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Author: Viardot, Louis
Date: 1871

Author: Duplessis
Date: 1871

Author: Baile, J.
Date: 1872

Author: Russell, Charles
Date: 1871

Author: Donald, R.
Date: 1871

Author: Ball, Robert
Date: 1870

Author: Fleming, Mary Agnes.

Author: Timbs, John
Date: 1872

Author: Whiteing, Richard
Date: 1871

Author: Marion, F.
Date: 1870

Author: Lyall, Edna

Author: Hale,
Date: 1873

Author: Collis, Septima M.
Date: 1890

Author: Howells, W. D.
Date: 1884

Author: Pfeiffer, Ida
Date: 1852

Author: Wallace, E. D.
Date: 1872

Author: Collins, Wilkie.
Date: 1873

Author: Ossoli, Margaret F.
Date: 1855

Author: Marryat, Florence (Mrs. Ross Church)

Author: Elton, J. F.
Date: 1867

Author: Besant, Walter and James Rice.

Author: Hummel, Charles
Date: 1968

Author: Duyckinck, Evert A.
Date: 1856

Author: Mathews, William
Date: 1888

Author: Morris, F. Sydney
Date: 1884

Author: Burroughs, John
Date: 1887

Author: Bennet, J. Henry
Date: 1865

Author: Gautier, Th
Date: 1874

Author: Howe, Joseph W.
Date: 1875

Author: Coffin, Charles
Date: 1866

Author: Lisle, Anna. (Annabella Crawford)

Author: Buckley, Arabella ( Mrs. Fisher)
Date: 1883

Author: Charles, E. R.

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1864

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Description: President's chair. One of a set of three chairs- this one is the largest of the three. See ccccp-039a-b. Windsor Comb-back armchair Carved crest and bamboo turned legs. Mahogany with clear coat finish. accompanies speaker's desk, CCCCP-037
Date: 2nd half of 19th C. (1860)
Item type: armchair

Date: 1981-04-21

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Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison
Date: 1859

Date: 1981-08-20

Author: Williams, Henry T.
Date: 1872

Author: Wight, O.W.

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

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

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

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

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: 319*
Date elected: 1/1/1834

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

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

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
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