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chicagosilver Posts: 227 |
posted 01-08-2011 03:41 PM
  
On September 1, 1925, a group of Kalo silversmiths presented a lobed 19" oval tray to founder Clara Welles to commemorate the Kalo Shop's twenty-fifth anniversary. They engraved their signatures on the back: "From / The Kalo Shop / Employees While many of these (Berg, Mhyre, Olsson, Pedersen, Bower) are familiar to Arts & Crafts scholars, others have remained somewhat mysterious. One of the more interesting is Bjarne Axness. He's in the well-known group photo of Kalo "silversmiths and students and yard man" taken at the shop's Park Ridge workshop around 1910. Here's a later photo of him taken behind the Kalo Shop at 152 E. Ontario St. in 1929: Kalo silversmiths were encouraged to work at home or in the shop after hours on their own projects. Below is a Kalo-like footed bowl done by Axness in 1932. Note the strange chased design of ants, a stump, a haystack, and a crown: IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-08-2011 07:52 PM
If this information is just too redundant, please let me know. Anyway, according to Bjarne Olaf Axness's U.S. World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942, he was born in Steinjar, Norway on 22 December 1887. At that time, his employer was Kalo Shop 222 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Ill, and his place of employment was 226 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, Ill. Hand scrawled diagonally across his card is the notation deceased 8-3-1943. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 01-08-2011).] IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 03-09-2011 11:07 AM
Just a very little bit of John H Cook's vital records type information and etc. John Holmes Cook was born in 1887 in San Francisco, California and died in 1966 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1910 he was living in Concord, Massachusetts and working as a silversmith in a silverware factory. His draft registrations show that he was working for Kalo shops as a silversmith in 1917 and not currently employed in 1942. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 03-14-2011 01:30 PM
quote: Here is just a little information about William Ketter that may apply: He was born in Germany in about 1865 and immigrated in 1870 to the U S with his family through the Port of Baltimore from Rhemprewing. In 1890 he married Theresa Trebes. William's occupations as given in the Chicago census's from 1900 to 1930 were sporting goods manufacturer, leather worker, and leather trunk maker. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 03-14-2011).] IP: Logged |
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