Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Family and professional records of the prominent Chicago funeral home owner and Civil War enthusiast Ernest Augusta Griffin.The collection is divided into seven series: Family Papers, Funeral Home Papers, Civil War Papers, Photographs, Media, Artifacts, and Scrapbooks. Most of the collection consists of paper documents and photographs pertaining to Ernest A. Griffin and his immediate family- Alyce, Dawn, and Pearl. Although the documents and photographs are organized separately,...