Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 13 No. 4, December 1960 by Robert Mitchell The shoemaker’s bench shown in figure I came from the Shaker Colony in New Lebanon, New York. It is fully equipped with tools of the craft and the one drawer pulled out contains shoe pegs. It is rather unusual for a bench …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Volume 3 Nos. 6 & 7, January & April 1946 by Wm. H. MacDonald Chairmaking in small shops in central New Jersey reached its peak shortly after the middle of the Nineteenth Century and before the close of the century had given way completely to the competition of mass production and …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 14 No. 4, December 1961 by Ruth Lessey TIN ovens were legion during the days of fireplace cooking. They were of many types and many sizes from the large tin kitchen with its turn-spit that took care of the large joints and fowls to the small roasting ovens such as …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Volume 28, No. 1, March 1975 by Norman R. Ball Probable identification of one of the “Whatsits” items in the September 197 4 issue of the Chronicle has been supplied by the Journal of a Scotch minister who taught school in Upper Canada during the 1830s. After noting the surprisingly large …