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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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tudents and has the ordinary outfit of tools and appliances. All the harness work of the school is done in A, to order for outside customers, and repair work is done This shop does all the painting connected with thePaint Shop buildings on the premises, both exterior and in- terior work, kalsomming and paper hanging ; als o the painting.and Employment is given to about ten men. This department employs about eight or ten stu-rlachineShop dents and carries on a general repaii-and jobbingbusiness for the other departments of the schooand the surrounding community. All repairs to brick work, setting boilers, repairing Bricklaying flues and bake ovens, making and laying of grano- an°- lithic walks, plastering old or new buildings, comes Plastering under this department. About ten or fifteen stu- Department dentg are empioyed. This year they are to lay nearly a million bricks in the addition to Virginia Hall, one of the largest buildings on the school grounds. A M PT ON , n S T I T V TE 83
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-CATALO GUE OF The above industries except tinsmithing are carried on in con-nect ion with the reguiar Trade School Department and are man-aged by the teachers of the same. The works comprise three departments-the saw-Huntington.n-mill and lumber yard, the planing mill, and thedustrial Works carpenter and cabinet shop. The sawmill is equipped with a band saw,,steam feed and conveying rolls, and automatic trimmer and sasher in? is kiln-dried and shipped to various markets. g The planing mill, with its equipment of saws, planers, match-ing and moulding machines, is engaged in the -nu-ture oMouldings, flooring, ceiling, siding, and other house finishings forthe general market, and employs about fifteen men. Th carpenter and cabinet shop employs about twentyf work-up, and is engaged in the manufacture of window.nd door Trampssashes, doors, mantels, scroll work, and other inteno r and ex tenorfinish stair work, and cabinet work, chests, bookcases, tables, etcR has an equipment of lathes, c

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