Our first mini-dive into obscure foundries looks at Wright & Bridgeford and their transition into Bridgeford & Co.
Research
Don’t Toy With Me: How to Tell if Your Tiny Stove is a Toy or a “Salesman’s Sample”
In this post, we explore the plethora of miniature iron stoves and learn how to appropriately identify them as toys or salesman's samples.
This is the only time you should take my word for it.
A cautionary tale about letting your guard down in research. The past happened: We owe it to the history we claim to care about to accurately represent it.
CI Historical Society Finding Aid
The Cast Iron Historical Society: Finding Aid The Cast Iron Historical Society has a large amount of primary and secondary source materials related to stove and hollowware industries worldwide. Almost all of these will be added to the files section and distilled into units to be more easily searched; however, single page documents will either … Continue reading CI Historical Society Finding Aid
Rolling with the French, Rhode Island Style.
A quick bit of conneting iron to paper, this post describes how a little bit of open collaboration and information sharing can bring a lazy assumption into a strongly supported presumption.
Meet the Barstows
Thoughts on my third visit to view the Amos Barstow Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society.
What Gets to be History?
A short discussion of the development of the perspectives of Everyday Anthropology, and the responsibility that should be inherent in owning artifacts from our collective past.
Reflecting on First Strike Fest
Reflecting on the awesome time had by all at the second annual First Strike Festival.
Danny’s Favorite: Shattering Myths in the World of Cast Iron.
An update to some access issues regarding topics in one of my books--A critical piece of evidence against the prison made myth of The Favorite line of cast iron cookware is now housed in the public domain.
Calling All Cast Iron Kooks
I've been steadily involved in the cast iron community for several years now. I've focused primarily on the 19th century cookware, and within that primarily griddles, with skillets being a fairly close second. That culminated in the publication of the project I cooked up more or less immediately after becoming enthralled with cast iron--The Cast … Continue reading Calling All Cast Iron Kooks