In response to the request for sources on tanning and the leather
industry, please find below a partial list of historical, technical and
archaeological sources. Most of it is limited to the Colonial Period
through ca. 1890.
References
Babb, L.M.C.
1980 Bark Peeling and Tanning in the Forest of Wyre. Folklife
18:49-53.
Basalik, Kenneth J., Ronald Berge, Amy B. Keller, et al.
1992 Phase I/II Archaeological Survey River Route S.R. 22/322,
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. North Wales, Pa.: CHRS, Inc.
Bishop, J. Leander
1864 A History of American Manufactures From 1608 to 1860.
Philadelphia, Pa.: E. Young & Co.
Bomberger, Bruce and William Sisson
1991 Made in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission.
Brown, J.L.
1893 The Tanning Industry of Pennsylvania. Pp. A1-A31 in Annual
Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania 1892. Vol. XX, Part III Industrial Statistics. Harrisburg,
Pa.: State of Pennsylvania.
Burgess, Joanne
1988 The Growth of a Craft Labour Force: Montreal Leather
Artisans, 1815-1831. Canadian Historical Papers, 1988, 48-62.
Campbell, John
1774 A Political Survey of Britain: Being a Series of
Reflections on the Situation, Lands, Inhabitants, Revenue and Commerce of
This Island. London: Printed for the author.
Clark, Victor
1929 Leather and Rubber Manufacture. Pp. 225-231 in History of
Manufactures in the United States. Edited by Victor Clark. New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill.
Craigie, Carter
1968 Tanning in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania
Folklife 18(1):2-15.
Davis, Charles Thomas
1897 The Manufacture of Leather. Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey
Baird & Co.
Deagan, Kathleen and Elizabeth Reitz
1995 Merchants and Cattlemen: The Archaeology of a Commercial
Structure at Puerto Real. Pp. 231-287 in Puerto Real: The Arcchaeology of
a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola. Edited by Kathleen Deagan.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Deetz, James
1978 Archaeological Investigations at La Purisima Mission. Pp.
160-190 in Historical Archaeology: A Guide to Substantive and Theoretical
Contributions. Edited by Robert L. Schuyler. Amityville, NY: Baywood
Publishing.
Elledge, Barry
1989 The Influence of the Smoot Tannery on the Economic
Development of Wilkes County, N.C. 1897-1940. Journal of the Appalachian
Studies Association 1:105-113.
Ellsworth, Lucius
1965 The Delaware Leather Industry in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century. Delaware History XV:261-281.
1973 Jay Gould and the Leather Industry: Success Ir Failure.
Edited by Allen L. Dickes. Proceedings of the Business History
Conference. Texas Christian University: Business History Conference.
1975 Craft to National Industry in the Nineteenth Century: A
Case Study of the Transformation of the New York State Tanning Industry.
New York: Arno Press.
Faust, Alvin B.
1942 History of the Faust Tannery and Sidelights on the Life of
Alvin B. Faust. Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County
3(3):172-181.
Federal Trade Commission
1919 Report on Leather and Shoe Industries. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Foerderer, Robert H.
1968 Hides and Leather. Pp. 494-497 in One Hundred Years of
American Commerce. Edited by Chauncey Depew. New York, NY: Greenwood
Press.
Foley, Vincent
1965 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania -- A Unique Historical Site. The
Florida Anthropologist 18(3):49-60.
Foss, Robert W., Patrick H. Garrow and Silas D. Hurry
1979 Archaeological Investigations of the Edenton Snuff and
Tobacco Manufacture. Raleigh, North Carolina: Division of Archives and
History, Department of Cultural Resources.
Grobbel, William R.
1997 Tanning and Tanneries: An Introduction to Arcaheology of
the Leather Industry. North American Archaeologist 18(2):121-147.
Harper's Weekly
1890 A Day in a Tannery. Harper's Weekly, January 25, 74-75.
Hazard, Blanche E.
1921 The Organization of the Boot and Shoe Industry in
Massachussetts Before 1875. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Hoover, Edgar M.
1937 Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industry.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Houghton, George
1900 Leather, Tanned, Curried and Finished. Pp. 701-738 in
Twelfth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office.
Hunter Research Associates
1988 A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance for the Prompton Lake
Modification West Branch of the Lackawaxen River, Clinton Township and
Prompton Borough, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Report Submitted to U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. Trenton, N.J.: Hunter
Research Associates.
1994 Phase I Cultural Resources Investigations Jadwin Dam and
Reservoir Project, Dyberry Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Report
Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. Trenton,
N.J.: Hunter Research, Inc.
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine
1840 Leather Manufacture. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine 3:141-148.
Largey, Gale
1980 The Brunswick Tannery. Pennsylvania Heritage 6(1,
Winter):10-13.
Linnard, William
1978 Bark-Stripping in Wales. Folklife 16:54-60.
Louis Berger and Associates
1991a Phase I Archaeological Survey: Proposed Alignments of the
Tunkhannock Bypass, Tunkhannock Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
East Orange, New Jersey: Louis Berger and Associates, Inc.
1991b Phase I Cultural Resource Survey Report: Aldenville Bridge
Replacement, SR 0170, Section 671, Aldenville, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
East Orange, New Jersey: Louis Berger and Associates, Inc.
MacBride, David
1967 An Improved Method of Tanning Leather With an Introduction
by Peter Welsh. Smithsonian Journal of History 2(4, Winter):67-76.
Mason, Otis T.
1891 Aboriginal Skin Dressing -- A Study Based on Material in
the U.S. National Museum. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1889.
McDermott, Charles H.
1918 A History of the Shoe and Leather Industries. Boston,
Mass.: John W. Deneby & Co.
McMahon, Michal
1994 Public Service Versus Mans Properties: Dock Creek and the
Origins of Urban Technology in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. Pp.
114-147 in Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things From The
Colonial Era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press.
McMartin, Barabra
1992 Hides, Hemlock, and Adirondack History. Utica, NY: North
Country Books.
Millen, Patricia E.
1995 Bare Trees: Zadock Pratt, Master Tanner & What Happened to
the Catskill Mountain Forests. Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press.
Norcross, Frank W.
1901 A History of the New York Swamp. New York: The Chiswick
Press.
Pratt, Zadock
1847 Description of the Prattsville Tannery. Correspondence to
T.B. Wakeman, Secretary of the American Insititute. New York, NY.
Reed, R.
1972 Ancient Skins Parchments and Leathers. London, England:
Seminar Press.
Rotenstein, David S.
1994 Tunkhannock Tannery (36Wo66), Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania:
Phase I Cultural Resources Executive Summary and Phase III Data Recovery
Workplan. Monroeville, Pa.: Skelly and Loy, Inc.
1996 From Farm To Factory: Craft Dynasties and Leather Tanning
in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania. Dissertation in Folklore anf Folklife.
University of Pennsylvania.
1997 Leather Bound: Nineteenth Century Leather Tanners in
Allegheny City. Pittsburgh History 80(1):32-47.
Schultz, Jackson S.
1876 The Leather Manufacture in the United States: A
Dissertation on the Methods and Economies of Tanning. New York: The Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
Scientific American
1860 The Art of Tanning. Scientific American 2(3, January
14):33-34.
1882 American Industries No. 61: Hemlock Sole Leather Tanning.
Scientific American XLV(3, January 21):32-35.
1919 How Leather Is Tanned From Hides. Scientific American,
July 26, 56-57.
Shrawder, Joseph
1956 The Andrew Morgan Tannery, Worcester Township, Montgomery
County, Pa. Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County
4:77-88.
Sokoloff, Kenneth
1984 Was the Transition from the Artisanal Shop to the
Nonmechanized Factory Associated with Gains in Efficiency? Evidence from
the U.S. Manufacturing Census of 1820 and 1850. Explorations in Economic
History 21:351-382.
Taber, Thomas
1974 The Tanning Industry. Pp. 1082-1091 in Logging Railroad
Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania. Edited by Thomas Taber. Williamsport,
Pa.: Lycoming Publishing Co.
The Merchants' Magazine
1847 The Prattsville Tannery. The Merchants' Magazine
17(August):156-163.
Thomas, Ronald, Kenneth Baumgardt, Merle Dunn and Robert Hoffmans
1991 Phase III Data Recovery at the Birely Tannery (18Fr575),
City of Frederick, Maryland. Newark, Del.: MAAR Associates.
Waterer, John W.
1952 Leather in Life, Art and Industry. London: Faber and Faber
Limited.
Waters, Ivor
1970 Leather and Oak Bark At Chepstow. Chepstow, England: The
Chepstow Society.
Welsh, Peter
1958 A. Cardon and Company: Brandywine Tanners, 1815-1826.
Delaware History 8:121-147.
1963 A Craft That Resisted Change: American Tanning Practices
to 1850. Technology and Culture 4(3, Summer):298-317.
1964 Tanning in the United States to 1850: A Brief History.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Wiles, Richard C.
1983 The Tanning Industry in Greene County. Hudson Valley
Studies, June, 8-14.
1985 Windham. The Hudson Valley Regional Review 2(1):54-72.
Yoder, Don
1976 Transcript of Radio Interview with Francis Sharadin.
Pennsylvania Folklife 26(2):40-41.
Zahavi, Gerald
1988 Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism. Urbana,
Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
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