Manual Training High School, New York, Wood Turning & Pattern Shop
Circa 1900 Cabinet Card
New York City Manual Training Shop: Wood Turning and Pattern Shop.
Just look at those belt driven lathes in a High School Manual Arts Education wood shop! Wood shops such as these trained future pattern makers in precision wood turning and bench work, skills needed in the making of foundry patterns. Look closely and you can see the hand tool skills needed for a career in pattern making. Hand planes, chisels, hand saws, marking gauges, precision measuring instruments, tool grinding wheel. The pattern maker was and is the most highly skilled of wood workers.