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Land of Lorne: A Poet's Adventures in the Scottish Hebrides
Author:
Buchanan, Robert
Date:
1871
Land of Charity; an account of Travancore and its Devil Worship
Author:
Mateer, Rev. Samuel
Date:
1870
Lancaster, Thomas
Description:
Thomas Lancaster was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was also an original member of the Humane Fire Company founded the same year. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum…
Member number:
179*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Lancaster, Moses
Description:
Born into a Quaker family in Bucks Co., PA, Moses Lancaster came to Philadelphia around 1802. He was elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811 and served as warden and on the Managing Committee. In her groundbreaking study of early Philadelphia…
Member number:
255
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Lancaster, John
Description:
John Lancaster was a carpenter and lumber merchant elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811. In the City Directory of 1820 he was listed at 176 N. 4th Street. In 1830, he lived at the same location but had changed listing from lumber merchant to…
Member number:
250*
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Lamplighter's Story--Hunted Down; The Detective Police; and Other Novelettes.
Author:
Dickens, Charles.
Date:
1881
Lamplighter, The.
Author:
Cummins, Maria S.
Lamartine and his friends
Author:
DeLacratelle, Henri
Date:
1880
Lal.
Author:
Hammond, William A.
Date:
1884
Lake Regions of Central Africa
Author:
Burton, Richard F.
Date:
1860
Lake Ngami, or Explorations and Discoveries during four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa
Author:
Anderson, C.J. with introduction of J.C. Fremont
Date:
1857
Lake Breezes: or, The Cruise of the Sylvania
Author:
Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)
Date:
1879
Laird of Norlaw, The
Author:
Oliphant, Mrs.
Date:
1872
Lady's Second Journey Round the World . .
Author:
Pfeiffer, Ida
Date:
1856
Lady with the Tubies, The
Author:
Wister, A. L.
Date:
1888
Lady Silverdale's Sweetheart and Other Tales.
Author:
Black, William.
Date:
1892
Lady Patty: A Sketch.
Author:
Duchess, The. (M. Argles Hundergford.)
Date:
1892
Lady of the Aroostook
Author:
Howells, W. D.
Date:
1879
Lady of Fort St. John.
Author:
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell.
Date:
1891
Lady Jane
Author:
Jamison, C. V.
Date:
1891
Lacon, or many Things in a few Words, addressed to those who think
Author:
Colton, C. C.
Date:
1855
Laboratory Experiments on the Class Reactions and Identification of Organic Substances
Author:
Noyes, Arthur A., Ph. D. and Samuel P. Mulliken, Ph. D.
Date:
1915
Labor Policy of the Federal Government
Author:
Metz, Harold W.
Date:
1945
La Dame De Monsoreau. (2 Vols.)
Author:
Dumas, Alexandre.
Date:
1889
La Dame De Monsoreau. (2 Vols.)
Author:
Dumas, Alexandre.
Date:
1889
Krider, William
Description:
William Krider was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 and signed the Articles in 1791. Said to have worked on Library Hall and paid for his Carpenters' Company admission fees by helping to finish Carpenters' Hall after the Library Company…
Member number:
161*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Kramer, Philip
Description:
Phillip Kramer was a house carpenter in Philadelphia born in the year 1805. Kramer found enough success as a house carpenter for induction into the Carpenters' Company in 1854. He served the Company dutifully as a Warden from 1864-1866, on the…
Member number:
379
Date elected:
7/26/1854
Koran, The.
Author:
Sale, George
Date:
1855
Koder, Levi
Member number:
420
Date elected:
7/15/1872
Knowledge is Power
Author:
Knight, Charles
Date:
1856
Knout (The) and the Russian, or the Muscovite Empire, the Czar and his People.
Author:
DeLagny, G.
Date:
1854
Knight's Armor: A History of the Early Origin of the Knights of Pythias
Author:
Shackleford, H.K.
Date:
1869
Knight, Robert Tower
Description:
Robert Tower Knight was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1833. His father and brother, both named Daniel, were members of the Carpenters' Company. Robert and his brother were the contractors for building the Philadelphia…
Member number:
316*
Birth date:
1/1/1807
Date elected:
1/1/1833
Knight, Daniel Ridgway
Description:
Daniel Ridgeway Knight was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1829. His father, Daniel Knight, had been a member of the Company since 1789. Daniel completed insurance surveys of the Company's headquarters, Carpenters' Hall, first…
Member number:
298*
Birth date:
1/1/1801
Date elected:
1/1/1829
Knight, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Knight was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 (signed Articles in 1791) who paid his admission in carpenters work, specifically the trim and balusters of the second floor window at Carpenters' Hall. He served as Warden…
Member number:
159*
Birth date:
9/12/1759
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Knight-Errant
Author:
Lyall, Edna
Date:
1890
Kitty's Conquest
Author:
King, Charles, Capt.
Date:
1884
Kit and Kitty.
Author:
Blackmore, R. D.
Date:
1890
Kismet.
Author:
Fletcher, J. C.
Date:
1876
Kinsley, Frazer
Description:
Frazer (Frazier, Frasier) Kinsley was a master builder appointed by the Committee of Safety in 1776, along with Thomas Nevell and others to collect lead clock and sash weights to be used for ammunition. An "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/4/1782
Kings and Queens, or Life in the Palace (Napoleon)
Author:
Abbott, John S.C.
Date:
1855
King's Own
Author:
Marryat, Capt.
Date:
1884
King, John
Description:
The master builder John King became a paying student of Thomas Nevell in 1766. Nevell recorded in his account book on 12 March 1766, that King paid him two pounds "to Instructions in the Art of Drawing Sundry Propositions in Architecture." King next…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/2/1784
King Arthur: Not a Love Story
Author:
Mulock, D. M. C.
Kilmeny.
Author:
Black, William.
Date:
1892
Killgore, John
Member number:
370
Date elected:
1/17/1853
Khedive's Egypt: or, The Old House of Bondage Under New Masters
Author:
De Leon, Edwin
Date:
1878
Keys to "First Prayer in Congress"
Description:
Diagram, identifying figures within the picture. Black on white. Framed. Key to 1st Prayer
Item type:
key to 1st Prayer
Key to the Knowledge and Use of The Holy Bible
Author:
Blunt, J.H.
Date:
1869
Ketcham, John K.
Member number:
447
Date elected:
4/26/1878