5 minManufacturingTin Plate and the TinkerExamples of stretching. Photo by Mary Earle Gould. Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 4 No. 2, April 1951 by Gillian W.B. Bailey Although...
7 minManufacturingThe Forming Machine: How the manufacturing of hats went from 6 to 600 per dayFigure 1. A selection of hats on display at the Stockport, England, Hat Museum, Hat Works. As you can see, felt can be "blocked" into a...
2 minManufacturingA Brickyard in New EnglandExcerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 1979) By Daniel B. Reibel This little scene, frozen in time between 1895 and 1900,...
6 minManufacturingJames Wilson, Pennsylvania ChairmakerBy Donald L. Tuttle and Joyce Baudin, Illustrations by Linda Scharf-Jones Chairmaking in small shops in eastern Pennsylvania reached its...
15 minManufacturingThe Black ArtePit under construction, taken about 1915 in the western part of Massachusetts. From The Chronicle Volume XII, No. 1, March 1959 by Eloise...
3 minManufacturingManufacture of Tacks, Brads & SprigsReed's "one operation" nail machine. From The Chronicle, Volume 1, No. 3 March 1934 By Earle T. Goodnow The following information was...