1800
Box has no number but rather titled "Architecture Societies, Associations, etc of joiners, carpenters, & architects; builders pricebooks & rules of work catalogs"
GUSN-390175
The "Rules of Work, of the Carpenters, in the town of Boston. Formed, and most Accurately Corrected, by a Large Number of the First Workmen of the Town", 1800, is a small, 3 1/2" x 6", instruction manual / handbook with marbled cover.
Contents include:
Frontispiece
intentionally blank page
"Introduction "2 pages
"At a meeting of the Carpenters of the Town of Boston at Marean's Hall, August 21, 1800" 1 page. This includes a listing of the 21 men who voted "who drew up the Rules of Work" the page includes signature of the committee secretary.
"the Rules of Work, of the Carpenters" pages 7-32
"Index" pages 33-34
8 intentional blank pages
builders' guides
booklets
printed ephemera
booklets
printed ephemera
builders' guides
1 folder
AR001
General architectural and cartographic collection
AR001.USMA.0250.022
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Committe for the Carpenters of the Town of Boston (Carpenter)
booklets
printed ephemera
builders' guides
Committe for the Carpenters of the Town of Boston
This item is fragile, cannot lay flat, and requires support when viewing.
Item
Box has no number but rather titled "Architecture Societies, Associations, etc of joiners, carpenters, & architects; builders pricebooks & rules of work catalogs"
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