- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- property of Gilbert Cardinal by 1920, then workshop of Alton Cardinal, then workshop of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
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OldThings.html#shop_tools_1
Shop Tools
These tools belonged to my father prior to 1920. Some of them came from my grandfather who died in 1913.
- anvil
- Cold chisels, punch
- Rachet brace
- Ships auger bit
- Small claw hammer
- Carpenter's square (2′)
- Two hand saws (cross cut)
- Oil stone
- Block plane
- Carpenter level (wooden)
- Carpenter chisel (⅜″)
- maker_mark
- FISHER
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- at least one property of Gilbert Cardinal by 1920, then workshop of Alton Cardinal, then workshop of Peter Cardinal
- note
- it is no longer clear which tools have which provenance
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_1
[text shown above] - disposition
- stayed with Reed Street house 2022
- 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
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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 and combine
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady, discarded due ot sharp edges after being broken
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenence
- household of Alton Cardinal (1926), then Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, then Peter Cardinal
- title
- The History of the American People
- author
- Charles A. Beard and William C. Bagley
- publication
- New York: The Macmillan Company. 1924.
- note
- flyleaf inscribed with price "1.32", name "Alton Lyle Cardinal", and date "Feb. 1st, 1926"
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2017
- 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
- provenance
- property of Lillie Roy Strahl Whipple, around 1900
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#pen_stamp
Combination Pen, Pencil, Stamp
Mrs Frank Whipple
probably 1900
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- unknown, believed to have been from household of Lillie and Gilbert Cardinal, then household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- used as a gardening/potting fork
- condition
- very good, rusting, one tine lost small part at tip
- disposition
- owned as of July 2016
- category
- officetools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenence
- purchased by Alton Cardinal possibly around 1933, household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- marked "Alton Cardinal Green Bay, Wis." in calligraphy on case
- maker_mark
- "K&ECO" on case, "Keuffel & Esser Co." "N.Y." "Pat. 1,875,927" "Made in U.S.A." and "<40970>"
- condition
- good
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2018
- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- tools of Gilbert Cardinal prior to 1920, then tools of Alton Cardinal, then tools of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#field_tools
Field Tools
These tools belonged to my father, Gilbert Cardinal, prior to 1920. Most of them were probably in 1917 when we moved onto a farm at Oneida, Wisconsin.
- Double-bitted axe (handle replaced about 1965)
- Scythe
- Wooden hand hay rake (I turned replacement teeth in 1985)
- Garden spade
- Two three-tined pitch forks
- Corn knife
- Post hole digger
- Buck saw
- Lantern
- Short-handled square shovel (this was discarded by C&NW Ry in 1920's)
- disposition
- unknown