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Author: Vandergrift, Margaret
Date: 1883

Author: Carey, Rosa N.
Date: 1888

Author: Carey, Rosa N.
Date: 1881

Author: Eggleston, Edward
Date: 1884

Author: Robie, Virginia
Date: 1916

Author: May, Sophie
Date: 1877

Author: Tautphoeus, Baroness
Date: 1880

Author: Eckstein, Ernest.
Date: 1882

Author: Eckstein, Ernest.
Date: 1882

Description: Rabbet plane; Beechwood. Manufactured by Arrow-Mammett Manufacturing, Middletown, CT.
Date: c. 1850
Item type: rabbet plane

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Description: Fork is rusty. On side where fork is exposed more, wood is warped and chipped. Rabbeting plane
Item type: rabbeting plane

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Description: Top wooden part is coarse. Beech wood. I. McNutt, owner. D. Colton & B. Shineman, makers. unusual side boxing of boxwood. rabbeting plane
Date: 1846-52
Item type: rabbeting plane (molding)

Member number: 489*
Date elected: 5/10/1893

Author: Donnelly, Ignatius
Date: 1883

Author: Flint, Henry M.
Date: 1868

Author: Thompson, Slason
Date: 1912

Description: Samuel Rain was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1847. He served many leadership capacities in the Company, first as a Warden in 1856-1858, on the Managing Committee from 1859-61, in 1863, 1865, 1876-78, 1884 and…
Member number: 355
Date elected: 1/1/1847

Description: Joseph Rakestraw was a master builder listed as an early member of The Carpenters' Company in 1786, but no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm that claim. He married Elizabeth Fox, the sister of Joseph Fox and granddaughter of…
Member number: 16*
Birth date: 1/11700

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Description: oseph was one of the most prominent master builders of the years immediately before and after the Revolution. The son of Joseph and Elizabeth Fox Rakestraw, he had become important in Carpenters' Company affairs by the 1760s, although his date of…
Member number: 59*
Birth date: 1/1/1732
Date elected: 1/2/1763

Description: Joseph, Jr., the third Philadelphia master builder of this name, styled himself "junior" to avoid confusion with his uncle (Joseph Rakestraw, d.1794). He is listed as an "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect…
Member number: 107*
Birth date: 1/1/1750
Date elected: 1/1/1784

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Description: Master builder William Rakestraw is probably the son of William (d.1736)) and grandson of William (d. 1718), making it difficult to sort early references. As a lad he was apprenticed to the leading master builder James Portues who bequeathed him 40…
Member number: 61*
Birth date: 1/1/1718
Date elected: 1/5/1763

Author: Alexander, Mrs.
Date: 1875

Author: Le Baron De Hubner, M.
Date: 1875

Author: De Lanoye, F.
Date: 1870

Author: Jackson, Helen
Date: 1885

Description: Alexander Ramsey was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1813. He resided at 175 Cherry Street and died in 1822. He left a family of little means, and the Carpenters' Company aided them financially throughout the…
Member number: 261*
Date elected: 1/1/1813

Author: Reid, Mayne, Capt.
Date: 1869

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1871

Description: According to a 1971 letter fromJohn Harbesonto Robert Ennis: Joseph Randall, Master Carpenter, was the builder of the Walnut Street Theater from the plans of the architectJohn Haviland. A Quaker, he was elected a member of the Carpenters' Company of…
Member number: 294
Date elected: 1/1/1827

Description: William Randolph was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. In the 1820 City Directory he is listed as a lumber merchant residing at 223 N. Water street. He served as the Company's Secretary in from 1824-26 and…
Member number: 265*
Date elected: 1/1/1814

Member number: 469*
Date elected: 8/4/1886

Date: 1949-01-01 circa

Author: Zepp, Edward G., realtor
Date: 1957

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Description: The master builder Jacob Reary was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of earliest surviving records of the 1760s. At The Company meeting of April 15, 1771, Thomas Nevell reported that Reary "Stood in Need of Some Assistance After…
Member number: 72*

Author: Langstreth,
Date: 1859

Author: Besant, Walter.
Date: 1893
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