4 minAgricultureButter ChurnsExcerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. II, No. 10, June 1939 By William S. Sprague A churn has been defined as "a vesÂsel in which milk or...
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 beÂtween 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...
6 minHistoricalCraftsmanship and Art in an Early Tool ChestThe following is excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. VI, No. 2, April 1953 By W. Parker Crutchfield "The man who built that must have been...
3 minHistoricalBaby WalkersPlate 1 Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 1960 by Edward Durrell Perhaps you could not call a baby walker a tool but it...
2 minCollecting'Whatsits'By John Verrill, Executive Director, Early American Industries Association One of the pleasures of working in the EAIA office is getting...