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200th Anniversary Committee, Minutes, 1923-1924
Description:
This volume contains the minutes of the 200th Anniversary Committee. The Committee was formed to plan the celebration held on September 25th 1924 honouring the 200th anniversary of the Carpenters' Company founding in 1724. It includes the minutes of…
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1923/1924
Act of Incorporation and By-Laws and Miscellany, including Carpenters' Company Minutes, 1763-1768
Description:
Includes Minutes, Feb. 15, 1763 - April 18, 1768
Date:
1763-1768
Bedford, Gunning
Description:
Gunning Bedford was an important master builder who remained active in the building trades throughout his life, although few buildings can firmly be attributed to him. The son of Gunning and Mary Bedford of New Castle (DE), he appears in Philadelphia…
Member number:
34*
Birth date:
1/1/1720
Committee on Old Hall, Minutes, 1856-1857
Description:
This volume contains the minutes from the Carpenters' Company Committee on Old Hall. This Committee was formed for the purpose of renovating and reoccupying Carpenters' Hall by the Carpenters' Company. The Company had met in New Hall since 1791 and…
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1856/1857
Item type:
Text
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Painted Brown. 4 of a set of 4.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Framed Print. "Christ in the Carpenter's Shop"
Description:
Framed Print titled: "Christ in the Carpenter's Shop" Reproduction "ONE OF FOUR TUDOR WALL PAINTINGS FROM THE MIDDLE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN CARPENTERS' HALL LONDON. In the centre Joseph is trimming a beam, whilst on the right is the Virgin Mary and the…
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Framed Print
Friendship Carpenters' Company Minutes
Description:
Also contains Carpenters' Company Ledger, 22 Feb 1769 to 16 Jan 1823, From the inventory description: hz; on spine, in manuscript: "Minutes/ of the / Friendship / Carpenters / Company / 1769" Friendship Carpenters' Company, Company Minutes, 29 Jan…
Date:
1770-1775
Hand drill with wood handle
Description:
metal hand drill with wooden handle and drill size approx. 2"
Item type:
metal hand drill
Large wooden press
Description:
large wooden press with two hand screws
Item type:
wooden press
Ledger, 1918-1920
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1918/1920
Item type:
Text
Mahogany chest of drawers.
Description:
Mahogany four-drawer chest of drawers. French bracket feet, brass hardware, bowed front. Key hole in center of each drawer
Date:
c. 1790
Item type:
chest of drawers
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1806-1812
Date:
1806-1812
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1812-1823
Description:
Carpenters' Company, Managing Committee, Fair Minutes, 22 Jan 1812 to 15 Jan 1823.
Date:
1812/1823
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1838-1852
Description:
Carpenters' Company, Managing Committee, Minutes, 17 Jan 1838 to 29 Dec 1852.
Date:
1838-1852
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1891-1905
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1891/1905
Item type:
Text
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1905-1921
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1905/1921
Item type:
Text
Managing Committee, Minutes, 1921-1935
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1921/1935
Item type:
Text
Minutes, 1769-1781
Description:
Carpenters' Company minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings, 1 Feb 1769 to 15 Oct 1781 with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear; there is a gap in the minutes from 26 Apr 1776 to 23 Oct 1778.
Date:
1769-1781
Minutes, 1782-1788
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters' Company, minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings, 21 Jan 1782 to 21 Apr 1788 {with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear}
Date:
1782-1788
Minutes, 1788-1791
Description:
Carpenters' Company minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages, 18 April 1791 to 20 January 1794.
Date:
1788-1791
Minutes, 1791-1792
Description:
Carpenters' Company, [Managing] Committee, Minutes, 20 Jan 1791 to 14 Jan 1792.
Date:
1791-1792
Minutes, 1791-1794
Description:
Carpenters' Company minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings, 18 April 1791 to 20 January 1794 {with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear}.
Date:
1791-1794
Minutes, 1792-1795
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters' Company, [Managing] Committee, Minutes, 16 Jan 1792 to 24 June 1795 {note: the minutes of a few meetings in item 4 duplicate some of these in more finished form; these in 5b are rougher in form, and are perhaps…
Date:
1792-1795
Minutes, 1794-1798
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters' Company, minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings, 21 Apr 1794 to 15 Jan 1798 {with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear for fines, entry fees, quarterages, arrearages, price…
Date:
1794-1798
Minutes, 1795-1801
Description:
Carpenters' Company, [Managing] Committee, Minutes, 1 Jul 1795 to 14 Jan 1801.
Date:
1795-1801
Minutes, 1798-1802
Description:
Carpenters' Company minutes of quarterly. annual, and special meetings, 16 April 1798 to 18 January 1802 {with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear}.
Date:
1798-1802
Minutes, 1801-1806
Description:
Carpenters' Company, [Managing] Committee, Minutes, 21 Jan 1801 to 15 Jan 1806.
Date:
1801-1806
Minutes, 1802-1804
Description:
From inventory description: [sm; on spine: "THE / CARPENTERS / COMPANY / MINUTES 1802-1813"] Carpenters' Company Minutes (Quarterly and Annual Meetings), 19 Apr 1802 to 13 May 1804; also List of Members with fines and arrearages (cf Warden's Book),…
Date:
1802-1804
Minutes, 1804-1825
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters' Company Minutes (Quarterly and Annual Meetings), 16 Jan 1804 to 17 Oct 1825; also: Rules and Regulations for meetings, adopted 17 Apr 1809.
Date:
1804-1825
Minutes, 1826-1857
Description:
Carpenters' Company Minutes (Quarterly and Annual Meetings), 16 Jan 1826 to 20 July 1857.
Date:
1826-1857
Minutes, 1857-1885
Description:
Carpenters' Company annual, quarterly and special meeting minutes from 1857 to 1885. They include the Warden's list of members' attendance, arrearages, and Company receipts. The minutes begin reoccupation of Carpenters' Hall after meeting in New Hall…
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1857/1885
Item type:
Text
Minutes, 1886-1911
Description:
This volume contains the general minutes of the Carpenters Company from their Annual, Quarterly and Special Meetings. It includes members' attendance and arrearages. It covers the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the…
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1886/1911
Item type:
Text
Minutes, 1943-1968
Description:
This volume contains the general minutes of the Carpenters' Company Annual, Quarterly and Special minutes. It also includes members' attendance and arrearages. It covers the years 1943 to 1968.
Author:
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
Date:
1943/1968
Item type:
Text
Oil on canvas portrait of Joseph Worrell
Description:
Oil on canvas, portrait of Joseph Worrell (c. 1769-1840) and attributed to artist Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842). Worrell was a house carpenter, or builder, who was elected President of the Carpenters' Company, Philadelphia in 1821. This portrait was…
Date:
1821 (probably circa)
Item type:
portrait
Oil on canvas portrait of Mrs. Zachariah Howell
Description:
One of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Howell, by Robert Street, Philadelphia, 1834. Both half length, seated, painted to face one another. Elizabeth is depicted with a lace cap and fichu with orange-colored stone pendant fastening.…
Author:
Robert Street
Date:
1834
Item type:
portrait
Oil on canvas portrait of Zachariah Howell
Description:
One of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Howell, by Robert Street, Philadelphia, 1834. Both half length, seated, painted to face one another. Mr. Howell holds architectural drawings in his hands. See CCCCP-044.
Date:
1834
Item type:
portrait
Peters, Evan
Description:
Evan Peters was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of the earliest surviving records of the 1760s. He first appears in the Company records early in 1770, the same year he made a pump for The Company's lot. (Making…
Member number:
65*
Date elected:
1/9/1763
Printed Price book, 1786
Description:
Price book of Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia., From inventory description: "[Sm; no cover or spine inscription; in case.] Carpenters Company, Rules for Measuring and Valuing House-Carpenters Work [Philadelphia, 1786].…
Date:
1786
Printed price Book, 1805
Date:
1805
Printed Price Book, 1852, annotated
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters' Company, Rules and Regulations for Measuring and Valuing Carpenters' Work, As revised and Adopted by the Company (Philadelphia, 1852), printed, with inscribed prices, additional items, ink sketches; volume of…
Date:
1852
Rental Ledger, 1807-1839
Description:
Carpenters' Company, Account Book, Ledger for Rental Receipts from other Societies, 15 Jan 1807 to 14 Jan 1839; also: [Managing] Committee, Fair Minutes 24 Jan to 5 Feb 1794; also: Treasurer's Journal, 24 Jan to 5 Feb 1794, Jan to 4 Dec 1806.
Date:
1807-1839
Roberts, William
Description:
William Roberts was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of the earliest surviving records; he was first present at a Company meeting in 1768. Roberts was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan,…
Member number:
40*
Sackback Windsor armchair
Description:
Spindle armchair with shaped arm rests terminating in knuckled hand grips. shield-shaped plank seat, vase turned and splayed legs with bobbin turned stretchers. 1 of 7.
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Author:
Joseph Henzey
Date:
1773
Item type:
chair
Samuel Jones Valuation Accounts, 1784-1785
Description:
From inventory description: [sm; on cover: "THE CARPENTERS COMPANY / SAMUEL JONES / BOOK OF DEMENTTIONS / OF CARPENTERS WORK / NO.2 / 1784"] Samuel Jones, Itemized Valuations--under Carpenters' Company rules-- for various Buildings, Jan 1784 to 26…
Date:
1784-1785
Smith, Robert
Description:
Characterized as "among the most important and skilled archiect-builders in colonial America" by his biographer Charles Peterson, the chief Philadelphia claimant for the title of America's first architect is the master builder Robert Smith who was…
Member number:
29
Birth date:
1/14/1722
The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Instituted 1724.
Author:
Brown, Henry Armitt
Date:
1887
Volume: Price Book Committee, Minutes, 1786-1791
Description:
From inventory description: Carpenters Company, Committee of Prices, Minutes, 23 Oct 1786 to 5 Feb 1791.
Date:
1786-1791
Wooden box made from Washington's mantel
Description:
James Stewart (elected 1833; deceased 1856) was hired to demolish the house at 6th and Market street used by George Washington as the first White House. 524-30 Market Street. An inscription inside the lid states that the wood used for this box came…
Date:
c.1845
Item type:
wooden Washington Box
Wooden gavel
Description:
Varnished light wood gavel. Hand printed on the paper which is wrapped around the handle is the following inscription: "THIS GAVEL PRESENTED TO THE CARPENTERS' COMPANY BY JOSEPH JONES APRIL 1894 THE HEAD FROM A TREE BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND BY ELISABETH…
Item type:
W. Penn gavel