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- Item Type: Object
Metal tool in wood case
Description:
heavy metal tool with long sharp edge in wooden plank case with 3 leather straps
Item type:
wood case with metal instrument
Silver goblet
Description:
Gift from Carpenters' Company of London during there visit in May 2009. Inscription: "This silver goblet was made in London in 1874, 100 years after the First American Congress was held in Carpenters' Hall Philadelphia. It was presented to the…
Date:
1874
Item type:
Silver Goblet
Framed Print. "Christ in the Carpenter's Shop"
Description:
Framed Print titled: "Christ in the Carpenter's Shop" Reproduction "ONE OF FOUR TUDOR WALL PAINTINGS FROM THE MIDDLE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN CARPENTERS' HALL LONDON. In the centre Joseph is trimming a beam, whilst on the right is the Virgin Mary and the…
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Framed Print
Oil Portrait of Charles E. Peterson
Description:
Oil Portrait of Charles E. Peterson (1906-2004), Member and Historian Emeritus of the Carpenters' Company, in gilt frame. Painted by Emilie R. Bregy. Half length, facing front, sitting in the library holding a copy of "Building Early America."
Date:
1994
Item type:
Portrait
Mahogany Ballot Box of dovetailed construction, with turned and extended handle, one compartment, sliding lid.
Description:
Mahogany Ballot Box of dovetailed construction, with turned and extended handle, one compartment, and sliding lid for concealed roled ballots. (Note attached to the outside of the box states it is from Old Swede's Church.) numerous scratches and…
Date:
late 18th/early 19th century
Item type:
Ballot Box
Piece of Weathervane
Description:
Large hollow metal ‘ball’ that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters’ Hall as part of the weather vane.
Large rusty thin metal 'ball' that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters' Hall, as part of the waether vane. Originally had 6 or more…
Large rusty thin metal 'ball' that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters' Hall, as part of the waether vane. Originally had 6 or more…
Date:
1770s
Item type:
Ball from cupola weather vane
Fid
Description:
rope maker's fid. Looks like a wooden stake. Has a rounded knob on one end and comes to a point at the other end. six grooves cut around the middle of the fid.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
fid
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Painted Brown. 4 of a set of 4.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
3 of a set of 4 metal door plates. Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Painted brown.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
2 of a set of 4 metal door plates. Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Gold tint
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Wooden stone cutter's mallet with handle
Description:
Beech stone cutter's mallet with handle. Made of wood, 7 accessioning sheets for tools for NBM [?].
Tools are set aside in storage room on right side.
Tools are set aside in storage room on right side.
Date:
approx. 1838 or late 19thc.
Item type:
Mell or Mallet
Oil on canvas portrait of Joseph Worrell
Description:
Oil on canvas, portrait of Joseph Worrell (c. 1769-1840) and attributed to artist Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842). Worrell was a house carpenter, or builder, who was elected President of the Carpenters' Company, Philadelphia in 1821. This portrait was…
Date:
1821 (probably circa)
Item type:
portrait