Eighteenth-Century Woodworking Tools: Papers Presented at a Tool Symposium, May 19-22, 1994

Gaynor, James M. (editor)

ISBN 10: 0879351101 / ISBN 13: 9780879351106

Published by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va, 1997

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Gray & illus. wraps, 248 pp., BW illus. Volume III of the series Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades. Contains 15 papers presented at the 1994 conference: Woodworking Tools before 1700 / Philip Walker -- The Development of the English Toolmaking Industry during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / David Hey -- Eighteenth-Century American Toolmaking / Paul B. Kebabian -- Tools for Sale: The Marketing and Distribution of English Woodworking Tools in England and America / Nancy L. Hagedorn -- "He wants a Sett of Tools": The Acquisition and Ownership of Tools in Virginia / Jan K. Gilliam -- The Archaeological Evidence of Tools Used in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Virginia / David Harvey -- From Granford to Gabriel: Some Aspects of Planemaking in England in the Eighteenth Century / Jane and Mark Rees -- Planemaking in Eighteenth-Century America / Donald and Anne Wing -- The Joiner's Trade and the Wooden Plane in Eighteenth-Century New England / Ted Ingraham -- Apprentices / Harold B. Gill, Jr. -- In Search of the Colonial Woodworking Shop: Benches, Shops, and the Woodworking Process / Scott Landis -- Using Tools to Earn a Living and the Dominy Family of East Hampton, Long Island / Charles F. Hummel -- Wing and Reed: Case Studies of Two Early Nineteenth-Century Chairmakers / Frank G. White -- An Eighteenth-Century Harpsichord Workshop Contributes Two Important Technologies / John R. Watson -- "The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools" / Roy Underhill. VG (Previous owner wrote name on front flyleaf; otherwise, Like New.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eighteenth-Century Woodworking Tools: Papers Presented at a Tool Symposium, May 19-22, 1994
• Publisher: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0879351101
• ISBN 13: 9780879351106
• Binding: Softcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History
  • History - American

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Erected in 1773, burned in 1885, and now reconstructed, the Public Hospital was the first public facility in colonial America built for the treatment of the mentally ill. This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.