Alloy Artifacts
A tool collectors’ dream, this site is a deep repository of photos and info on 20th century hand tools and the companies that made them. While heavily oriented toward wrenches, the site also features screwdrivers, fencing pliers, wood chisels, sockets, breaker bars, and drive plugs, from makers like Diamond, Armstrong, Craftsman, Herbrand, Walden, and many more. Start with the site index for an A-Z tool listing, or from the homepage to browse the reference articles, tool timeline, trademarks and logos, and patent library.
The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes