LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1 Virgin hemlock mixed with white pine in Jack's Mountain Di- 



vision of Seven Mountains' State Forest, 3 



2 Collection of finished boxes, made in Pennsylvania 64 



3 Box shooks and nailing machine in a Pennsylvania box factory, 65 



4 Interior of a small Philadelphia box factory. Boxes when nailed 



are used for city trade , 65 



5 Utilisation of mill waste. Rough squares are bolted from slabs 



and edgings, and then turned into chair stock, 76 



6 Chair parts and the squares or dimension stock from which they 



are made, 76 



7 Parts of a farm wagon and the woods used in their manufacture, 76 



8 Showing pants of delivery wagons and woods used, 76 



9 Body of an old4ime Conestoga wiagon. This style of wagon is 



still being manufactured in Pennsylvania , 76 



10 Hickory, oak and pine waste of a large Pennsylvania wagon manu- 



facturer being sold for fuel , 76 



11 Manufacture of limousine bodies, 77 



12 River scows after being launched, and re'ady to be 'taken to market 



down the Allegheny River , 86 



13 Racing shell being built by a Pennsylvania manufacturer for 



the University of Pennsylvania, 86 



14 Manufacture of mine sprags in Northern Pennsylvania, 87 



15 Standard dimensions of a mine sprag, 87 



16 Tier bins for provision store , 100 



17 Dimensions of a wrapping board , 100 



18 Foundry flasks , 100 



19 Sixty different kinds of novelties made by one manufacturer of 



Pennsylvania , 100 



20 Product of a woodenware manufacturer of Philadelphia, 101 



21 Oil tank staves preparatory to assembling, 110 



22 Finished oil tank , 110 



23 Manufacture of toy pilanos , 110 



24 Woodworking department of a toy manufacturer. Making wooden 



dolls, 110 



25 Brush blocks , Ill 



26 Brush blocks , Ill 



27 Manufacture of pipe organs , 122 



28 Piano cases and kinds of wood used in their manufacture, 122 



29 Action parts of upright piano, 123 



30 Interior of excelsior factory, showing billets in place in excelsior 



machines, .. .*. 134 



31 Finished excelsior ready for bailing, 134 



32 Whips, canes, and umbrella handles, and rough stock from which 



they are manufactured , 134 



33 Manufacture of shoe lasts. Roughly cut billets and the finished 



lasts turned from them , 135 



34 Evolution of a shoe last, 135 



35 Evolution of a briar pipe, 142 



36 Evolution of a gun stock and a number of finished stocks ready 



for market, made of black and Circassian walnut, 143 



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