Books and Guides
 

Arbor, Marilyn. Tools & Trades of America's Past. Doylestown, Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1981.

Ardrey, Robert L. American Agricultural Implements. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Artley, Bob. Country Things. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

Bailey, Robert C. Farm Tools and Implements Before 1850. Spring City, Tennessee: Hillcrest Books, 1973.

Blandford, Percy W. Old Farm Tools and Machinery : an Illustrated History. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Gale Research Co., 1976.

Clemens, Terri. American Family Farm Antiques. Radnor, PA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1994.

Davis, Fred. Country Tools: Essential Hardware and Livery. Willits, California: Oliver Press, 1975.

Hothem, Lar. Collecting Farm Antiques: Identification and Values. Florence, Alabama: Books Americana, 1982.

Hurt, R. Douglas. American Farm Tools : From Hand-Power to Steam-Power. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1982.

Martin, George A. Farm Equipment and Hand Tools: A Practical Manual. Brattleboro, Vermont: S. Greene Press, 1980.

McNerney, Kathyrn. Antique Tools: Our American Heritage. Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 1979.

McNerney, Kathyrn. Primitives: Our American Heritage. Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 1979.

Partridge, Michael. Farm Tools Through the Ages. New York: Promontory Press, 1973.

Schlebecker, John T. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.

Sloane, Eric. A Museum of Early American Tools. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973.

Sloane, Eric. The Seasons of America Past. New York: W. Funk, 1958.

Thompson, John. Horse-drawn Farm Implements: a Source Book. Fleet, Hampshire, UK, 1978.

Vince, John Norman Thacher. Old Farms: An Illustrated Guide. New York: Schocken Books, 1983.

Vince, John Norman Thacher. Old Farm Tools. Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1974.

Wendel, Charles H. Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements and Antiquities. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1997.

Wright, Philip A. Old Farm Implements. London: A. & C. Black, 1961.
 

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(Posted on Farm Museum Website July 10, 1999)