The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently completed the full processing of the
Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company Office Records. The collection consists of project drawings, photographs, sales specimens, correspondence, ledgers and indices. Highlights include drawings for the Josie Arlington tomb in Metairie Cemetery, the plaster model for the McCarthy Square Victory Arch, and a series of historic tomb images commissioned by architect Charles L. Lawhon of photographer Louis T. Fritch.
This and other SEAA finding aids may be found online
here.
Image above: “Albert Weiblen.” In W.K. Patrick & Assoc.
Club Men of Louisiana in Caricature. East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1917. The
Louisiana Research Collection, Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries.
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