Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum by Michael Emery, Irwin Richman In the late 1890s

In the late 1890s

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Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum by Michael Emery, Irwin Richman In the late 1890sTable of Contents What we celebrate today as "crafts" were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman's product was not quaint, archaic, or merely decorative it was essential. The tools that created these necessities speak to the early American spirit of ingenuity. Simple but resourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function, endowed with a life of its own, uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. The