Alphabetically arranged entries for some two hundred objects from eighteenth and nineteenth century United States with the author/artist's own illustrative sketches. Includes an epilogue on the alphabet in early America.
A sketchbook of early American antiquities, inventions, curios, and firsts is designed for collectors and craft aficianados and is arranged in an alphabetical format that provides caption descriptions of each depicted piece.
Pencil sketches accompany descriptions of early American objects from the almanack and johnny-cake to the niddy noddy and zig-zag fence. Briefly discusses the use of the alphabet in early America.