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Ladder

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Archives 1002.01.094

Keim workshop Step Ladder

Keim · mid 1700s

The step ladder{a] in the Keim wood-turner's shop "ancillary" building ascends from the first floor above the embanked cellar to the loft. {a} In the 18th century "step ladder" meant a stair constructed of board treads joined (usually mortised-through) to the parallel raking "strings" or "stringers". This was usually distinguished from a "ladder", which c

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Photos 1002.01.034

Step Ladder to Loft

Keim Farmstead · August 1958

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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