Credits
- Original material and arrangement copyright © 1996 Paul F. Schaffner.
- With a few exceptions, most of the photographs rendered here by scanning
are copyright © 1996 Paul F. Schaffner. The photographs of the three cooper's
tools (adze, howel, plane) are of tools in the collection of the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne,
Vermont, and were taken from Frank H. Wildung's pamphlet,
Woodworking Tools at Shelburne Museum (1957).
The photograph of the razee smoothing plane was taken from
the catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by the New Hampshire
Historical Society 1984-1985 (Instruments of Change).
Photographs of items cited for comparison's sake are attributed
individually.
- The drawings and engravings were taken largely from
trade literature and are attributed individually in
abbreviated form. Full bibliographical references are
available in the attached bibliography.
- Aside from the three cooper's tools and the smoothing
plane, among the tools themselves here catalogued:
- All the medical instruments aside from the
artery forceps belong to the University of Michigan
Historical Center for the Health Sciences and have
been photographed and examined with permission of
Denise Anthony, here gratefully acknowledged.
- All other tools belong to Paul F. Schaffner.
