Crafts
Williamsburg Craft Series
The good people of Williamsburg, Virginia, have produced a series of booklets on craftsmen operating there during the 18th Century and generously made them publicly available on Project Gutenberg.
While my site is about 18th Century Britain, the technologies in the Old World and the New would have been much the same. I have extracted some of the more relevant material but I urge you to look at the complete publications. Click on the cover illustration on each webpage to go to the Gutenberg link.
The Apothecary in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford and Harold B. Gill
The Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Harold B. Gill
The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford, John M. Hemphill and Samford C. Clement
The Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Johannes Heuvel and Mills Brown
The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford and Raymond R. Townsend
The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Thomas K. Ford and Horace J. Sheely
The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Parke Rouse
The Silversmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Ford and Thomas K. Bullock
The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg by Thomas K. Bullock and Maurice B. Tonkin