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>From: "Charles M.Keller" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: blacksmithing
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>Here are a few references on blacksmithing and blacksmith shops to accompany
>those circulated a week or so ago.
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>Appleton, D.
>       1852    Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics,
>               Engine-work and Engineering. NY:D. Appleton and
>               Co.
>Bacon, John Lord
>     1986 [1904, 1908] Elementary Forge Practice. Reprinted
>               in Lost Technology Series. Bradley, Illinois:
>               Lindsay Publications, Inc.
>Brumfield, Gary
>       1993 Cock Forging: A Study in Technology. Journal of
>               Historic Armsmaking Technology 5:65-87.
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>Edwards, Jay, and Tom Wells
>    1993  Historic Louisiana Nails:  Aids to the Dating of
>          Old Buildings. Baton Rouge,Louisiana; Geoscience
>          Publications.
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>Faulkner, Alaric
>    1986  Maintenance and Fabrication at Fort Pentagoet
>          1635-1654: Products of an Acadian    Armorer's
>          Workshop.  Historical Archaeology  20:1; pp 63-94.
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>Gill, Harold B., and Thomas K. Ford
>    1971  The Blacksmith in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg:
>          An Account of His Life and Times and of His Craft.
>          Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg
>          Foundation.
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>Gunnion, Vernon S., and Carroll J. Hopf
>    1976  The Blacksmith: Artisan Within the Early
>          Community.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
>                 Pennsylvania Historial and Museum Commission.
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>Gordon, Robert B.
>    1982  The Metallurgical Museum of Yale College and
>          Nineteenth Century Ferrous Metallurgy in New
>          England.  Journal of Metals, 34: 7; pp. 26-33.
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>Harvey, David
>   1988   Reconstructing the American Bloomery Process.
>          Historic Trades and Crafts vol 1. Williamsburg, Va.,Colonial
>          Williamsburg Foundation.
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>Hazard, Caroline
>   1930  Nailer Tom's Diary Otherwise The Journal of Thomas
>         B.Hazard of Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1778 to 1840.
>         Boston: The Merrymount Press
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>Holmstrom, J. G.
>    1900 Modern Blacksmithing. Chicago: Alhambra Book Co.
>       Reprinted by Lindsey Publications Inc.
>
>Keller, Charles M.
>   1993 Forging a Future in Newman.  Historic Illinois, Vol 16,
>       No. 2.  Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
>   1994 Invention, Thought and Process: Strategies in Iron
>       Tool Production. In Sarah U. Wisseman and Wendell S.
>       Williams (eds.) Ancient Technologies and
>       Archaeological Materials. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and
>       Breach Science Publishers pp. 59-70.
>   1994 The Chesebro Blacksmith Shop, Part I.  Early American
>       Museum Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2; Fall, 1994.  Mahomet,
>       Illinois; Early American Museum of the Champaign County
>       Forest Preserve District.
>   1995 The Chesebro Blacksmith Shop, Part II.  Early American
>       Museum Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1; Spring, 1995.
>   1997 Tools in the 1909 Chesebro Blacksmith Shop.  The
>       Tuyere, January-February, 1997.  Illinois Valley
>       Blackmith Association.
>
>Keller, Charles M. and Paul Benson
>   1989 Ignatius Streibich, Blacksmith.  Chronicle of the
>       Early American Industries Association, Vol.42; No.2.
>
>Keller, Charles M., and Janet Dixon Keller
>   1996  Cognition and Tool Use:  The Blacksmith at Work.  New
>       York, NY:  Cambridge University Press.
>
>Knight, Edward
>   1877   Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary.
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>Light, John D.
>   1986  An Industrial Smithy:  Bear Creek, Yukon .  IA; Vol. 12, No. 1.
>
>Nolan, Charles
>   n.d. Yesterday's Blacksmith. Privately Published.
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>Reichman, Charles
>   1991   The Daily Transactions of a 19th Century Rural
>          Blacksmith. Chronicle of the Early American Industries
Association 44:4:122-123.
>
>Rostoker, Wm. And Bennet Bronson
>   1990   Pre-industrial Iron: Its Technology and Ethnology.
>          Archaeomaterials Monograph #1. Philadelphia, PA.
>
>Sanders, Thomas
>   1989 Mechanics.  Midwest Open-Air Museums Magazine 10
>       (3) :18-21
>   1993 Iron and Steel for the 1830's Indiana Blacksmith.
>       Midwest Open-Air Museums Magazine IX:1.
>   nd. Business as Usual: Blacksmithing at Fort Snelling.
>       Unpublished Manuscript, Minnesota Historical Society.
>
>Sanders, Thomas, and Linda Fransen
>   nd.  Curtis Blacksmith Shop Intepretive Plan.
>       Unpublished Manuscript, Conner Prairie, Fishers,
>       Indiana.
>
>Sears, Roebuck and Company
>   1915  Tools, Machinery and Blacksmith's Supplies.  Catalog
>       reprinted by the Midwest Tool Collectors Association
>       and the Artist-Blacksmiths' Association of North
>       America, 1985.
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>Smith, H. R. Bradley
>   1966   Blacksmith's and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne
>          Museum. Shelburne Museum, Inc.
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>Stachiw, Myron D.
>   nd  The World of Emerson Bixby, Blacksmith: Work,
>       Family and Community in 19th Century Barre,
>       Massachusetts.  Unpublished Manuscript, Old Sturbridge
>       Village, Sturbridge, MA
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>Weygers, Alexander G.
>   1973 The Making of Tools. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
>   1974 The Modern Blacksmith. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold
>       Co.
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>White, Frank
>   1991   Eighteenth Century Blacksmith Served Diversified
>          Needs. Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association,
           >44:1:26-27.
>
>Whittaker, Francis
>   1986 The Blacksmith's Cookbook: Recipes in Iron.
>       Vail,CO: Jim Fleming Publications.
>
>Wylie, William N. T.
>   1990 The Blacksmith in Upper Canada. Ganaoque, Ontario:
>               Longdale Press.
>
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>Charles M. Keller
>Collections Manager
>Early American Museum of the Champaign County
>        Forest Preserve
>Mahomet, IL  61853
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