Browse Items (698 total)
- Item Type: Object
Framed presentation placque describing Quartermaster flag (CCCCP-426)
Description:
Framed presentation Placque; Probably handwritten. Text as follows: "June 16, 1921 This flag represents the colors and insignias of the Quartermaster Corps presented to Carpenters' Hall, Phila., on the 146th Anniversary of the resolution creating the…
Date:
1921
Item type:
framed presentation placque
Photograph of National Park area
Description:
View of National Park area (Carpenters' Hall included) in 1936 from Stack at Custom House, 2nd & Chestnut. Photo by KJ Lotz [?]. The above info on back [of photo]. Framed and matted.
Date:
1936
Item type:
aerial photograph
Framed water color painting scene depicts delegates of First Continental Congress outside Carpenters' Hall
Description:
Framed water color painting. A Federal Art Project, W.P.A. Pennsylvania, 1936, by Wm. John Coffee. Framed, wood.
Date:
1936
Item type:
water color painting
President's badge
Description:
silver-gilt and enameled President's Badge with the Coat of Arms of the Carpenters' Company: pale blue enameled shield with three silver-gilt compasses and a square mounted on relief, surrounded by an oval frame of royal blue with the inscription:…
Date:
1951
Item type:
President's badge
Metal sconce
Description:
metal sconce painted black, with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date:
1954
Item type:
sconce reproduction
Metal sconce
Description:
metal sconce painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date:
1954
Item type:
sconce reproduction
Metal sconce reproduction
Description:
metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date:
1954
Item type:
sconce reproduction
Metal sconce reproduction
Description:
metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date:
1954
Item type:
sconce reproduction
Metal sconce reproduction
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
Wedgewood plate
Description:
Wedgewood plate to commemorate 100 years as national shrine with drawing of Hall. Sticker (presently removed from plate due to dirt) saying "From A Lithograph by Grant M. Simon F.A.I.A. inscription on the back says: "CARPENTERS' COMPANY-…
Date:
1957
Item type:
1957 commemorative plate
National Historic Landmark plaque
Description:
National Historic Landmark register for Hall. Presented by The Department of the Interior, National Park Service 1970
Date:
1970
Item type:
bronze plaque
Framed resolution
Description:
Presented to C.Co. for their 250th Anniversary by the Bicentennial Commission of PA. May 14, 1974. Framed.
Date:
1974
Item type:
framed resolution
Framed certificate
Description:
Presented to C.Co. for their contributions by The Newcomen Society in North America, March 5, 1974. Framed.
Date:
1974
Item type:
framed certificate
Framed certificate
Description:
Certificate presented to C.Co. commemorating its 250th anniversary by Naval Reserve Readiness Command Philadelphia, May 11, 1974. Framed.
Date:
1974
Item type:
framed certificate
To C.Co. from Philadelphia 76- framed award
Description:
Illuminated resollution handwritten and painted. Probably Strickland Studio in Old Land Title Building.
Date:
1974
Item type:
framed award
Bronze plaque
Description:
bronze plaque commemorates the founding of the U.S. Navy, Oct. 13, 1775. Made at the Franklin Mint.
Date:
1975
Item type:
bronze plaque
Recognition of symposium "Building Early America" certificate
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed certificate
Tribute to C.Co. certificate
Description:
tribute to C.Co. from Engineering Societies in Delaware Valley for contributions to the development of early America and Philadelphia. Framed.
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed certificate
Framed certificate
Description:
Presented to C.Co. for their profession by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Sept. 28, 1976. Framed.
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed certificate
Framed logo
Description:
Logo: Philadelphia 76. Framed and matted.
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed logo
Queen Elizabeth II and Philip- photograph
Description:
Photograph presented to C.Co. on their July 6, 1976 visit to the Hall. Autographed. Framed, mounted on blue-papered backboard. On the back of the photograph frame is a letter thanking John B. Ganes for a book received.
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed photograph
Framed certificate; CCCCP thanks 30 sponsors of external restoration
Description:
framed certificate, probably handwritten, CCCCP thanks sponsors of restoration. under glass, with chrome frame.
Date:
1980
Item type:
framed certificate
The Robert Smith Award to Charles E. Peterson
Description:
Framed award; The Robert Smith Award to Charles E. Peterson
Date:
1982
Item type:
framed award
English oak box
Description:
Oak box with gold hinges and small plaque attached which says "YORK MINSTER FIRE 1984." box is lined with red felt. slightly shiny finish. inside is note which says: YORK MINSTER
Date:
1984 / 1985
Item type:
English oak box
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
Wooden tool box
Description:
Wooden tool box with two hinges for saws inside the lid and with sectioned removable tray and metal handles.
Date:
19th C.
Item type:
tool box
Metal Marking Square
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
Metal Marking Tri-square
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
Steel combination square with level, Bate Manufacturing Co.
Description:
level or square is painted black. tube of water is green. 12" calibration on rule
Date:
20th C.
Item type:
level / square
Metal scraper with wooden handle and wooden cylindrical part on which to rest
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
Steel Nesting Saw (aka pit saw)
Description:
Nesting saw or pit saw bolt with movable hinge on handle. Nesting Saw, with three blades. by Henry Disston & Sons, Philadelphia "W" inscribed on both sides of handle. "HENRY DISSTON & SONS PHILADA EASY-STEEL U.S.A. WARRANTED" on blade.
Date:
20th C.
Item type:
nesting saw, pit saw
Stand-up speaker's desk
Description:
Large three-sectioned stand-up speaker's desk. Mahogany veneered, slant-top lift-lid center section. Flat-top side sections have sliding writing shelves on sides. The front of desk ornamented with free standing Doric and Ionic columns; eight heavy…
Date:
2nd half 19th C. (1860)
Item type:
speaker's desk