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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e various buildings, some sixty inall that belong to the Institute, a plan which provides as good anopportunity of applying the trade as could well be found. Enoughwill be given in this course to enable the student to become an in-telligent painter of houses; and instruction will be given besides,to a limited extent, in graining, hard-wood finishing, kalsomining and frescoing. . The theory of paints, their manufacture and adulteration, andlessons on themixture and harmony of colors will be given as timemay permit. II a M P T on ins T I T I T E 7 Carriage Painting may be taken if desired. In this as in the carpentry and painting course theBricklaying greatest stress will be laid on plain house work, in-and eluding foundations, walls, arches, and chimneys. Plastering: The course of instruction is as follows.— Bricklaying.—Proper use of the ordinary bricklay-er s tools; making mortar beds and boards, building scaffoldsscreening sand, slacking lime, use of coloring material, selecting
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Class in Bricklaying brick, choice of lime and sand, spreading mortar, use of cement,cleaning brick; brick pavement, laying foundations with footingsusing bond rod, English and Flemish ; use of stretcher, headershalfheaders, rowlocks, and ties ; laying piers, setting window anddoor frames ; laying pressed-brick front, trimming joints with point-ing trowel and straight ed^e ; laying off and building arches, square,banded, gothic, circular, and inverted ; building chimneys and stacks,square, round, and octagon ; ornamental work, terra-cotta and tilework; laying drain pipes, culverts, wells, and cisterns; cleaning 72 CATALOGUE OF walls with acid; setting bake oven and boiler; fireplace work, andarched roof work, barrel and dome. Plastering.— Making mortar and putty, use of hair; lathing;plastering walls and ceilings : plastering to grounds and to finish;scratch coating, second and third coating; floating, hard finish,sand finish; stucco work ; and running cornice. Lectures will include

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