Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
A reprint of the list in Early Blacksmiths of Lancaster County : the trade and its products by Elmer Z. Longenecker in 1966 (Master's Degree thesis and printed by the Community Historians in its Annual in 1971.)
A reprint of the list in Early Blacksmiths of Lancaster County : the trade and its products by Elmer Z. Longenecker in 1966 (Master's Degree thesis and printed by the Community Historians in its Annual in 1971.)
"When Samuel Yellin opened his Arch Street Metal worker's Studio in Philadelphia in 1920, most who shared his ancient craft had abandoned their tools in favor of other pursuits. Yellin was a blacksmith - he insisted on calling himself that, although clients flocked to him for his sculptural and artistic skill, rather than to have horses shod or plows mended. From his shop poured the monumental iron-work that graces dozens of cathedrals, institutions, public buildings and private residences designed by the nation's premier architects during an age of great opulence. Samuel Yellin was undoubtedly one of the finest blacksmiths who ever worked in America...He liked to say that he "sketched with a hammer for a pencil and the red-hot iron for drawing paper".
