Identifier: catalogueofha961903hamp (find matches)
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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d labor to those working for credit to enter theDay or Trade School. Those who fail to give satisfaction, whether as trades-men or laborers, will not be retained. Huntington Industrial Works. These works comprise three departments ; the saw-mill and lumber yard, the planing mill, and the carpenterand cabinet shop. The saw mill is equipped with a band saw, with steamfeed and conveying rolls, and automatic trimmer andslasher; employs about twenty-five men and saws an-nually six million feet of lumber. This is brought to themill in rafts, and after sawing is kiln-dried and shipped tovarious markets. The planing mill, with its equipment of saws, planers,matching, and moulding machines, is engaged in the manu-facture of mouldings, flooring, ceiling, siding, and otherhouse furnishings for the general market, and employsabout fifteen men. The carpenter and cabinet shop employs about tenworkmen, and is engaged in the manufacture of windowand door frames, sash, doors, mantels, scroll work, and
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II AM P T ON I N S T I T U T E 57 other interior and exterior finish, stair work, cabinet work,and, as chests, bookcases, tables, &c. It has an equipment oflathes, circular, jig and band saws, buzz and pony planers,boring, mortising and tenoning machines, cabinet benchesand tools. Yellow and white pine, poplar and hard woods areused. Carpenter and Repair Shop. This shop is supplied with general carpenters tools,circular and small saws, upright moulder and mortisingmachine and employs about twelve workmen. It has charge of the general repair work of the build-ings, of which there are upwards of fifty, and of the furnitureconnected therewith; manufactures new work;—as easychairs, desks, tables and other cabinet work, and does aportion of the new building. Pierce Machine Shop. This comprises three departments, the general machineshop, the wood shop, and the blacksmith shop. The twoformer are run by a forty horse power, Corliss engine. These shops are engaged in the manufacture of c

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