Chapters: EARLY STARTS (the first attempts at organized education) // NINETEENTH CENTURY IDEALISM (the effort to design and build the perfect school) // THE AMISH ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE // THE TEACHER // SCHOOL BOOK // TEACHING APPARATUS // DESKS AND CHAIRS // RULES AND REGULATIONS
The story of how these important early products were made and used, ranging from the simple tin pot to an elaborate brass chandelier; covering items used in the kitchen, living room, and bedroom; sconces, lanterns, trays, candle molds, candlesticks, and andirons, ladles, bed warmers, and a multitude of other objects. Illustrated with scores of photos. [from the publisher]
Vol. 1--American Axe--American Pewter Molds--Antiques in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Architecture--Art of Blacksmithing--Aunt Lydia--Bells and Bell Towers--Benjamin Harbeson, Coppersmith--Benjamin Harbeson and the Golden Teakettle--Bread and Ovens--Britannia--Butter Molds--Buying Pewter--Cast Steel--Casting Pewter Spoons--Church Architecture in Lancaster County--Church Pewter--Collectible Axes--Colonial Craftsmen--Cooking up a Storm--Coppersmithing in America--Coppersmithing in early America--Decorated Chests in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country--Domestic Architecture in Lancaster County--Early American Brass and Copper--Early American Brass Andirons--Early American Fireplaces--Early Gunmaking--Folk Art in Metals--Folk Art in Metals-a Deliberate Art--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Handcrafts in Lancaster County-Buildings and Books--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Guns and Axes--Handmade Conestoga Wagon--Hattie Brunner--Himmelreich Collection--Historic American Bells--Historic House Hardware--How to identify the Pennsylvania Rifle--Hunting for Hatchets--In search of Folk Art--Jacob Dickert, Rifle Maker--Kentucky Rifle--Kentucky Rifle: Scuttlebutt--Literature on Log Architecture--Locksmiths and Locks--Moravian Architecture in Bethlehem--Names behind Pennsylvania's Important Pewter Heritage--Notes for Collectors of Early American Copper--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania Folk Art--Pennsylvania-German Schranks--Pennsylvania Pewterers--Peter Getz of Lancaster--Peter Gonter, Lancaster Gunsmith--Pewter--Pewter Spoon Molds--Pewter Spoons--Philadelphia Butter--Punched Tinware--Queen Anne Pewter Teapots--Rarity Counts in Copper--Remarks on Iron Collecting--Riddle of Two Front Doors-Rifles in Berks County--Silversmithing--Simon Pennock, Pewter Maker--Some Notes on Axes--Stills in Early Pennsylvania--Summerhouse--Sycamores in Dutchland--Teatime--Things have changed--Tinsmith--Unique Dutch Barn--Village Blacksmith--Warming Pans: Early Bedwarmers--Where do Antiques come from?
Vol.2: American Copper Teakettle--American Fowling Piece--American Pewter of the Eighteenth Century--American Pewter: Queen Anne Style--Amish Way of Life--Andirons--Andirons--Antiques in Lancaster County--Art of Early American Blacksmiths--Blacksmith's Art--Butterprint in Early America--Cast-Iron Stoves of Pennsylvania--Casting a Pewter Spoon--Charm of Cast Iron--Church Pewter--Collecting Antique Iron Objects--Copper--Coppersmithing in 18th Century America--Dowsers and Spring Houses--Early American Metalwork--Early Pewter was produced by Molds--18th-Century Iron Furnaces--Fireplace Accessories--German Chevron Doors in Lancaster County--Herr House: A Gem of Domestic Architecture--Kauffman Treasures in unique N.H. Show--Lancaster County Amish--Letter to Henry--Making Objects of Copper in 18th-Century Pennsylvania--Making of a Museum--Mennonites: Religious Exiles, Fine Needleworkers--Metals: The Craftsmen--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania-German Schrank--Pickers and Pewter--Products of the Brass Founder: Molds for Casting Objects of Pewter--Schranks and Schrank Hunting--Silver in the New World--Silver Teapots & Coffeepots--Tinware--Training the Apprentice Coppersmith--Why Antique Copper?--Henry J. Kauffman: Collector, Author, and Craftsman.
Metalworking trades in early America : the blacksmith, the whitesmith, the farrier, the edge toolmaker, the cutler, the locksmith, the gunsmith, the nailer, the tinsmith
Originally published: Early American ironware, cast and wrought. Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle Co., 1966.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"A fascinating and informative survey of early metalworking trades.Each is covered in its own separate chapter: the blacksmith, whitesmith, edgetool maker, cutler, locksmith, wheelwright, gunsmith, nailer, and tinsmith. Introductory chapters describe and explain the blast furnace, forge, and iron foundry, processes that provided the raw material for the early metal trades. Quoting extensively from contemporary sources, Mr. Kauffman describes not only what was made, but also how it was made. Enhancing the text are more than 200 illustrations, many never before available." [from the publisher]
