Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 30 no. 1, March 1977 by Bill Packard Sometime about 1910 to 1912, there were several spruce oil stills around Plainfield, Massachusetts. The Morann brothers had one on the grant that is now a part of a potato farm. There was one near where West Street and Bird Road meet …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 6 no. 2, April 1953 by Frank Cetin Back in 1856 a mall by the name of Adam Finger built a high chair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is far more modern than any high chair being manufactured today. It stands approximately four feet high , was hand made, and …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 65 no. 4, December 2012 by Maria V. Shevzov Since the early 1920s, a piano labeled by a local craftsman, Wesley Whitaker, has stood in the North Carolina Executive Mansion, built in 1891 as a home for the state’s chief executive. Tours of the Executive Mansion routinely show the piano, …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 53 no. 4, December 2000 by Jay G. Ruckel The Inventive Genius of Nineteenth Century New Yorkers in Glove Technology as Seen in Records of the United States Patent Office Early nineteenth‑century America was an era of relative glovelessness, but the new Republican nation soon entered an epoch of democratic …
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 65 no. 4, December 2012 by John G. Wells Luigi Nessi, a successful practicing architect and regional planner in Lugano, Switzerland, had always been curious to learn more about the beautiful preindustrial age utilitarian objects he saw. They excelled in aesthetic design and were works of the finest craftsmanship. His …
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