Modern machine-shop practice partially used as scrapbook, 1887-1910
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (67 pages) ; 35 cm
- Additional Creators
- Rose, Joshua
- Restrictions on Access
- Unrestricted access.
- Summary
- This item consists of newspaper clippings pasted onto the leaves of a leather-bound reference book, Modern Machine-Shop Practice, by Joshua Rose published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1887. The book measures 350x260mm and has 67 leaves with more than 3,000 engravings. Ten of the leaves have been used as a scrapbook and are covered with newspaper clippings from the Evening News of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Three of these scrapbook leaves contain clippings from 1910 concerning the Franklin Elk's Nineteen-Ten Minstrels.
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- Genre(s)
- Provenance
- John C. O'Connor with Ralph Yeager founded and co-owned the Tavern Restaurant in State College, Pennsylvania, which was well-known for the art works on display. He, his wife, and Yeager established endowments to maintain the John C. O'Connor and Ralph Yeager Collection of art and artifacts. This item was from that collection.
- Note
- In Historical Collections and Labor Archives, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#XXXX-1162H)
- Biographical or Historical Sketch
- Joshua Rose authored the Modern Machine-Shop Practice (1887-1888), Practical Machine Shop (1920), and Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught (1891). Nothing is known about the compiler of the scrapbook.
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