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Fulltext Pdfs of Vintage Catalogs, Manuals, Leaflets, etc., on This website are for Hand-held, Portable Electric Tools and Bench-Top Woodworking Machines

Albert G Glidden Handmade Furniture and How to Make It Spokane WA 1910

"Stanley-Carter Router Shaper Catalog no 61" -- 1935

Herbert E Tautz and Clyde J Fruits, The Modern Motor-Driven Woodworking Shop: How to Plan, Operate and Get the Most Out of It Milwaukee: Woodworkers Educational Department (Division of Delta Manufacturing Co.), 1930

Casco Project Book 1935

Table of Contents

Prologemena

Introduction: The Pivotal Roles of the 1920s, the 1950s, and the Hour Glass Analogy (See Appendix 16)

1. Woodworking: 1900 and Before: Nineteenth century and earlier background

Document 15: C M Woodward, on the importation of the Russian system of teaching woodworking 1887

Appendix 23: From Handicraft System to Factory System

Appendix 24: From Hand Tools to Machine Tools

2. Woodworking 1901-1910 [under construction]

Document 1: P H Adams Reclining Chair May 1902

Document 2: A L Hall "Workshop at Home" 1908

Document 6: a 1904 article heralding "The Significance of the Arts and Crafts Movement for Woodworking" 

Document 19: Gustav Stickley -- The Motif of 'Mission' 

Document 21: Frank Lloyd Wright -- Art and Craft of the Machine 1901

Document 27: Gustav Stickley: "The Structural Style in Cabinet-Making" House Beautiful  15, December 1903, pages 78-93  

Document 42: IRA S. GRIFFITH "Recreation with Tools" Countryside Magazine and Suburban Life  10 June 1910 pp 22+

Document 48:William L Price "The Attitude of Manual Training to the Arts and Crafts" 1905

Document 49: William L Price "The Building of a Chair" 1904

3. Woodworking 1911-1920

Document 3: H H Windsor "How to Make a Morris Chair"

Document 25: Electrical World 75 May 15 1920

Document 29: R A Wagner "The Development of Skilled Mechanics" The Building Age 36 1914

4. Woodworking 1921-1930 [under construction 9-2-08]

Appendix 19: The Impact of Electrification

Appendix 20: Electric Woodworking Tools Developed in the 1920s

Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America

Appendix 23: J D Wallace Jointer

Appendix 24: J D Wallace Table Saws

Appendix 25: Appendix 25: Notes for Piece on Modernism, Modernization, Modernity, Antimodern

Appendix 26: From Handicraft System to Factory System

Appendix 27: From Hand Tools to Machine Tools

Appendix 28: Parallel Nature of Cookbooks and Woodworker's Manuals

Appendix 29: Geoge C. Kelley and Ray L. Carter Develop the Router

Document 4: Paul D Otter "Morris Chair" 1914 (reprinted 1923)

Document 9: "Notes on Progress of the Use of Electricity in the Industrial and Domestic Field" 1921

Document 13: Paul V. Woolley's "The Importance of Projects in the Education of Boys" 1926

Document 14: Principles of Bauhaus Production 1926

Document 22: Henry B Allen -- Improvements in Steels for Woodcutting Saws and Knives 1930  

Document 23: John Shaw Portable Electrically-Driven Machines 1928 

Document 24: Paul D Otter on "Mechanic", "Cabinetmaker", "Craftsman", "Carpenter" 1923

Document 41:  Popular Homecraft volume 1, number 1, 1930 "The Growing Popularity of Homecraft Workshops"

Document 46: William Klenke "The Saw That Saws on Top"

Document 47:

Stanley Rule and Level Plant "This Will be the Bench" 1927

5. Woodworking 1931-1940 [under construction]

Document 12: The formation of the National Home Workshop Guild  1933

Document 10: Hobbs Working With Tools 1935

Document 16: Joseph Aronson on "Modern Furniture" 1938

Document 20: Anonymous "Riding a Hobby Leads to Profit" Furniture Record 1937

Document 43: Torque. What Is It?

6. Woodworking 1941-1950

Appendix 22: Hans Goldschmidt and his Shopsmith

Document 8: Popular Science "How the Hammer, Saw and Try-Square Can Satisfy" 1946

Document 44: John Folkerth Interviews Hans Goldschmidt

Document 45: Herman Hjorth "The Router" 1949

7. Woodworking 1951-1960

Document 11: Gordon B Ashmead "Precision Makes the Shopsmith" 1951

Document 5: Creden "America Rediscovers Its Hands" 1953

Document 17: Judson Mansfield Woodworking Machines -- History of Development, 1852-1952  

Document 18: N C Brown From Handmade to Mass-Produced Furniture 1952  

Document 28: Walt Durbahn: "Our House is Different! Yours Can Be Too!" 1954  

Document 26: Herman Hjorth on the Radial Arm Saw Home Craftsman Magazine J-F 1950 

Document 32: Walt Durbahn -- A Model for Work Experience: The Building Trades in 1950s 

Document 33: Walt Durbahn: "Make a Hit With Your Handyman" 1954 

8. Woodworking 1961-1970

9. Woodworking 1971 -1980

10. Woodworking 1981-1990

Document 7: Mark Duginske, "Thoughts on a Working System." 1983

11. Woodworking 1991-2000

12. Woodworking early 21st century