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Author: Eliot, George.

Author: Amicis, Edmondo De
Date: 1882

Author: Mitchell, Joseph B.
Date: 1967

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1864

Author: Abbott, John S. C.
Date: 1872

Author: Holmes, Mary J.
Date: 1880

Member number: 88*
Date elected: 1/1/1771

Description: Master builder and merchant John Mifflin was the son of John Mifflin of Kent County (DE) who married Hannah Taylor in 1747. Elected to The Carpenters' Company well before the date of earliest surviving records, Mifflin was totally inactive in Company…
Birth date: 1/1/1720
Date elected: 1/1/1760

Description: Benjamin Mifflin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1770, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a date. He was often absent from Philadelphia, and references to his working in northern Delaware…
Member number: 86*
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Author: Kirk, Ellen Olney
Date: 1884

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Description: Thomas Middleton was a master builder believed to have come to Philadelphia in 1762 from Monmouth County, New Jersey. He signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1770 and died the following year. Written by Roger W. Moss, from…
Member number: 78*
Birth date: 1/1/1716
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Author: Eliot, George.
Date: 1873

Author: Eliot, George.
Date: 1873

Author: Gladstone, J. H.
Date: 1872

Description: George G. Meyers was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. Meyers served as a Company's Warden in 1843 as well as three terms on the Managing Committee in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1845, He was listed in the…
Member number: 306
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Author: Griffin, Solomon Bulkley
Date: 1886

Author: Wilson, Robert A.
Date: 1855

Author: Mansfield, Edward D.
Date: 1851

Author: Lackland, William
Date: 1871

Author: Bloxam, Charles Loudon
Date: 1872

Author: Whitney, J. D.
Date: 1854

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Description: heavy metal tool with long sharp edge in wooden plank case with 3 leather straps
Item type: wood case with metal instrument

Description: Metal storage box to house old official documents for Carpenters' Company; papers moved to Hollinger box with original deeds that will move to APS. This box kept for historic recognition.
Item type: Metal storage box

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Description: Rectangular metal scraper and wooden cylindrical part on which to rest. The handle and rest are painted maroon. Cabinet or pattern-maker's scraper.
Date: 20th C.
Item type: metal scraper

Description: type of all metal scraper marked Butness with ?.
Item type: 1917 scraper

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Description: Metal sconce reproduction painted black with area for 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder. No mirror has been installed.
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce painted black, with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: Metal saw set with wooden handle and movable metal part.
Item type: saw set

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Description: 1) pushed to smooth a rough cut made by the forming chisel. used as a finishing tool. 2) side view: flat and thin 3) some decoloration 4) incision goes from top of blade along back of the chisel for a few inches 5) sharp blade very narrow blade on…
Item type: paring chisel

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Description: 1) pushed to smooth a rough cut made by the forming chisel. used as a finishing tool. 2) side view: flat and thin 3) some decoloration 4) incision goes from top of blade along back of the chisel for a few inches 5) sharp blade very narrow blade on…
Item type: paring chisel

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Description: metal paring chisel 1) pushed to smooth a rough cut made by the forming chisel. used as a finishing tool. 2) side view: flat and thin 3) some decoloration 4) incision goes from top of blade along back of the chisel for a few inches 5) sharp blade
Item type: paring chisel

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Description: metal paring chisel 1) pushed to smooth a rough cut made by the forming chisel. used as a finishing tool. 2) side view: flat and thin 3) some decoloration 4) incision goes from top of blade along back of the chisel for a few inches 5) sharp blade…
Item type: paring chisel

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Description: paring chisel: 1) pushed to smooth a rough cut made by the forming chisel. used as a finishing tool. 2) side view: flat and thin 3) some decoloration 4) incision goes from top of blade along back of the chisel for a few inches 5) sharp blade rust…
Item type: paring chisel

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Description: Tri-square has wooden handle with 6" steel. Three brass diamonds on handle. Brass square edge. S. Snow, owner
Date: 19th C.?
Item type: tri-square

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Description: Tri-square with rosewood handle with 18" steel blade. Handle brass fastened, brass square edge. By Bushnell, Philadelphia. E.K. Snow, owner
Date: 19th C.
Item type: tri-square

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Description: metal key
Item type: key

Description: steel plate with 2 flat hooks and one protruding hook. Haman Pat. Mark 79
Item type: metal hook

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Description: Three-legged flagpole base with claw feet made of brass-like metal. Two pins to stabilize poles. Bolted to dark metal disk. 4 of 5. Repaired with three wooden slats.
Date: c. 1940
Item type: flagpole base

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Description: Three-legged flagpole base with claw feet made of brass-like metal. Two pins to stabilize poles. Bolted to dark metal disk. 3 of 5.
Date: c. 1940
Item type: flagpole base

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Description: Three-legged flagpole base with claw feet made of brass-like metal. Two pins to stabilize poles. Bolted to dark metal disk. 2 of 5.
Date: c. 1940
Item type: flagpole base

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Description: Three-legged flagpole base with claw feet made of brass-like metal. Two pins to stabilize poles. Bolted to dark metal disk. 1 of 5.
Date: c. 1940
Item type: flagpole base

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Description: Three-legged flagpole base with claw feet made of brass-like metal. Two pins to stabilize poles. Bolted to dark metal disk. 5 of 5. Repaired with three wooden slats.
Date: c. 1940
Item type: flagpole base
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