- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenence
- origin unknown, garden tools of Alton Cardinal, then Peter Cardinal
- note
- normal hoe reshaped by wear and filing by Alton Cardinal over decades of use
- disposition
- currently owned as of August 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- built by Alton Cardinal 1928-1929, household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#desk
Desk
The desk was made by me as a manual training class project in West High School, Green Bay, Wisconsin, during the school year 1928-29, the first year in the new building. Mr. Leaonard F. Stacker was the teacher.
The desk has a flat top on tapered legs. There is one wide drawer. Lumber species is butternut, stained walnut color. Dimensions: 29 inches high, 30 inches wide, and 18 inches deep.
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown
- note
- used with toy barn
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- gift of Un Hi Lee Kang to Beatrice Cardinal, later household of Peter Cardinal
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- provenance
- gift of Un Hi Lee Kang to Beatrice Cardinal, later household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- "New Year's Celebration" and "Traditional Wedding Ceremony"
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown, then household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- maker_mark
- (front) "REESE", (back) "REESE PADLOCK CO. / LANCASTER, PA. / U.S.A."
- disposition
- currently owned as of August 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown, household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal prior to 1955
- note
- measures temperature and humidity
- maker_mark
- "Taylor", "Humidiguide"
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2015
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, purchased early 1960s
- note
- note lacing through the frames
- note
- AF&H was American Hoe and Fork
- maker_mark
- "[AF]H CO WALLINGFORD VT US"
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of July 2016
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Ferslev
- provenance
- purchased by Niels and Clara Ferslev in 1919 for their daughter Beatrice
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#child_chairs
Child Chairs
The four chairs have interesting histories.
The green straight chair was bought by her parents for my wife, Beatrice Ferslev, when she was four years old (in 1919). It was used specifically for her to sit on in the one-seated family automobile while her older sister sat between the parents and the younger sister sat on mother's lap.
The other three chairs were given to me after my *cousin's children outgrew them (about 1915). The training chair was a brown color – stain and varnish –; we never had the tray. The "kitchen" chair was red enamel. I remember the rocker as yellow – probably a stained or natural finish. When Uncle Abe Frei brought the training chair from Spokane, Washington, out to the ranch on Indian Prairie, he was embarassed; so he put it in a burlap bag. I named the chairs for ranch horses –
Major
(training chair),Queen
(kitchen), andFlo
(rocker) and drove them with string lines. The chair backs and rear legs still show the wear from being dragged across the floor. I still refer to them by name.* Eva Cady Robinson - disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2007
- category
- art
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal for Beatrice Cardinal in 1994
- maker_mark
- autograph notations by artist "Birch", "ALC", "1994"
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2005
- category
- art
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal date unknown, household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- condition
- very good
- disposition
- currently owned as of June 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#billfold
Billfold and $1 Bill
Owned by Gilbert H. Cardinal. [Large size bill; 1923 silver certificate.]
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- officetools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- purchased by Alton Cardinal probably about 1933, household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- marked "ALTON CARDINAL" in ink on surface
- condition
- good
- disposition
- currently owned as of June 2014
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- acquired by Alton Cardinal between 1927 and 1931, later workshop of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_2
Shop Tools
Acquired by me during high school years (1927-31) or before.
- Work bench (made for me by my father)
- Vise
-
Claw hammer
(marked
Alty
on handle) - Push drill (
Mr. Punch
) - Auger bits for brace (6/16″, 8/16″, 10/16″)
- Countersink bit
- Twist bit (¼)
- Brace
- Marking guage
- Try square
- Large screw driver (square shank, wood handle) (bought for me by my Uncle Sam Cardinal)
- Screw driver set (3 in 1)
- Wooden handle containing may tools
- Jack plane
- Carpenter chisels (½″ ¾″)
- Spoke shave
- Hand cranked grinder
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- stayed with Reed Street house 2022
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- acquired by Alton Cardinal between 1927 and 1931
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_2
[text shown above] - disposition
- unknown, may have been stolen winter 1992 from cabin at woods
- note
- hand-written comment on theft report indicates brace was broken by that time