Browse Items (698 total)
- Item Type: Object
Carved wooden ornament
Description:
Decorative dark wood ornament with large flower carved in the center. Medallion. (See Bldg. Records database #3039)
Item type:
carved ornament
Cast steel center bit
Description:
cast steel center bit
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center bit
Cast steel center bit
Description:
Cast steel center bit.
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center bit
Cast Steel Center Bit
Description:
Cast steel center bit.
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center bit
Cast steel center bit
Description:
cast steel center bit
Item type:
center bit
Cast-iron grate with curving spiral-like designs
Description:
cast iron grate--Rust evident on interior of back border. One of two "hooks" on back is broken off.
Item type:
cast iron grate
Chisel and Waisted type iron nail
Description:
Chisel marked "Cast Steel" , 8" blade, homemade handle on chisel found in Carpenters' Hall, second floor apt., under kitchen floor. also a cut nail from period. (work done in 1857)
Date:
1850-80
Item type:
chisel and iron nail
Chisel with no handle
Description:
Chisel without a handle; point is not sharp. The object is very rusty.
Item type:
chisel
Circular engraving on a square wooden block, printing plate.
Description:
Printing Plate. Circular engraving is placed in middle of square wooden block, printing plate. Around the seal, the wood has been roughly carved away. The seal is surrounded on four sides by fourteen silved rectangles of varying thicknesses. This is…
Item type:
printing plate
Coat rack
Description:
free-standing coat rack with bobbin turned center pole and four turned and splayed legs. 1 of 2.
Date:
c. 1900
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coat rack
Coat rack
Description:
free-standing coat rack with bobbin turned center pole and four turned and splayed legs. 2 of 2. Patent date on circular metal piece at the top with the actual coat hooks is: December 25, 1888
Date:
c. 1900
Item type:
coat rack
Commemorative framed ribbon, silk
Description:
The framed ribbon commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Washington- Feb. 22, 1832. Portrait within a shield. Above rising sun of CCCCP's and below compass and square. Gilt frame.
Date:
c. 1832
Item type:
framed ribbon
Cooper's borer; tool with thin wooden handle, hollow metal extension which tapers to coil shape and then to screw point.
Description:
Cooper's borer; tool. Steel borer with wooden handle.
Date:
early 20th C.
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Cooper's bunghole borer
Cooper's borer; tool. wooden handle and metal shovel-type bit
Description:
cooper's borer; tool. tapers to spiral and then to a point at the tip. early, hand-forged
Date:
c. 1800-1850
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cooper's bunghole borer
Cooper's bung; wooden handle, with metal shovel-shaped extension whcih tapers to a spiral tip.
Description:
Cooper's Bung. Tip is broken off. Hand-forged.
Date:
first half of 19th C.
Item type:
cooper's bung
Coopers' curved bowl adze
Description:
adze with wooden handle. iron head- very rusty. wrought steel with original wooden handle. cutting radius 3 5/8"
Item type:
adze
Copper plate
Description:
Copper plate depicts bespectacled man wearing Carpenters' Co. Badge accepting or presenting a certificate from or to the man seen in CCCCP-179 and CCCCP-180. Plate has many small scratches on its left side.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate
Description:
Copper plate with attached Wooden Block. Upper portion of plate is broken off at angles in both top corners. Plate has raised letters.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate attached to wooden block depicts two men in military costumes, one flag and a man in a suit standing in a grassy field
Description:
Printing plate and accompanying wooden block. Bottom of wooden block attached to the copper plate is two-toned. 1 of 4.
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copper plate
Copper plate attached to wooden block.
Description:
Copper printing plate attached to a wooden block. Visible on the plate are seven men in uniform and a man in a suit also seen in CCCCP-179 and CCCCP-181. 2 of 4 plates.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate engraved with images of a gate and five styles of "pales" for a palisade fence.
Description:
Copper Plate. On the top half of the plate, there are three groups of two "pales," eachof the six a different style. The groups are labelled, "Fig. 1," "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3." The gate is labelled as such. The engraver has made it appear that both its…
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Engraved copper plate
Copper plate engraved with images of Plate #XI in Carpenters' Company 1786 Rule Book, "Window Shutters."
Description:
Copper plate engraved with images of Plate #XI in Carpenters’ Company 1786 Rule Book, “Window Shutters.” Two images on the one copper plate. back of plate appears to have ink residue.
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copper plate
Copper plate with 3 engraved designs of various sizes and shapes.
Description:
Copper Plate. Three designs are reproduced as plate XVIii in the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786, listed as "Extra Heavy Paneled Doors." Dark discoloring on the back. Fragments of 5 other designs are inscribed on the back. They are similar to those…
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engraved copper plate
Copper plate with 6 different engraved designs of half circular windowpanes on it.
Description:
Engraved copper plate. All six designs on the copper plate are same size and shape externally. Within the semi-circular frame, the designs vary from very simple to very ornate. Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 are depicted as plate XIII in the Carpenters' Company…
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engraved copper plate
Copper plate with 6 engraved designs of doorjambs of various sizes.
Description:
Thin copper plate. All six designs are shown as plate IX in the Carpenters' Company Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "doorjambs."
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Engraved copper plate.
Copper plate with engraved designs on both sides
Description:
Copper Plate. The shiny side of the plate has designs which are seen as plates XV and XVI of The Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "Trussed Partitions" and "Paneled Door Details." The six designs on the duller side are seen as…
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engraved copper plate
Copper plate with image of "First Prayer in Congress"
Description:
Copper plate is attached to wood block with six small nails. the plate itself is scratched and has pinkish tone when lighted. shreds of paper are stuck to the back of the wooden block.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with photographic image
Description:
Copper plate with photographic image of men in uniform standing behind three men in suits- one facing the viewer's right, one wearing a Carpenters' Co. badge and one holding a shovel scratches are visible on the plate itself. The image was…
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with photographic image nailed to a wooden block
Description:
Copper and Wood Printng Block. Photographic image portrays interior east view of Carpenters' Hall, with doorway, pillar and chairs. The copper plate is scratched and worn.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
copper plate-see "markings"
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
1 of 5 copper plates copper worn down at top of page.
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copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
Copper plate attached to wooden block--copper stops abruptly below Betts' name and wood is exposed.
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wooden block with copper plate used for printing
Copper plate with two designs on the shiny side and fragments of other designs on the dull side.
Description:
Copper Plate. The two designs on the shiny side are printed as plate XX in the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "Dog-leg'd or Plain Open Newel Stairs." The very detailed designs on the dull side are not found in the Rule Book.
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engraved copper plate
Copper plate with two engraved designs.
Description:
Engraved Copper Plate. One design is of a fireplace; the other is a detail. Both designs are reproduced as plate XXVII of the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are listed as "Georgian-style Chimneypiece in wood."
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with two engravings of Chinese railings
Description:
Copper plate with two engravings. These engravings are Plate XXVIII of The Carpenters' Co. 1786 Rule Book. They are labelled as "Fig. 1" and "Fig. 2." Fig. 1 railing is composed of diagonal lines crossing within a rectangle. Fig. 2 railing is…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copy of Property Deed
Description:
Copy of property deed matted in white and framed in wood painted black with gold trim.
Item type:
Carpenters' Company Property Deed (photographic print)
Corinthian column capital
Description:
Corinthian column capital, other of pair to be used in exhibit wood carving See Bldg. Records Database #3039
Item type:
capital, composite wood carving
Corinthian Temple [photograph]
Description:
Parade photograph of C.Co. Sept. 15, 1887. model of Corinthian Temple, for Constitutional Centennial. Copy of July 4, 1788 exhibit. Carved wood frame.
Date:
1887
Item type:
framed photograph
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