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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, $100.00

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