Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 36 No. 2, June 1983 by Ann Wing Francis Nicholson, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, is probably the best known American planemaker. Much information about him has appeared in The Chronicle of The Early American Industries Association. He apparently was the first to engage in the planemaking trade in Anglo-America. His son, …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XVI no. 1, March 1963 by Mary Earle Gould Corn has been credited to the Indians of America. It was a species of grass growing wild and cultivated by the Indians and introduced to the Colonists when they came to America. It was called Indian corn and maize. It was …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XI no. 4, December 1958 by Laurence A. Johnson Recently I was browsing through several old copies of the Wolcott New York, Lakeshore News, and I ran across an advertisement in the October 22, 1874 issue for “The Great American Meat and Vegetable Cutter.” This is shown in figure 1. …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. II No. 2, November, 1937 by Lawrence B. Romaine In glancing through Fortune Magazine the other day, I marvelled at the remarkable color work in the advertisements, the soft tones and the realistic effects. My eye wandered off the page and caught the Mail Stage and Steam-Boat broadside on the …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XIII No. 3, September 1960 by Mary Earle Gould Thestory of my gift of a set of larding needles is well worth telling. I have my Grandmother Gould’s cookbook of 1846 and after running across a rule about larding meat, I wrote to a distant friend to ask if he …