Mason Monogram Co. Tax Records

With the address for his office building found, and adjusting my search criteria a little bit I found proof of life after the Pan-American Exhibit for Mason Monogram Company!

Via Archive.org I found a text file prepared by the University of Illinois Library, digitized in 2015, for (drum roll please)

and "exhibiting the financial transactions and the condition of the finances of the State, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1903."

I'm grateful for the text file! Found a scan of the book later. It was significantly less searchable. I looked for tax records a few times before. Perhaps they'd lead me to an office address. Came up with nothing.

On page 425, almost towards the bottom, is Mason Monogram who paid $15.00 whole USD. Using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI inflation calculator, the earliest I can go back is 1913. That's fine for a blog post. Plugging in $15 paid let's-just-say March 1st, 1913 (after ratification of the 16th Amendment on February 3rd, 1913. Cool- cool- less than the shortest month of the year to get everything together.) indicates a buying power of $497.14 in September 2025!

Highlighted entry shows $15 to the State of NY

A small piece of the puzzle but I'll take it.