The Fascinating World of Early Tools & Trades: Selections From the Chronicle, edited by Emil and Martyl Pollak, published by Astragal Press, Mendham, NJ, 1991. 6 x 9 hardcover, 407 pages, ISBN 1-879335-00-X.

Please note this book is new, not used, with a new dust jacket.

Fifty-five fascinating and informative articles on early tools and trades, selected from the Journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years. They cover a wide variety of subjects including: first hand accounts of early craftsmen, pioneers, and travelers; lumber rafting down the Delaware River in 1896; inside America\'s largest tool store, Hammacher Schlemmer, in 1900; how tinsmiths used their tools; the bygone cobbler and clogmaker; cutting, hewing and squaring a beam; blacksmiths\' hammer signals; traditional soapmaking on the frontier; making horsehair sieves; the many uses of horn; education of apprentices in New England; household irons, spinning wheels and the hay burner; nail making in early Virginia; making barrels by hand; harvesting ice and delivering it to the consumer; old time fences, gathering sawdust, and the charcoal burner; building a New England home in 1831; early burglar tools; the wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris... and many more. Fully illustrated and indexed.

Contents:

• Preface, Elliot M.Sayward
• Introduction, Charles F. Hummel
• Hoofbeats of Destiny, Anna K. Cunningham
• Blacksmiths\' Hammer Signals, David G. Perch
• Shot Tower, G.A.R. Goyle
• A Double Twist Auger, Robert H. Carlson
• The Nail Making Industry in Early Virginia, John T. Keene, Jr.
• Metal Alloys
• The Old Babbit Ax Factory had a Quality Product, W. J. Starks
• The Spinning Wheel, William Ralph
• The Many Uses of Horn, Mary Earle Could
• Traditional Soap-Making on the Frontier, Per E. Guldbeck
• Irons, Charlotte Woodhull
• Horse Whips, Mary Moore
• Horsehair Sieves, Mary Earle Could
• The Old-Time Tanner, Jared van Wagenen
• Making Barrels By Hand, George L. Miner
• The Account Book of Terence Tracy, Charles Reichman
• The Wooden Leg of Gouvemeur Morris, Sigmund Epstein, MD
• Notes on Early Ohio Coffins and Their Makers, Rhea Mansfield Knittle
• A Southern Wheelwright, Stephen C. Wolcott
• How Tinsmiths Used Their Tools, John H. Demer
• The Bygone Cobbler, Jared van Wagenen
• The \'Mysterie\' of a Cordwainer, DA. Saguto
• The Clogmaker, David G. Perch
• James Wilson, Donald L. Tuttle and Joyce Bauduin
• Burning Brands or Marking Irons, John R. Grabb
• The Paper Industry, 1810-1860, Charles I. Foster
• Bookbinding in Colonial America, C. Clement Samford
• Ice from Nature to Consumer, Bob Siegel, Jr.
• The Salem Waterworks, Linda LeMieux
• Building A New England Home 1831, Lawrence B. Romaine
• Old Time Fences
• Hay Burners, Josephine H. Peirce
• From Bushkill to Easton on a Raft in 1896, Frank LeBar
• The Maine Woodsmen, Joseph Coburn Smith
• Winslow Homer’s Lumberman Print
• Cutting and Hewing Timber, Frank G. Bawden
• Hewing and Squaring a Beam, Douglass C. Reed
• The Crooked Knife, Newton C. Brainard
• How to Check the Set of an Adze Blade, Arthur E. Woodley
• The Charcoal Burner, Jared van Wagenen
• Gathering Sawdust, Jason Almus Russell
• Another Tool Classification, Harry Baer
• Tools and Equipment of the Early Settlers, W. L. Goodman
• Mr. Hewlett\'s Tool Chest, Jay Gaynor
• Education of New England Apprentices, William J. Little
• Journal of a Cabinet Maker\'s Apprentice, Winifred C. Gates
• Workshop Folklore in England, R. A. Salomon
• Eighteenth Century American Plane Makers, John S. Kebabian
• Thomas Granford of London ET AL, Paul B. Kebabian
• British Planemakers Before 1700, Matthew Carter
• All About Those \"Gunters,\" David A. Spang
• Carpenters\' and Engineers\' Slide Rules, Philip E. Stanley
• The English Carpenter\'s Rule and Ship Carpenter\'s Rule, Paul B. Kebabian
• The Country\'s Largest Tool Store, R. James Aber
• Truth in Advertising 1770-1776
• Index

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