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Color photographic print showing detail of the southwest perspective view of the Keim ancillary building during restoration of the southeastern gable wall window. Details include: brick segmental relieving arches; random rubble masonry.
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Color photographic print showing detail of the south elevation view of the Keim ancillary building. Note that the eastern range of the Keim Federal era addition to the 1753 house and 1930s porch can be seen in the left of this photo. Details include: brick segmental relieving arch; 19th-century paneled shutters above porch
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Frame # 16 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, Keim ancillary building, north gable end, from a set of various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. Gable-end elevation view of Keim ancillary building. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arches, casement windows, wall-plate ties at eaves level of gable-end.
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Frame #5 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, Keim ancillary building, ground-floor gable-end "Dutch" door, from a set of various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. Keim ancillary building gable-end doorway. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arch, brick infill, two-leaf (Dutch) door, oak jambs and lintel.
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Clipping from an unknown newspaper showing the Keim Ancillary Building (formerly called a "cabin" under the speculation that it had been a Keim "settler's" dwelling preceding the 1753 house) and including a very brief history of the building. Later research determined a construction date of c.1753 and a determination that it was a multi-function farmstead "a
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Digital image of Keim ancillary building (formerly called a “Cabin”) from original photographic print from a HABS survey. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arch, casement window, central chimney, two-leaf (Dutch) door, 19th century dovecote and slate roof. Original HABS caption for the image is as follows: "Historic American Buildin
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Keim ancillary workshop structure, halftone image from photo, with descriptive caption, published in the "Dutchman," Winter, 1954, page 18. Brick arches shown are "relieving" elements when properly constructed to transfer structural loads to the masonry abutments flanking the door and windows. Stonework is laid in random-rubble masonry method. Detail
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Digital image of Keim ancillary workshop building from original photographic print showing south gable elevation and eastern eaves wall. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arches, casement window, central chimney, two-leaf ("Dutch") door, 19th century Dovecote [or Bell tower?] and slate roof Original HABS caption for the image is a
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Photo and sketch of the Keim multi-purpose ancillary structure [formerly considered a “Cabin”] from an article written by James A. Lewars, entitled "Pennsylvania German Kicked Roofs," published on page 12 in the Winter, 1981 issue of the ‘Historical Review of Berks County." Image and text from the original article focus on the techniques used in the construc
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Digital image of Keim ancillary building (formerly called a “Cabin”) from original photographic print showing northwest perspective view. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arch, brick infill, casement window, central chimney, two-leaf (Dutch) door, 19th century cupola or ”dovecote”, 19th century slate roof, stone steps descending ban
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Digital image from original photographic print showing a southwest perspective view of the Keim House and the ancillary building to the right, which housed a wood turner’s shop and other activity associated with the farmstead; Victorian-style porch shown along house wall range, wrapping along west gable wall and south eaves wall and set on stone piers butted
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Frame #3 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, Keim ancillary building, from a set of various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arches, brick infill, casement windows, clay-tile roof, center chimney, wall-plate ties.
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Step ladder{1} to loft, interior of Keim wood-turner's shop and multiple-purpose ["ancillary"] building: Digital photographic images showing interior detail views of step ladder. FOOTNOTE:{1} The 1786 Rule Book of the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia prescribed [p.22] a price "per foot lineal" for "Step ladders, made of boards." This ascending carriage
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