well-documented Collection Of 20th Century Dimension Stones
William R. and Anne J. Cook
Endowed Chair of Mineralogy
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Robert E. Wellington engineer and salesman for the Albermar Associates of Cleveland, Ohio. Records cover a two-decade period from 1967 to 1987 In 1988, Collection and Records Donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Representative of the Alberene Stone Company, and several other major marble and granite companies across the United States.
Mr. Wellington
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Stone Companies Represented
• Georgia Marble, • Green Mountain Marble, • Tennessee Marble, • Alabama Limestone, • Carthage Marble Corp., Carthage, Missouri
• Georgia Granite Co., • Vermont Structural Slate Co., • The Structural Slate Co., PEN ARGYL, PENNSYLVANIA
. . . . among others
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Quarry Localities
GA AL
MO
TN
PA
VT
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The Collection
1137 total specimens (including duplicates) 533 Cataloged
Wellington Dimension Stone Collection
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New Storage Cabinet
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Specimen Labels
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Specimen Size • 3x5 in. (7.5 x 12.5 cm) • 12x12 in. (30 x 30 cm) • Book Specimens
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Specimen Finish • Polished • Flame Etched
“thermal” • Honed • Rough Cut/Split
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Specimen “Rock” Types • Diabase • Anorthosite • Gabbro • Phyllite • Quartzite • Serpentine • Limestone • Travertine • Breccia • Schists
1. Granite 2. Slate 3. Marble
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Documentation
1. Specimen Name and Manufacturer
2. Specimen Catalogs 3. Sales Brochures 4. Blueprints 5. Sales Invoices & Letters
of Communication
X
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2. Specimen Catalog
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Marble of the Month catalogs
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3. Sales Brochures
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Records of buildings and the stone used
JOB: Municipal Building LOCATION: Port Huron, MI MATERIAL: Cherokee/Textured
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Historic Pictures
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Methods
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Installation methods
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4. Blueprints
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5. Sales Records
18 banker boxes containing twenty
years (1967 to 1987) of records
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Invoices and Correspondences
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Candoro Marble Co. Knoxville, Tennessee
Sterling Gray Marble Knoxville, Tennessee
Monsanto Co. Nitro, W. Virginia
Locker Room
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Account Locations
WV
TX
MI
IL IN OH PA
KY
DE
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Account Types
• Building Exteriors • Lobbies • Offices • Bathrooms • Locker Rooms • Countertops
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Accounts
• churches • museums • hospitals • fire stations • city halls • universities • high schools • restaurants • cemeteries • corporate headquarters
e.g. Goodyear Tire Procter & Gamble
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www.goodyear.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Cincinnati
Procter & Gamble Cincinnati, OH
Goodyear Akron, OH
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Smithsonian Institution • 2352 individual specimens • 2032 are domestic stone from 47 states • 320 are from 16 foreign countries
http://www.nist.gov/el/building_materials/stonewall.cfm
In 1948, it was used to make a “TEST WALL” at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) site in Washington D.C.
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Sedgwick Museum the Earth Sciences Department at Cambridge, UK
John Watson Building Stone Collection 2,500 specimens, largely from Great Britain Cataloged in 1911 http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/th
rough_the_sandglass/2009/01/index.html
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Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Corsi Collection
Early 19th century collection made by Roman lawyer Faustino Corsi
“900 stones” in the collection
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/corsi/contactus
Published a catalog in 1825
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Open soon for access! The Wellington
Dimension Stone Collection
at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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All samples are imaged
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Database includes both trade and geologic names
e.g. Marble Verde = Serpentine
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Document sorting
and scanning is still in progress.
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