Celebrating Trades, Crafts, and Tools in American History and Their Impact on Our Lives
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 60 No. 1, March 2007 by Dana Martin Batory In our small village of Crestline, Ohio, a friend once kept in front of his antique shop a foot-powered grinding...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 55, no. 2, June 2002 by Carl Bopp The three objects in Figures 2, 3, and 4 were bought as a group at an antiques show. They are thought...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XI, no. 1, March 1958 by Laurence A. Johnson “Niddy-Noddy, Niddy-Noddy, two heads and one body” sang the proprietress of the antique shop in New England many years ago....
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 34 no.1, March 1981 by Robin H. Wyllie This article covers but a fraction of the documentary information discovered during the project. Much of it, for example the Blenkhorn...
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. II, no. 1, January 1954 The following passage is taken from Chapter 5, Article 3 of Le Parfait Boulanger (The Perfect Baker), by M. Parmentier, Paris, I778, and has...
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XIX, no. 2, June 1966 By R.D. Morris The four hammers in fig. 1 are saw hammers and are often mistaken for file maker’s hammers. These, as well as...
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. X no. 1, March 1957 by Laurence A. Johnson The pictures used in this article are from Mr. W. H. Murphy’s catalogue, entitled “CATALOGUE containing cuts of the Special...
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. II No. 14, June 1940 By Joseph E. Sandford About two thousand two hundred years ago, the Greek comic poet Diphilus wrote a comedy called The Brick-Carrier. Only two...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XXIII, No. 3, September 1970 By Barbara Tucker, Grace Mary Ederer, and Coral Draxten The real romance and excitement of the big pearl hunting days on the Mississippi River...
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 4 No. 2, April 1951 by Gillian W.B. Bailey Although the manufacture of tin plate had -long been a monopoly of Bohemia, about 1620 the industry spread to Saxony...
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