Subject

False-work

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#1: Keim house and ancillary building, NE perspective view (c.1990)

Photos 1002.01.010

Root cellar restoration and Exhibit Shelter

Keim · c.1990

Image #1 is from Frame # 12 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, all various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. This view of Keim house ("quoin" corner detail, right in photo), sod-covered vaulted "root cellar", center-foreground, and gabled ancillary building, which included a wood turner's shop in the 18th century. Image #4, photo KH4,

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Temporary shoring ["centering"] frame supporting DeTurk cellar vault (2009)

Photos 1001.01.226

Temporary centering frame for vault arch

DeTurk · 07/21/2009

Temporary shoring [”centering” {1}] frame supporting root cellar vault during restoration of vault abutment wall. This is the upper segment with a sheet of plywood ”scribed” to the ”intrados”{2}. FOOTNOTE {1} "Centering" (“false-work” in early usage) is the term customarily applied to the timber frame supporting an arch or vault during construction until

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