Framing Element for High Altar Gates, National Cathedral
date: label: date made
content: 1928-1971
notes: label: Description
content: T-shaped element made from a short square bar tenoned through a larger rectangular crosspiece and peened at top. Opposite end of the square bar is punched with a circular hole, while the crosspiece has two rectangular slots or through mortises running front to back at one end and two offset rectangular pockets or blind mortises at top and bottom of the other end. Yellow chalk marks across one side of crosspiece.
label: Description
content: Maker is Keyser Brothers Iron Works, 4041 Ridge Ave. in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA, 1928-1971. Run by James Moore Bryant Keyser (1902-1977) and master blacksmith Howard Keyser III (1904-1980). Specialized in residential and ecclesiastical ornamental wrought ironwork, including the High Altar Gates in the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. The forge was housed in an 1850s stone industrial complex that was dismantled in 1971 (documented by HABS/HAER).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Germantown
label: used
content: United States: District of Columbia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Howard Keyser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.72.0024A
label: catalog number
content: 72.0024A
label: accession number
content: 299610
objectType: label: Object Name
content: element, framing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 16 1/8 in x 8 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 40.9575 cm x 21.2725 cm