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Woolley, Jr., Edmund
Description:
The master builder Edmund Woolley is chiefly remembered as the master builder-architect of the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall). Named for his father, Woolley was probably born in England and is known to have been in Philadelphia by 1705.…
Member number:
5*
Birth date:
1/1/1690
Wooden trying plane
Description:
Wooden trying plane with wooden handle and metal blade.
Item type:
trying plane
Wooden tool see below
Description:
wooden tool has screw turn for a type of press and second press or drill
Item type:
wooden tool
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
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