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Right half of top rod
Description:
Broken piece of a Rodback Windsor Side Chair.
Date:
circa 1825
Item type:
chair piece
Ribbon commemorating CCCCP Centennial
Description:
Blue ribbon with gold lettering saying, "BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND CO. OF PHILADELPHIA Oct. 24th 1882". Attached to bottom is tassle of wire coil. No accession number is sewn on at present.
Date:
1887
Item type:
commemorative ribbon
Rhoads, Samuel
Description:
The Quaker Samuel Rhoads was one of the most influential master builders of the colonial period. Born in Philadelphia County, the son of John and Hannah (Willcox) Rhoads, he first appeared as a speculative builder flourishing in the 1730s and 1740s.…
Member number:
13*
Birth date:
1/11711
Rhoads, Joseph
Description:
The Southwark master builder Joseph Rhoads was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of earliest surviving records. He first is recorded as present at a Company meeting in 1767, and he served on various Company committees in 1770s. On…
Member number:
52*