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* = In hand and used in the production of this sample catalogue.
* 1979.....Plateau/Crist Equipment
* 1978.....McMaster-Carr Supply
* 1973.....Mill & Mine Supply
* 1968.....Marshall Newell Supply
* 1941.....Brown & Sharp
* 1938.....L.S.Starrett
* 1925.....Sandusky Tool Co.
1922.....Sargent Tools
1922.....AF Brombacher
1921.....Collins & Co
* 1915.....Millers Falls Tools
* 1914.....Chapin-Stephens
1912.....L.& I.J. White
* 1911.....James Swan Co.
1910.....Sargent Tools
1909.....Peck, Stow & Wilcox (tinsmithing tools)
* 1909.....Preston
1900.....Berger Handbook of Engineers' and Surveyors'
Instruments of Precision
1899.....Russell Jennings Mfg. Co.
* 1898.....Stanley Tools
1896.....Britannia Co.
1895.....L.S.Starrett
* 1895.....Chas. Strelinger & Co., Detroit
1894.....Sargent Tools
1892.....Rabone Rules and Levels
* 1890.....Buck Brothers
* 1888.....Stanley Tools
1888.....Lufkin Rule Co.
1887.....Oldham
* 1887.....Millers Falls
* 1879.....Stanley Tools
* 1877.....Sandusky Tool Co.
* 1873.....D.R.Barton & Co.
* 1872.....Greenfield Tool Co.
* 1870-1...Stanley Tools
* 1869.....Auburn Tool Co.
* 1867.....Stanley Tools
* 1865.....Russel & Erwin Mfg. Co.
1860.....Belcher Brothers
* 1855.....Stanley Tools
* 1845.....R.Timmins & Sons
1838.....W.H. Carr
* 1933.....George P. Pilling & Son Company. Instruments and
apparatus for surgeons and hospitals. 1932-3 ed.
Philadelphia, 1932.
* 1921.....Kay-Scheerer Corporation. Illustrations of surgical
instruments of superior quality manufactured by
Kay-Scheerer Corporation of America. 22nd ed. N.Y.,
1921. TAUBMAN 617.9 K74i 1921
* 1914.....Collin & Cie. [Catalogue général illustrés
d'instruments de chirurgie. Paris, 1914.
TAUBMAN 617.9 C699c
* c1900.....John Weiss and Son. Catalogue of instruments for
operations on the bladder, kidney, urethra, etc.,
and rectum. Manufactured by John Weiss & Son, Ltd.
London, [1900?]. TAUB 617.9 W431.
* 1899.....Truax, Charles. The Mechanics of Surgery, comprising
detailed descriptions, illustrations, and lists of the
instruments, appliances, and furniture necessary in
modern surgical art. Chicago: Hammond Press, 1899.
* 1889.....Sharp & Smith. Catalogue of Sharp & Smith,
importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers
in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus..., etc.
Chicago, 1889.
TAUB 617.9 S532c 1889
* 1889.....George Tiemann & Co. The American armamentarium
chirurgicum. Centennial edition. N.Y.: C.H. Ludwig,
1889; rpt. San Francisco: Norman Publishing; Boston:
The Printer's Devil, 1989.
* 1879.....George Tiemann & Co. The American armamentarium
chirurgicum: illustrations of modern surgical
instruments and appliances. New York, 1879.
For additional catalogues, see Black (1996) and Davis (1986) below.
* 1922.....Montgomery Ward * 1897.....Sears Roebuck
* Bennion, Elisabeth. Antique Medical Instruments.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet; Berkeley: Univ.
of California Press, 1979.
DENT (at BUHR) R856 B421
* __________. Antique Dental Instruments. London:
Sotheby's Publications, 1986.
DENT RK 681 .B47x 1986
Bishop, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures
from 1608 to 1860. 3d ed. 3 vols. 1868 (rpt. 1967)
[on order]
[Black, Lois.] [Catalogue of Medical Trade
Catalogues.] N.Y.: The New York Academy of Medicine Library,
1996.
* Brigden, Roy. Agricultural Hand Tools. Shire Album 100.
Princes Risborough: Shire, c1983; rpt. 1995.
* Cope, Kenneth L. Makers of American Machinist's Tools: A
Historical Directory of Makers and their Tools. Mendham,
NJ: Astragal Press, 1994.
NOT AT U/M
* Cope, Kenneth L. American Machinist's Tools: An illustrated
directory of patents. Mendham, NJ: Astragal Press, 1993.
NOT AT U/M
* Daumas, Maurice. Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Mary Holbrook. London:
Portman, 1989. First English ed., 1972.
Q185 D243 1989
Davis, Audrey B. The Finest Instruments Ever Made: a Bibliography
of Medical, Dental, Optical, and Pharmaceutical Company
Trade Literature, 1700-1939. Arlington, Mass.: Medical
History Publishing Associates, c1986.
DENT or TAUB Z 7164 M43 D3811 1986
__________. Medicine and its Technology: An introduction
to the history of medical instrumentation. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1981.
* Dupont, Jean-Claude. L'artisan forgeron. Quebec: Les presses
de l'universite Laval, 1979.
TT 220 D861
* Fredgant, Don. Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical
Collectibles. Florence, Alabama: Books Americana,
1981.
DENT R 856.48 .F741 1981
* Fussell, G.E. The Farmer's Tools: A History of British
Farm Implements, Tools, and Machinery Before the
Tractor Came, From A.D. 1500-1900. London: Andrew
Melrose, 1952.
BUHR S 675 .F98
* Goodman, W.L. The History of Woodworking Tools. NY:
McKay; London: G. Bell, 1964.
TT 180 G65
* Hambly, Maya. Drawing Instruments, 1580-1980. London:
Sotheby's, 1980.
* Handtools of Arts and Crafts. London, 1981
ART & ARCH TT 153.7 H24
* Heggs, Francis Michell, and H. G. Radcliffe Drew.
The Instruments of surgery. Springfield, Ill.:
Charles C. Thomas, 1963.
* Hindle, Brooke, ed. America's Wooden Age: Aspects of
its Early Technology. Tarrytown: Sleepy Hollow
Restorations, 1975.
* Howe, James Virgil. The Modern Gunsmith. Rev.
ed. NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1941. 2 vols.
* Hummel, Charles. With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy
Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York. Charlottesville:
The University Press of Virginia for the Henry
Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1968.
ART & ARCH LOCAL STORAGE TJ 1195.H92
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's
Office. 1880-
Index Medicus. N.Y.: F. Leypoldt, 1879-
Kauffman, Henry J. American Axes. Brattleboro:
Stephen Greene Press, 1972.
NOT AT U/M
Kean, Herbert P. and Emil S. Pollak. Collecting Antique
Tools.
NOT AT U/M
__________. A Price Guide to Antique Tools.
NOT AT U/M
* Kababian, P.B. American Woodworking Tools. Greenwich:
NY Graphic Society, 1978.
A&A LOCAL STORAGE TT186.K41
* Kilby, Kenneth. The Cooper and his trade. London: John
Baker, 1971.
Medical Device Register. Greenwich, Conn.: DSI, 1993-
Mercer, Henry Chapman. Ancient Carpenters' Tools. Bucks
County Historical Society, 1929. 5th ed., Horizon
Press, 1975.
NOT AT U/M
Miller, Genevieve, ed. Bibliography of the history of
medicine of the United States and Canada, 1839-1960.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964.
Pearson, Ronald W. The American Patented Brace 1829-1924:
An illustrated directory of patents.
NOT AT U/M
* Peterson, Charles E., ed. Building Early America.
Art& Arch Local Storage TH 23 B93
* Pollak, Emil and Martyl Pollak. Selections from The
Chronicle: The Fascinating World of Early Tools and
Trades. Mendham, N.J., 1991.
Roberts, Kenneth D. and Jane W. Roberts. Planemakers
and other edged tool enterprises in New York State
in the nineteenth century. Cooperstown: NYSHA, 1971.
Roberts, Kenneth D. Wooden Planes in 19th-Century
America. Fitzwilliam, NH: Ken Roberts, 1975.
* Rose, Walter. The Village Carpenter.
ART & ARCH LOCAL STORAGE TH 5607.R8
Rutkow, Ira M. The history of surgery in the United
States, 1775-1900. 2 vols. San Francisco: Norman
Publishing, 1988.
Salaman, R.A. Dictionary of Tools of Woodworking and
Kindred Trades. NY: Scribner, 1975. U/M copy missing.
?Same as Dictionary of Woodworking Tools, 1990
____________. Dictionary of Leatherworking Tools.
* Scott-Scott, Michael. Drawing Instruments. Shire Album 180.
Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1986.
Sellens, Alvin. Woodworking Planes. Alvin Sellens, 1978.
* Sloane, Eric. A Museum of Early American Tools. NY:
Wilfrid Funk, 1964.
* Sturt, George. The Wheelwright's Shop. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1963.*
* Tabanelli, Mario. Tecniche e strumenti chirurgici del
xiii et xiv secolo. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1973.
Biblioteca della 'Rivista di storia delle scienze
mediche e naturali,' v. 18.
BUHR RD 21 D13
* Thompson, C.J.S. The History and Evolution of Surgical
Instruments. NY: Schuman's, 1942.
DENT RK 681 .T46
* Turner, Anthony. Early Scientific Instruments: Europe, 1400-
1800. London: Sotheby's, 1987.
Q 185 T86511 1987
* Underhill, Roy. The Woodwright's Shop: A practical guide to
traditional woodcraft. Chapel Hill: U of NC Press, 1981.
* __________. The Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional
Woodcraft. Chapel Hill, 1983. ART & ARCH TT 180 U4671 1983
* Viires, Ants. Woodworking in Estonia: Historical survey.
Transl. from Estonian [by] E.R. Kirjastus. Jerusalem:
Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the
National Science Foundation by the Israel Program for
Scientific Translations, 1969.
* Watson, Aldren. Hand Tools: Their Ways and Workings.
NY: Norton, 1982.
* Webber, Ronald. The Village Blacksmith. South Brunswick:
Great Albion Books, 1971.
TT220 W37 1972
Welcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Subject
Catalogue of the History of Medicine and Related Sciences.
Kraus International, 1980-
Whelan, John M. The Wooden Plane: Its history, form, and
function.
Not at U/M
Wilbur, C. Keith. Antique Medical Instruments. West Chester,
Penn.: Schiffer, 1987.
Basing, Patricia. Crafts and trades in Medieval manuscripts.
London: British Library, 1990.
FA//ND 3336 B371 1990--BUT NOT ON SHELF!
* Campbell, J. Menzies. Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell
Collection of Dental Instruments, Pictures, Appliances,
Ornaments, etc. Edinburgh: Royal College of Surgeons,
1966.
DENT RK 686 .R88
* Dammann, Gordon. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civil War
Medical Instruments and Equipment. Missoula, Montana:
Pictorial Histories, 1983.
DENT R 856 .A5 D361 1984
* Davis, Aubrey B. The Dentist and his Tools.
In the Smithsonian. [Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution,] 1970?
DENT RK 681 .D26 1970
* Early American Tools. Photographs by Hans Namuth; Text by
Marshall Davidson. Olivetti Corporation of America, 1975.
* Edmunson, James M. Nineteenth-century surgical instruments:
A catalogue of the Gustav Weber Collection at the Howard
Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine. 1986
TAUBMAN RD71 G8711 1986
* Gaynor, James M. and Nancy L. Hagedorn. Tools: Working Wood in
Eighteenth-century America. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, 1993.
NOT AT U/M
Hansen, James L., et. al. The Billings microscope collection
of the Medical Museum Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,
1974.
* Historical Center for the Health Sciences.
URL:http://www.sils.umich.edu/HCHS/
* Instruments of Change: New Hampshire Hand Tools and their
makers, 1800-1900. Exhibition held at the New Hampshire
Historical Society, 1984-5. Written by James L. and Donna
Belle Garvin. New Hampshire Historical Society,
1985. GRAD TJ 1200 .G331 1985
* Minow, Helmut, ed. Historische Vermessungsinstrumente:
ein Verzeichnis der Sammlungen in Europa. Wiesbaden:
Chmielorz, 1982.
* The OHIOLINK on-line catalogue. URL: telnet:/cat.ohiolink.edu
The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton.
NOT AT U/M
* Wildung, Frank H. Woodworking Tools at Shelburne Museum.
Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1957.
Art&Arch TH 5618 S54 1957
Besson, Jacques. Theatrum instrumentorum (Lyons, 1569)
* Bion, [Nicolas]. The Construction and Principal Uses of
Mathematical Instruments, translated from the French of M.
Bion...by Edmund Stone, including thirty folio
illustrations of the several instruments, to which he
has added a Supplement. 1758; rpt. 1995.
The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts.
TAUBMAN RARE T47 B72 1835
* Comenius, Johannes Amos. The Orbis Pictus of John Amos
Comenius. Syracuse: C.W. Bardeen, 1887. (Better
editions available)
* A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry.
2v. Dover rpt. [or, of course, the original Encyclopedie
itself.]
Art& Arch Local Storage T9 E563
Disston Handbook for Lumbermen. [Henry Disston & Sons.] (1902)
Not at U/M
Felibien, Andre. Des principes de l'Architecture
(Paris, 1676)
Fuller, John. The Art of Coppersmithing (1893)
Not at U/M
Graham, Frank D. Carpenter's and Builder's Guide
(1st ed.) Audel, 1923.
* Grimshaw, Robert. Grimshaw on Saws. 1880.
BUHR--placed on hold at Hatcher Circ.
The Gurley Manual : American Engineer's & Surveyor's
Instruments. 1874.
SCIENCE TA 581 G98--But not on shelf!
Hasluck, Paul N. Metalworking: Tools, Materials, and
Processes. (1907)
Not at U/M
Hazen, Edward. Popular Technology; or, Professions and
Trades. 2 vols. NY: Harper, 1855.
Henry Disston & Sons. The Saw in History. 8th ed.
Philadelphia, 1925.
* Holme, Randle. Academy of Armory. (1688)
Holtzapffel, Charles and John Jacob. Turning and Mechanical
Manipulation. 5 vol. 1843.
VOLS. 4 & 5 in A&A LOCAL STORAGE.
[Lukin, James. Turning Lathes. 1894.]
* Lukin, James. Turning Lathes: A manual for technical schools
and apprentices. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1888.
* MacCord, Charles William. Practical Hints for
Draughtsmen. 2nd ed. NY: John Wiley, 1888.
ENGIN (at BUHR) T 353 .M14 1888
Martin, Thomas. The Circle of the Mechanical Arts. 2nd
ed. London: J.Bumpus, 1818.
Mascall, Leonard (1572): instruments for grafting reprod.
in Chronicle, Dec., 1975.
* Moxon, Joseph. Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-
Works. 1678, 1703; rpt. Morristown: Astragal, 1989.
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Builder's Dictionary. London, 1726.
Nicholson, Peter. New Carpenter's Guide. Improved and
enl. ed. London: Jones, 1826.
Nicholson, Peter. The Mechanic's Companion. Philadelphia,
1859.
Nicholson File Company. A Treatise on Files and Rasps.
Providence, 1878.
Richardson, M.T. Practical Carriage Building. (1892)
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Roubo, A. L'Art du Menuisier. 4 vols. Paris, 1769-1775;
rpt. Paris, 1976.
* Scultetus, Johannes. Armamentarium chirurgicum XLIII
Tabulas aeri elegantissime incisis...exornatum. 1655;
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* Stockham, Peter, ed. Early American Crafts and Trades. NY:
Dover, 1976.
* Warren, S[amuel] Edward. A Manual of Drafting Instruments
and Operations. NY: Wiley, 1872.
BUHR QA464 W31 1872
Welsh, Peter C. "Woodworking tools, 1600-1900."
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Dittrick Museum, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI
Colonial Williamsburg
The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association
AVAILABLE at CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO
Astragal Press
Shire Books
Lindsay Publications
AACR2r MeSH LCSH Art and Architecture Thesaurus Controlled vocabularies constituted by indexes and arrangement of many of the works cited above. Most comprehensive: McMaster-Carr.
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Computer Processing. London: Clive Bingley, 1988.
ILSL AM 139.A2311 1988.
* Baker, Sylvia. "Organizing the Collection." In Museum
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* __________. Museum Librarianship. Jefferson, NC:
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1975.
* Chenhall, Robert G. and David Vance. Museum Collections
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* Manual for cataloging historical medical artifacts using
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How-toGuides/ArtifactMARC/cover.html
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NOT ON SHELF
* Patent numbers by year.
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* Petersen, Toni and Pat Molholt. Beyond the Book: Extending
MARC for Subject Access. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1990.
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