Descriptive summary
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creator:
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Chandler, George W. (1831-1918) |
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title:
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Papers |
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dates:
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1851-1971, n.d. |
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extent:
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2.93 linear ft. (3 document boxes and 1 oversize
box) |
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collection number:
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MS
95 |
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repository:
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Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.
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Administrative
information
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access:
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Open for research
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publication rights:
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Consult Head, Special Collections Department
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preferred
citation:
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George W. Chandler Papers, MS 95, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
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Biographical
note
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Master potter and an
inventor, George W. Chandler was born in 1831 and died in 1918. His
wife, Elizabeth Jane Moore, whom he married in 1856, was born in
1837 and died in 1906. Although his home was in Moingona, Iowa, and
later Des Moines, Iowa, he found work in a number of other Midwest
potteries in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. In Iowa he worked and ran
the Moingona Pottery works with Sylvester H. Deering
(1875-1877).Together they invented and patented a fencepost holder
in 1877. Chandler also invented and patented an Improved Railroad
Tie and made ceramic shoe heels. He became a Master Mason in Dundee,
N.Y., in 1855 and continued to be active in the Masons in Iowa.
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Collection description
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| This collection
(1851-1971, n.d.)
contains advertisements, bill receipts, correspondence,
genealogy, journals, newsclippings, photographs, report
cards, and ledgers. The bulk of
these papers consists of correspondence to family and
friends as well as business correspondence concerning
pottery orders. There are also records pertaining to the
Iowa Mason's Benevolent Society, and information about
Chandler's inventions. A
sample ceramic shoe heel made by Chandler is housed in the
artifact collection. |
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Container list
Full finding aid
(pdf format) with container list.
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