Primary Sources

• Agriculture, farming, gardening, and husbandry

• Beekeeping

• Candles and candle-making

• Cookbooks and recipes

• Etiquette and manners

• Soap

• Life in 18th century America

• Runaway ads

• More primary sources, including letters & journals

Food & Drink

• Cookbooks

• Beer

• Bread

• Butter churns

• Chocolate

• Coffee and coffeehouses

• Gingerbread

• Inns & Taverns

• Mead

• Punch

• Spruce beer

• Tea

Play & Playthings

• Battledore & shuttlecock

• Board games

• Bowling games, including skittles and ninepins

• Bubbles

• Cards and card games

• Cricket

• Dolls

• Hoops and sticks for rolling

• Horse pull toys

• Kites

• Pantin

• Pinwheels, whirligigs, and toy windmills

• Puppets, puppet theaters, and puppet shows

• Rattles

• Rocking horses

• Skates

• Stick horses & hobby horses

• Additional toys and games

Textiles & Needlework

• Chatelaines and equipages

• Coats of arms embroidered by New England schoolgirls

• Deaths-head buttons

• Dyes and dyeing

• Embroiderers

• Fire screens

• Flame stitch, bargello, Irish stitch …

• Fly fringe

• Housewifes (hussifs, sewing rolls)

• Irons

• Knitting (and knitting sheaths)

• Knotting

• Lacemakers

• Laundresses and laundry

• Marks (initials/dates) on clothes and linens

• Milliners and millinery shops

• Monochrome-print clothing

• Painted silk

• Patched clothing

• Pincushions, and wearing pincushions

• Quilts: Patchwork and Wholecloth

• Sewing kits (including work-baskets, work-tables, hussifs, needlecases, etc.)

• Spangles

• Spinning with a distaff and spindle

• Swatch books and textile sample books

• Tailors, mantua-makers, and seamstresses

• Tambour embroidery

• Upcycling

• Wall pockets

• Work-bags

• Yarn-winding tools, including niddy-noddies & clock reels

• Index to the plates and figures in the 1789 Instructions for Cutting Out Apparel for the Poor

Lighting

• Primary sources relating to candles and candle-making

• Chambersticks

• Lanterns

Miscellaneous Topics

• Artificial flowers

• Ballad sellers, ballad singers

• Babywearing

• Baskets: Pottles & Pack Baskets

• Bed warmers

• Beekeeping

• Birdcages

• Blacksmiths

• Books for young readers about 18th century life & history

• Brooms

• Babywearing & baby slings

• Busts, bronzes, and other classical sculpture on the chimney-piece

• Camp followers

• Dressing tables

• Ear trumpets

• Fire screens

• Fishing & angling

• Floor cloths

• Flower sellers

• Foot warmers & foot stoves

• Booths at fairs

• Garnitures

• Hand screens

• Hornbooks

• Ice skating

• Knife grinders

• Magic lanterns

• Mops

• Napping

• Nodding Mandarins

• Parasols & umbrellas

• Peep shows & raree shows

• Peglegs

• Pickpockets

• Printed art and other broadsides displayed on walls

• Recipes for Fashion (1753)

• Sedan chairs

• Slipcovers

• Squirrels as pets

• Tinkers

• Toilettes, dressing tables, and dressing rooms

• Wallets

• Watering cans

• Wheelbarrows

• Wheelchairs