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Six different trades: gold-beating, weaving, carpentry, umbrella-making, pharmacy and locksmithing. Coloured etching.
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The youthful Christ helps Joseph with his carpentry; Mary and Anne look on. Lithograph by A. Dircks, 1849, after C. Müller.
Müller, Karl, 1818-1899.Date: 1 June 1849Reference: 24067i- Books
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A treatise on carpentry. In which are contain'd the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more exact method than has yet been made publick. Explain'd by twenty-eight copper-plates. By Francis Price.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: 1733- Books
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The carpenter's new guide: being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaister Groins, Niches of every Description, Sky-Lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes, with a great Variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, &c.;-Stair-Cases and Hand-Rails of various Constructions; Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c.; and Raking Mouldings; with many other Things entirely new. The whole founded on true geometrical principles; the Theory and Practice well explained, and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author. Including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber. By Peter Nicholson.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A specimen of ancient carpentry, consisting of variety of designs for roofs, ... collected by James Smith ... to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, ... & other useful decorations never before published by Jones the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates ...
Smith, James, writer on carpentry.Date: 1736- Archives and manuscripts
Colour slides, including home management; industrialtasks; calculating wages; carpentry; assembly; mechanical/electrical work; printing. Some labelled Downview and Fairdene
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/RKF/B.17/2/17Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
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A specimen of ancient carpentry, consisting of designs for roofs, exemplify'd in common, circular, mixt, spiral, and such which have been fram'd in public and private antique buildings. By the late Mr, [sic] James Smith. To which is added mouldings for cornices, door and window jambs.
Smith, James, writer on carpentry.Date: [1787]- Books
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The British carpenter: or, a treatise on carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, In a more Useful and Extensive Method, than has been made Publick. The second edition enlarged, with an addition of sixteen copper-plates. By Francis Price.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Pictures
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Saint Joseph practises carpentry assisted by the Christ Child, while Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) sews. Engraving by J. Couché, 1786, after Annibale Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: 1786Reference: 10434iPart of: Galerie du Palais Royal.- Books
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The British carpenter: or, a treatise on carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, In A more Useful and Extensive Method, than has been made publick. The sixth edition, corrected, and illustrated with sixty-two copper-plates. By Francis Price, Late Surveyor to the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and Author of a Series of Observations on that admirable Structure.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The British carpenter: or, a treatise on carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, In a more Useful and Extensive Method, than has been made Publick. The fourth edition enlarged, and illustrated with sixty-two copper-plates. By Francis Price, Late Surveyor to the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and Author of a Series of Observations on that admirable Structure.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Pictures
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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an Argentinian exhibit relating to manual skills education, showing classroom seating, carpentry tools and student work. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572269iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Books
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The British carpenter: or, a treatise on carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, In a more Useful and Extensive Method, than has been made Publick. The third edition enlarged, and illustrated with sixty-two copper-plates. By Francis Price, Late Surveyor to the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and Author of a Series of Observations on that admirable Structure.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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The British carpenter: or, a treatise on carpentry. Containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, In A more Useful and Extensive Method, than has been made publick. The fifth edition, corrected, and illustrated with sixty-two copper-plates. By Francis Price, Late Survey or to the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and Author of a Series of Observations on that admirable Structure.
Price, Francis, -1753.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing Jambs, the Preparing and Making their Soffits. Rules of carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, Straight or Curved. -- Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. -- Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their General and Particular Parts. -- Glewing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails; Fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cielings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the Newest Taste. -- With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemens' and Farm-Houses, Yards, Barns, &c. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Mechanick exercises: or, the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of smithing, joinery, carpentry, and turning. By Joseph Moxon, late Member of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to King Charles II. The third edition, with an addition of the bricklayers, plaisterers, and masons trades.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.Date: 1701- Books
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The carpenter and joiner's assistant; containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: 1797- Books
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The carpenters companion: being an accurate and compleat treatise of carpenters works; In which is contained Various Sorts of Timber-Floors, Partitions, Bridges, and especially Roofs; with their Manner of Framing, Trussing, &c. made easy to all concerned in Building; but more particularly to Carpenters; To which is added, The Five Orders of Architecture, in a more easy and concise Method than any yet Published. Exemplified in forty-one copper-plates; with remarks and descriptions. By James Smith.
Smith, James, writer on carpentry.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A panegyrick upon the most honourable, ancient and excellent art of wright-craft. By Ja. Donaldson.
Donaldson, James, active 1697-1713.Date: 1713- Books
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Prices of carpenters work, submitted to the public.
Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, ... The whole correctly engraved, on 104 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, an estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, ... By William Pain, ...
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1781- Pictures
Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Architecture: various types of roof truss. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Cabinet-making: a sideboard and cellaret. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
Whitaker, H., active 1848.Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 41324i