How to..18th & 19th century style

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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22675/22675-h/22675-h.htm Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1893).... An interesting read on the ways of life in 18th century America, from candle making to preserving food to spinning yarn etc etc

http://www.library.illinois.edu/dnc/...=1383761113562 Uof I makes available on line archived rural/ ag related periodicals from 19th & early 20th century.

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Excellent Doc--- thanks so much.

If you ever run across this one I recommend it also.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0801862280

The vanished ways of colonial America's skilled craftsmen are vividly reconstructed in this superb book by Edwin Tunis. With incomparable wit and learning, and in over 450 meticulous drawings, the author describes the working methods and products, houses and shops, town and country trades, and individual and group enterprises by which the early Americans forged the economy of the New World.

http://books.google.com/books?id=TV-...gbs_navlinks_s