Browse Items (698 total)
- Item Type: Object
Wooden chest
Description:
Wooden chest; Faded blue paint on side panels, and interior, two iron handles, lock, inside- 3 bottom partitions. Two removable drawers which slide into groove near top. 3 metal wheels. Multiple scratches throughout.
Date:
1705
Item type:
chest
English, George I Silver Tankard- tapering cylindrical body with threaded median bond, hinged dome cover having a high knuckled billet
Description:
four small drawings near the top of the tankard. only an
Date:
1724
Item type:
English silver tankard
Book of Common Prayer
Description:
Book of Common Prayer, of the Church of England, Published in 1763. Presented by Elizabeth H. Fisher. Bound in leather, embossed with gold. Encased in glass and metal box, book rests on embroidered red pillow.
Date:
1763
Item type:
Book of Common Prayer
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
Sackback Windsor armchair
Description:
Spindle armchair with shaped arm rests terminating in knuckled hand grips. shield-shaped plank seat, vase turned and splayed legs with bobbin turned stretchers. 1 of 7.
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Author:
Joseph Henzey
Date:
1773
Item type:
chair
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
Silk banner
Description:
silk banner carried by the Carpenters' Company in 1788. cream colored ground with the Arms of the Carpenters' Company. Hand-carved and gilt frame with eagle cresting.
Date:
1788
Item type:
banner
Leather fire bucket with painting of Carpenters' Hall and "Carpenters' Co." banner across the top. These are barely visible now.
Description:
Fire Bucket. Handle has broken off and is placed inside the bucket. Wood is exposed around the top edge where the leather has fallen away. two holes are at the top of the fire bucket. According to a card placed in one of the other two buckets, it was…
Date:
1789
Item type:
fire bucket
The Upper Ferry Bridge [engraving]
Description:
Engraved by Jacob J. Plocher, after Thomas Birch. Mahogany finished frame. Upper Ferry Bridge
Date:
1812
Item type:
engraving; Upper Ferry Bridge.
Molding plane with very narrow concave blade, 0.25" side bead
Description:
molding plane with many knicks and scratches. smudge of white paint visible on non-blade side. blade is very rusty. beech wood. boxed.by W. Parkes, Birmingham, England
Date:
1818-21
Item type:
molding plane
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
Silk banner
Description:
silk banner carried by the Carpenters' Company in 1832. cream colored ground with the Arms of the Carpenters' Company. Hand-carved and gilt frame with eagle cresting. carried in parade to commemorate Washington's 100th birthday
Date:
1832
Item type:
banner
White's Patent
Description:
Israel White's Patent of Plane designed by I.W. Drawn by J. Akin, Lithographer, No. 18 Prune St., Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1833. Contains a list of signatures of 107 sponsors asserting the advantages of White's invention. (Black frame, removed for…
Date:
1833
Item type:
White's patent
Oil on canvas portrait of Zachariah Howell
Description:
One of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Howell, by Robert Street, Philadelphia, 1834. Both half length, seated, painted to face one another. Mr. Howell holds architectural drawings in his hands. See CCCCP-044.
Date:
1834
Item type:
portrait
Oil on canvas portrait of Mrs. Zachariah Howell
Description:
One of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Howell, by Robert Street, Philadelphia, 1834. Both half length, seated, painted to face one another. Elizabeth is depicted with a lace cap and fichu with orange-colored stone pendant fastening.…
Author:
Robert Street
Date:
1834
Item type:
portrait
Cutaway Architectural Rendering of St. Paul's Cathedral- engraving
Description:
Engraving of St. Paul's Cathedral after Christoper Wren's original intention. Presented to George, Prince of Walse [III] by "Sam. Wale Jr. Gwyn" [?] Published London, 1837, by John Weale Architectural Library, 59 High Holborn I. Gwyn Architecturam…
Date:
1837
Item type:
framed engraving of St. Paul's Cathedral