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Trend & Tradition

Title Uncommon Knowledge
Issue Volume 02, Number 04 (T&T, Autumn 2017)
Description Without the means of producing accurate reproductions of historical artifacts, many museums and institutions call upon the Historic Trades of Colonial Williamsburg for help. CW partnered with the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia to recreate George Washington's camp bed, with Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, Pennsylvania to replicate the original weathervanes, and various ordinary items for the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown.
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Pages 24-25