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A New Method of Macarony Making, as practiced at Boston in North America. Cartoon Tar + Feather Print
Description:
A political cartoon showing a Custom House officer being tarred and feathered by a crowd at dockside while tea is dumped in harbor. Framed, wood. 9-3-85 - According to Dr. Doris Fanelli, this is a copy of an 18th C. print that was made in the late…
Date:
1775
Item type:
tar + feather print
Sackback Windsor armchair
Description:
Spindle armchair with shaped arm rests terminating in knuckled hand grips. shield-shaped plank seat, vase turned and splayed legs with bobbin turned stretchers. 1 of 7.
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Repaired by Robert Whitle, Laurel Rd., Solebury, Bucks County, PA 18963.…
Author:
Joseph Henzey
Date:
1773
Item type:
chair
Piece of Weathervane
Description:
Large hollow metal ‘ball’ that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters’ Hall as part of the weather vane.
Large rusty thin metal 'ball' that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters' Hall, as part of the waether vane. Originally had 6 or more…
Large rusty thin metal 'ball' that was originally on the cupola of Carpenters' Hall, as part of the waether vane. Originally had 6 or more…
Date:
1770s
Item type:
Ball from cupola weather vane
Friendship Carpenters' Company Minutes
Description:
Also contains Carpenters' Company Ledger, 22 Feb 1769 to 16 Jan 1823, From the inventory description: hz; on spine, in manuscript: "Minutes/ of the / Friendship / Carpenters / Company / 1769" Friendship Carpenters' Company, Company Minutes, 29 Jan…
Date:
1770-1775
Minutes, 1769-1781
Description:
Carpenters' Company minutes of quarterly, annual, and special meetings, 1 Feb 1769 to 15 Oct 1781 with Warden's list of attendance and arrearages; receipts at rear; there is a gap in the minutes from 26 Apr 1776 to 23 Oct 1778.
Date:
1769-1781
Act of Incorporation and By-Laws and Miscellany, including Carpenters' Company Minutes, 1763-1768
Description:
Includes Minutes, Feb. 15, 1763 - April 18, 1768
Date:
1763-1768
Book of Common Prayer
Description:
Book of Common Prayer, of the Church of England, Published in 1763. Presented by Elizabeth H. Fisher. Bound in leather, embossed with gold. Encased in glass and metal box, book rests on embroidered red pillow.
Date:
1763
Item type:
Book of Common Prayer
East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania
Description:
Despite the handwritten date of 1740, this prospect was engraved in 1761 for the London Magazine, based on an original drawing made by George Heap in 1752 and published by Nicholas Scull in 1754 with the backing of William Penn. The largest and most…
Date:
1761