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- Woodworking Vise -
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Woodworking Vise
- Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930 -
- 1915-1935
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Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930
- Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930 -
- 1915-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930
- Twist Auger with a Turned Handle, 1900-1920 - For centuries, the hands of carpenters, shipwrights, wheelwrights, coopers, and furniture and instrument makers, among others, have twisted a spiral auger bit into wood to create holes. We still use augers today, but power drills ease the burden of manually turning a bit.
- 1900-1920
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Twist Auger with a Turned Handle, 1900-1920
For centuries, the hands of carpenters, shipwrights, wheelwrights, coopers, and furniture and instrument makers, among others, have twisted a spiral auger bit into wood to create holes. We still use augers today, but power drills ease the burden of manually turning a bit.
- Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919 - Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- circa 1919
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Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919
Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- Letter from George C. Gebelein to J. Gregory Wiggins, April 29, 1937 - George Gebelein, a silversmith from Boston, Massachusetts, created the Scudder Memorial Trophy for St. Paul's School, a college preparatory school near Concord, New Hampshire. The rowing trophy was designed by John Wiggins, a well-known woodcarver. The school presents the trophy, first awarded in 1937, to the winner of the annual First Crew race between the school's Shattuck and Halcyon boat clubs.
- April 29, 1937
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Letter from George C. Gebelein to J. Gregory Wiggins, April 29, 1937
George Gebelein, a silversmith from Boston, Massachusetts, created the Scudder Memorial Trophy for St. Paul's School, a college preparatory school near Concord, New Hampshire. The rowing trophy was designed by John Wiggins, a well-known woodcarver. The school presents the trophy, first awarded in 1937, to the winner of the annual First Crew race between the school's Shattuck and Halcyon boat clubs.
- Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891 - As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- 1891
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Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891
As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- Moving Filester, 1868-1874 -
- 1868-1874
- Collections - Artifact
Moving Filester, 1868-1874
- "You Can Make It for Profit," U.S. Department of Commerce Wood Utilization Bulletin, 1931 -
- 1931
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"You Can Make It for Profit," U.S. Department of Commerce Wood Utilization Bulletin, 1931
- Tenoning Machine, Used by the Rowe Wagon and Carriage Shop, circa 1887 -
- circa 1887
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Tenoning Machine, Used by the Rowe Wagon and Carriage Shop, circa 1887