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The Shakers
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Merchants Research Portal
Introduction
Merchant, a merchant is a business person who trades in commodities produced by other people in order to earn a profit. The status of t
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Pecan
The Tree
The Pecan is one of four of the commercially important pecan hickories, namely Sweet Pecan, Water Hickory (also called Bitter Pecan), Nutme
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Mortise and Tenon
History
This is an ancient joint dating back 7,000 years. The first examples, tusked joints, were found in a Archaeologists in Germany say they've us
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Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools
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Welcome to our Glossary of Woodworking Hand Tools. Feel free to edit and add "Hand Tools" to this research page. Please follow the gen
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Glossary of Woodworking Joints
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Wood Research Portal
Introduction
Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper, and
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Bald Cypress
The Tree
The Baldcypress is a well balanced and attractive, long lived tree which may grow to large size. It is one of the deciduous conifers. It gr
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Slash Pine
The Tree
The Slash Pine grows rapidly and is one of the most important and profitable of our southern yellow pines The name "slash" is given the tree
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Longleaf Pine
The Tree
The Longleaf Pine is one of the outstanding pines of the southern forests and one of the four southern yellow pines. It is a straight tree
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| 456 | 14. Juglans Cinerea Linnaeus Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume I plate 14 Reference: Plate_14.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1873 × 2711 Pixels) - Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_14.jpg. Accessed 27 Oct. 2019. |
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| 441 | 144. Taxus Brevifolia Nuttal Reference: The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/common.html. Accessed 30 Aug. 2019. |
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| 432 | 145. Torreya Californica Torrey Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume VI plate 145 Reference: Plate_145.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1862 × 2680 Pixels) - Scaled (34%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_145.jpg. Accessed 25 Aug. 2019. |
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| 386 | 168. Juniperus Occidentialis, Hook. Plate No. 168 Juniperus Occidentialis cross section plate. Reference: An Index to “The American Woods” by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/toc.html. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019. |
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| 264 | 1922 Detroit Store Smykowski Bros. Grocery, 1922, located 31st and Herbert Street, Detroit. This is a reduced-resolution photo scanned from original. On the left is Leo Smykowski in the center is Stefan Smykowski, the person on the right is unknown. The Smykowskis, Polish immigrants, ran three stores in Detroit, the last one closed in the early 1970s. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1922_Detroit_store.jpg Attribution: Billwhittaker at en.wikipedia [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)] |
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| 546 | 19th Century Knowledge Woodworking Adze And Axe 19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe Reference: "File:19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 26 Jan 2014, 23:25 UTC. 25 Jan 2020, 05:06 . Attribution: Chas. A. Strelinger & Company [Public domain] |
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| 548 | 19th Century Screwdriver The screwdriver, which began to appear regularly on the woodworker's bench after 1800, did not share the long evolution and tradition of other Anglo-American tool designs. The screwdriver in its early versions frequently had a scalloped blade for no other purpose than decoration. (Smithsonian photo 49794.) Reference: The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woodworking Tools, 1600–1900, by Peter C. Welsh. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27238/27238-h/27238-h.htm. Accessed 6 Feb. 2020. |
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| 427 | 242. Juniperus Pachyphloea Torr. Plate No. 242 Juniperus Pachyphloea (Torrey) cross section plate. Reference: An Index to “The American Woods” by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/toc.html. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019. |
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| 495 | 267. Hicoria Pecan (Britt.) Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume XI plate 267 Reference: The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text by Romeyn B. Hough. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/common.html. Accessed 28 Nov. 2019. |
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| 543 | 268. Myrica Cerifera L Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods, Volume XI plate 268 Reference: Plate_268.Jpg (JPEG Image, 1852 × 2711 Pixels) - Scaled (33%). https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/vlgimage/plate_268.jpg. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020. |