An early project of the Historic Ironwork Fund has been to digitally repair and restore some of the oldest original drawings from the shop of Samuel Yellin.

The ongoing project involves digitizing the drawings as they are. The fragments are then digitally cleaned-up and reassembled. In some cases, as shown here, the pieces are also 'mirrored' to fill in missing segments.

These drawings were among many related graphics and items conveyed to George Dixon, during the course of his employment at Samuel Yellin Metalworkers, by the granddaughter of Samuel Yellin, Ms. Clare Yellin. The graphics, tools and related items are now part of the Samuel Yellin Historic Tool & Graphic Preservation Project which is sponsored by the.Historic Ironwork Fund and individuals throughout the artist-blacksmith community.

Do you want to see an example of the preservation process?

Here too, is a gallery of preserved images from the earliest years of America's greatest master of forged art metalwork,Samuel Yellin

The "OnLine Workshop Series". This series of workshops deals with the history of Samuel Yellin's shop, its tools, work practices, motifs and accomplishments.

It's 1925, you are in Philadelphia, on Arch Street....

From the Samuel Yellin Historic Tool & Graphic Preservation Project.

The Samuel Yellin Historic Tool & Graphic Preservation Project is actively restoring and recording the tooling and graphic collection. Elements of the collection have been freely displayed and/or published since 1993.

Another project of The Historic Ironwork Fund has been digitizing and cataloging late 19th and early 20th century graphic images of older ironwork and tools.

Both the Gallery section and The OnLine Workshop Series. of Artist-Blacksmith.org displays a growing online collection of these images.

This site, Artist-Blacksmith.org, as well as the related preservation and educational projects are made possible by contributions from folks like you.

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