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Description: Match plane; beech wood. Used for cutting wooden tongues. Arm wedge broken and toe torn. Handle cracked at base. By John M. Barkley, Baltimore, MD. Made in earlier part Barkley's career.

Date: 1816-24

Item type: match plane

Handled steel and brass, wood filled Bench plane

Description: Bench Plane of handled steel and brass. Black paint on metal is chipping. bench plane brass sides with steel sole. front handle reworked.

Date: 1850-1875

Item type: bench plane

Handled stair rail plane

Description: Rail plane; beech wood. Rare, but missing cutter and wedge. The plane is cracked along bottom of body. By J. Colton, Phila. M.A. Boyle, owner.

Date: c.1860-90

Item type: rail plane

Handled round plane, 0.5" cut

Description: Round plane; Beech wood. Toe and handle of the plane is worn. Manufactured by Auburn Tool Co., Auburn, NY.

Item type: round plane

Handled round plane

Description: Round plane; beech wood. Manufactured by H. Chapin, Union Factory. Wood is badly rotted.

Item type: round plane

Handled reverse ogee plane, 1 7/8" cut molding plane

Description: Handled Ogee/Molding Plane. Fine Lignum vitae double boxing by J.T. Jones, Philadelphia. D. Wallace, owner. The plane has a blade missing.

Date: 1831-46

Item type: molding plane, ogee plane

Handled molding plane with 1 1/16" nosing cut jack plane

Description: jack plane used for rough, preliminary planing. 1 1/16" nosing cut convex edge of blade enabled it to cut deeply. gold / brown paint is smeared on one side of the stock (base). small nail near base of handle. Beech wood. by Samuel Bibighaus,…

Date: 1850's

Item type: jack plane

Handled molding plane

Description: Molding plane; beech wood. Upon the plane, there are two makers' stamps, incised and embossed. Two different makers' addresses. By J. Colton, Phila. and M.A. Boyle.

Item type: Molding plane

Handled match plane for groving. rabbet plane

Description: Thin sheet of metal reinforces area near blade- attached with 5 large flat nails. Wedge arms. Beech wood. Replacement wedge. rabbet plane

Item type: rabbet plane

Handled Cornice Plane, 2.25" cut

Description: Handled Cornice plane; by J. Colton, Phila. Blade and some boxing missing. M.A. Boyle, owner. Rare plane.

Date: c. 1850

Item type: cornice plane

Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy

Author: Lardner, D.

Date: 1851

Handbook of Chemical Technology

Author: Wagner, Rudolf

Date: 1872

Handbook for Architects and Builders

Author: Hall, Emery S.

Date: 1909

Hand-written sheet two-sided, seems to be records of a meetings, possibly of the Library Committee, dealing with the CCCCP/A.I.A. book from November 6, 1957 and January 13, 1958

Date: 1957-1958

Tags: 1957, library, library committee

Hand-written photocopy of a letter from Leon Clemmer regarding the acceptance of women into the membership

Date: 1988-10-19

Tags: 1988, letter, wome

Hand-written photocopy of a letter from Ehrman (Bud) Mitchell thanking Mather Lippincott for recommending his name for membership

Date: 1977-01-03

Tags: 1977, h. mather lippincott, letter, nominees

Hand-written photocopy of a letter from Bill Hough regarding the acceptance of women into the membership

Date: 1988-10-18

Tags: 1988, letter, women

Hand-written note on yellow Fred G. Ufferman stationary regarding the CCCCP/A.I.A. Book

Date: 1957-11-02

Tags: 1957, library

Hand-written note on Cope&Lippincott stationary, dealing with photographs' prices

Date: 1905-06-04

Tags: 1982, photos

Hand-written note from J. William Cornell, referring to the quest of receiving members' photos

Date: 1905-06-04

Tags: 1982, photos

Hand-written note by Jane Unkefer on CCCCP stationary with following form letter asking for financial support of Hall renovations

Date: 1982-04-05

Tags: 1982, letter, preservation

Hand-written minutes of the April 19, 1993 CCCCP quarterly meeting

Date: 1993-04-19

Tags: 1993, quarterly meeting

Hand-written list of Nominees and Elected Members from 1979 to 1981

Date: 1905-06-03

Tags: 1979, 1980, 1981, nominees

Hand-written lined notesheet citing Committee Members for the Habitat for Humanity Award Gala

Date: 1996-01-03

Tags: 1996, celebration, gala

Hand-written letter to John Hayes, Sr. concerning the CCCCP nomination of Charles Erickson

Date: 1905-06-19

Tags: 1997, letter, nominees

Hand-written letter from John Hayes regarding the nomination of Mark Fox to the CCCCP, with missing attachments

Date: 1995-05-08

Tags: 1995, letter, membership committee, nominees

Hand-written index card with address of Louis Percy(?)

Date: 1957-1961

Tags: 1961, library

Hand-written index card and following three pages concerning the financial issues of the CCCCP/A.I.A. book

Date: 1957-07-25

Tags: 1957, letter, library

Hand-written index card (probably Mather Lippincott's) regarding the costs of the CCCCP/A.I.A. book

Date: 1905-05-14

Tags: 1961, h. mather lippincott, library

Hand-forged butteris

Description: Hand-forged butteris, 19th century. Unusual in that blade angle may be adjusted by screw mechanism. steel stock and blade, brass ferrule. Wooden handle.

Date: 19th C.

Item type: butteris

Hand-drawn diagram, possibly concerning gift shop renovations

Date: 1905-05-28

Tags: 1975, preservation

Hand-Book of American Literature; Historical, Biographical, and Critical

Hand drill with wooden handle

Description: 2nd of two metal hand drills with wooden handle. Drill size approx. 2"

Item type: metal hand drill

Hand drill with wood handle

Description: metal hand drill with wooden handle and drill size approx. 2"

Item type: metal hand drill

Hand Book of Universal Literature

Author: Botta, Anne C. L.

Date: 1873

Hancock, William C.

Description: William C. Hancock was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1831. He served as Warden of the Company in 1836 and on the Managing Committee in 1839. In 1820 he was listed in the City Directory as an owner of a…

Member number: 303*

Date elected: 1/1/1831

Hancock, Joseph M.

Member number: 382

Date elected: 7/25/1855

Hammerman's Guild framed photographic print of original emblem.

Description: Hammerman's Guild framed photographic print of original emblem. "Carved front from Hammerman's loft, Old St. Nicholas Kirk, Dalkieth, Midlothian. Original now in Royal Museum, Edinburgh." Written on small engraved plate on frame. Gift to the…

Item type: framed print

Hallowell, Israel

Description: Israel Hallowell was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company, and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture published in…

Member number: 147*

Birth date: 1/1/1743

Date elected: 1/1/1786

Hall, John

Description: John Hall was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company (1769) and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture pubished in…

Member number: 145*

Date elected: 1/1/1786

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