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Author: Heckman, Oliver S., compiler (Pennsylvania Historical Commission)
Date: 1942

Author: Bulwer Lytton, Sir Edward.
Date: 1868

Author: Bulwer Lytton, Sir Edward.
Date: 1868

Author: Campbell, Helen.
Date: 1885

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1886

Author: Nichols, James R.
Date: 1883

Author: Craddock, Charles E. (M. N. Murfree)
Date: 1885

Author: Alexander, Mrs.
Date: 1874

Author: Reid, Mayne, Capt.
Date: 1871

Author: Black, William.
Date: 1886

Author: King, Thomas Starr
Date: 1859

Date: 1940-01-01 c.

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Description: Israel White's Patent of Plane designed by I.W. Drawn by J. Akin, Lithographer, No. 18 Prune St., Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1833. Contains a list of signatures of 107 sponsors asserting the advantages of White's invention. (Black frame, removed for…
Date: 1833
Item type: White's patent

Author: Douglas, Amanda M.
Date: 1883

Author: Storer, Horatio Robinson
Date: 1871

Author: Peek, George N. with Samuel Crowther
Date: 1936

Date: 1884

Author: Clay, Berth M.
Date: 1883

Author: Hope, Lady

Author: Du Chaillu, Paul
Date: 1870

Author: Reid, Mayne, Capt.
Date: 1872

Author: Ballantyne, R.M.

Author: Cumming, Col. Gordon
Date: 1872

Author: Butler, Major W.F.
Date: 1874

Author: Greenwood, James
Date: 1870

Author: Jones, J. B.
Date: 1865

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1872

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Date: 1981-01-09

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Date: 1802-68 2 to 12 1992

Author: Dixon, William Hepworth
Date: 1851

Date: 1871

Member number: 450
Birth date: 1/1/1816
Date elected: 5/5/1880

Member number: 464*
Birth date: 1/1/1847
Date elected: 5/6/1885

Description: John Williams was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. He served as a Warden in 1854-56, on the Managing Committee from 1857-59 and 1862-64, as Secretary from 1860-1862, Vice President from 1863-65 and as…
Member number: 346
Date elected: 1/1/1839

Member number: 463*
Date elected: 5/6/1885

Description: William Williams was one of the leading master builder/proto-architects in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia. He first comes to notice with a provocative advertisement in the Pennsylvania Packet for January 4, 1773: William Williams, a native of…
Member number: 98*
Birth date: 1/1/1749
Date elected: 1/1/1773

Description: The master builder Jesse Williamson, who appears in Philadelphia city directories in the 1790s with a residence at 333 South Second Street, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 and died in 1852. In the 1790s he may have been in partnership…
Member number: 203*
Date elected: 1/1/1798

Member number: 322
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Member number: 319*
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Description: Joseph Wills was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1836. He served as a Warden of the Company from 1840-1842. Wills built or worked on the Western Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.In 1845 he lived on 13th…
Member number: 331
Date elected: 1/1/1836

Member number: 259*
Date elected: 1/1/1813

Member number: 466*
Date elected: 8/13/1885

Description: The master builder John Wilson was elected to The Carpenters' Company on July 21, 1788. Wilson, however, appears to have been most active as a lumber merchant in partnership with Ralph Wilson at 349 No. Front Street, according to the Philadelphia…
Member number: 156*
Date elected: 1/1/1788

Description: William F. Wilson was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1849. He resided at 14 Budd street in 1830 and moved to 35 Commerce street prior to 1840. He was a Warden of the Carpenters' Company in 1852-1853.Biography…
Member number: 359
Date elected: 1/1/1849

Author: Wight, O.W.

Author: Williams, Henry T.
Date: 1872

Date: 1981-08-20

Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison
Date: 1859

Date: 1981-04-21

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