This photograph was taken of Stone five years or so after he became Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE), then one of the oldest and largest employee unions in the country. Under Stone's leadership, the BLE embraced capitalism like no other union of the era, building the first union-owned skyscraper in the United States in 1910 and then founding the first union-owned bank in 1920. Stone capped his career by spearheading the building of the 21-story Engineers Bank Building--now known as the Standard Building. It opened in 1925, one month after Stone's sudden and untimely death from kidney disease. | Date: Ca. 1908 | Source: Library of Congress photograph collectionDownload Original File
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Library of Congress photograph collection
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Ca. 1908
"Warren Sanford Stone (1860-1925), ca. 1908" appears in: Standard Building
