Tools of the Trade - Reading List

  • “Another Example of a Turner’s Tool.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 39, no. 2 (1986): 14-16. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 177-179.
  • “Drawer Joints and Forstner Bits.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 33, (1980).
  • “Early Tool Inventories: Opportunities and Challenges.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 39, no. 3 (1986): 40-44. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983: 189-204.
  • “German People—German Tools?” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association [unknown]. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 181-188.
  • “Indiana Plane Makers.” Midwestern Folklore 18 (1992): 5-38.
  • “Planemaking in the United States: The Cartography of a Craft.” Material Culture 18, no. 3 (1986): 167-185. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 205-225.
  • “Some Notes on Early Indiana Planemakers and Dealers.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Levitttown, NY, (1985). See “Planemaking in the United States.”
  • “Tools on Tombstones: Some Indiana Examples.” Pioneer America 10, no. 1 (1978): 107-111. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 133-144.
  • “The Tools Used in Constructing Log Houses.” Folklore preprint series; v. 4., no. 2. Bloomington: Indiana University Folklore Publications Group, 1976.
  • “The Tools Used in Building Log Houses in Indiana.” Material Culture: Journal of the Pioneer America Society 33, no.1 (2001): 8-45.
  • “Traditional Tools as Symbols: Some Examples from Indiana Tombstones.” Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 12, no. 1 (1980), 54-63.
  • “Wood Screws as an Aid in Dating Wooden Artifacts.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 31, no. 1 (1979): 14-16. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 169-176.
  • “Word Origins and Tools.” The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 32, no. 2 (1979): 46-47. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 165-168.