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A New Method of Macarony Making, as practiced at Boston in North America. Cartoon Tar + Feather Print
Description:
A political cartoon showing a Custom House officer being tarred and feathered by a crowd at dockside while tea is dumped in harbor. Framed, wood. 9-3-85 - According to Dr. Doris Fanelli, this is a copy of an 18th C. print that was made in the late…
Date:
1775
Item type:
tar + feather print
6 piece silver tea service
Description:
this six-piece silver tea/coffee service was used regularly by the Company for entertaining until mid-1990s. Managing Committee Minutes of December 1986 note that Charles E. Peterson gave the silver tea service to use in the newly decorated Dalkeith…
Item type:
silver tea service
3 commemorative medals- gold bar pin which says: "1724 PHILADELPHIA 1924."
Description:
Attached to each medal is a red, white and blue ribbon and finally a gold medallion which has a raised image of the ball and lettering. The medal with the faded ribbon has the accession number CC 232 written on it.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
commemorative medals
24" single fold Gunter-type rule
Description:
American 24" rule; notation attached to rule which says, "1891 used by Samuel Betts" (removed 9-19-87). calibration numbers and letters are hand-stamped. Brass tips, missing one pin.
Item type:
American 24" rule
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