![2022 General Tools Award Winner - Louise Trottier](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/louise-trottier-web-banner-470x140.jpg)
LOUISE TROTTIER Louise Trottier is the recipient of the 2022 Society for Industrial Archeology General Tools Award. The General Tools Award is the highest honor…
![2021 General Tools Award Winner - Vern Mesler](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/general-tools-award-web-banner-470x140.jpg)
Vern Mesler is the recipient of the 2021 Society for Industrial Archeology General Tools Award. The General Tools Award is the highest honor that the…
![2020 General Tools Award Winner - Brian Shovers](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Brian-Shovers-GTA-Award-2020-470x140.jpg)
Brian Shovers is the recipient of the 2020 Society for Industrial Archeology General Tools Award. The General Tools Award is the highest honor that the SIA…
![General Tools Award 2019 - David Simmons](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/David-Simmons-General-Tools-Award.jpg)
Caption for above photo: 2019 General Tools Award Recipient David Simmons, left, with former SIA President Duncan Hay of the award committee. The General Tools…
![General Tools Award 2018 - Fred Quivik](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fred-Quivik-GTA-470x140.jpg)
Fred Quivik, 2018 Recipient of the General Tools Award (left), with committee chair Jet Lowe at the SIA Annual Business Meeting in Richmond, Va. Fred Quivik has…
![General Tools Award 2017 - Patrick Harshbarger](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Patrick-Harshbarger-GTA-470x140.jpg)
Patrick Harshbarger, 2017 Recipient of the General Tools Award (left), with committee chairman Bob Frame. The recipient for the 2017 General Tools Award is a…
![General Tools Award 2016 - Duncan Hay](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Duncan-Hay-GTA-470x140.jpg)
Duncan Hay (left) receives the General Tools Award from Charles Parrott at the 2016 SIA Annual Business Meeting in Kansas City. Duncan Hay is among…
![General Tools Award 1995 - Edward Rutsch](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/edrutsch-276x140.gif)
EDWARD S. RUTSCH 1936-2003 ED’S FRIEND, HERB GITHENS, WROTE THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY Edward S. Rutsch the renowned industrial archeologist died Sunday at the age of…
![General Tools Award 2013 - Robert Frame](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/generaltoolsaward750x3801-470x140.jpg)
Bob Frame – 2013 SIA General Tools Award Recipient Carol Poh presenting the 2013 General Tools Award to Bob Frame Photograph by Dennis Furbush This…
![General Tools Award 2012 - Jane Mork Gibson](https://www.sia-web.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/JaneMorkGibson-329x140.gif)
Photograph by Ann Cullen This year’s recipient of the General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology has made significant contributions to the documentation,…