Ladder

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OBJECT TYPE: 17 Steps/Pointed
DATE: 1910
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2010.0288.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Grey painted wood and metal hardware.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 69.0 cm
Width: 4.0 cm
Height: 5.7 m
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Horticulture
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
City: Hemmingford

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: Unknown
Canada: These ladders were often built by local woodworking operations as part of their winter production line. This ladder was produced by a woodworking shop in Hemmingford, Quebec.
Function: The ladder was used for picking tree fruit.
Technical: The earliest ladders consisted of a long tapered form designed to lean into the tree. The two uprights were made of small diameter debarked trees such as cedars. The long straight grain of theses trees and their relative lightness once dry made them well suited to the use.The inside surfaces into which the rungs were let were planned to produce a flat surface. The rungs were either made of smaller diameter portions of similar tree stock with the top surface either left round or similarly planed.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None.
Missing: Nothing is missing.
Finish: Grey painted wood with metal hardware.
Decoration: None.

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Unknown Manufacturer, Ladder, circa 1910, Artifact no. 2010.0288, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2010.0288.001/

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