General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology

2011 GENERAL TOOLS AWARD

Richard K. Anderson, Jr. - General Tools Award 2011


General Tools Award Plumb Bob
(Photograph by Peter Harper, General Tools & Instruments)
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The General Tools Award is the highest honor the SIA can bestow. The award recognizes individuals who have given sustained, distinguished service to the cause of industrial archeology and is presented at the SIA’s annual business meeting.

The General Tools Award was established in 1992 through the generosity of Gerald Weinstein [SIA], chairman of the board of General Tools & Instruments Co. LLC, and the Abraham and Lillian Rosenberg Foundation.  The Rosenbergs founded General Hardware, the predecessor to General Tools.  The award consists of a citation, a commissioned sculpture (“The Plumb Bob”), and a cash award. Previous recipients are Emory Kemp (1993), Robert Vogel (1994), Edward Rutsch (1995), Patrick Malone (1996), Margot Gayle (1997), Helena Wright (1998), Vance Packard (1999), Eric DeLony (2000), Robert Merriam (2001) and Charles Parrott (2002), Alex Barbour (2003), Charlie Hyde (2004), Lance Metz (2005), no award made in 2006, Patrick Martin (2007), Chris Andreae (2008), Carol Poh (2009), Robert Gordon (2010). 

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