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The Fascinating World of Early Tools & Trades

Fifty-five fascinating and informative articles on early tools and trades, selected from several thousand published in the journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years. Some written by experts, others the first hand accounts of early craftsmen, pioneers, and travellers, they cover a wide variety of subjects including:

Lumber rafting down the Delaware in 1896
How tinsmiths used their tools
The bygone cobbler and clogmaker
Cutting, hewing and squaring a beam
Blacksmiths' hammer signals
The many uses of horn
Nail making in early Virginia
Making barrels by hand
Harvesting ice - from nature to the consumer
Old time fences, gathering sawdust, & the charcoal burner
Traditional soap making on the frontier
Making horsehair sieves
Household irons, spinning wheels and the hay burner
Building a New England home in 1831

Code No. 007004, 424 pages, ISBN 187933500X, $40.00

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