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Trades

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FOCUS QUESTIONS:

1) What was the role of the gunsmith?
2) What was the role of the cooper?
3) What was the role of the silversmith?
4) What was the role of the blacksmith?
5) What was the role of the brickmaker?

Helpful Resources:

Colonial Williamsburg Trades: Click on the links to learn more about each trade. This is an excellent place to start your research!
An 18th Century Trades Sampler: Click on the light blue links below the title to see pictures and read information about different trades This is an another great place for information about different trades!
Tools Used in Colonial Williamsburg
Video Demonstrations of Early American Tools
Pictures of Trades: Click on the trade to see pictures from Colonial Williamsburg
The Blacksmith's Shop
Blacksmith Tool Trouble Activity- Learn about the different tools that blacksmiths used.
Brickmaker Build Up Activity- Learn how to make bricks step by step.
Brickmaker Slideshow
Making, Baking, and Laying Bricks
Colonial Woodworkers
Cooper-ation Activity- Learn about the tools and steps coopers used to make casks.
Making Circles- Casks
The Cooper Trade Slideshow
Making Shoes and Boots
Letter from a Wigmaker's Apprentice
Milliner
An 18th Century Trades Sampler: Milliner
Milliner Shop
The Tailor Trade Slideshow
Tailor Made for History
Printer's Trade Slideshow
The Bindery Trade Slideshow
The Foundry Trade Slideshow
James Geddy Foundry
Cast in the Colonial Mold: The Foundry Trade at Colonial Williamsburg
The Gunsmith's Shop
Old Sturbridge Village: Online Collections- Scroll down and click on the appropriate collection to view artifacts that were used in the New England colonies
Encyclopedia article about "Colonial Life in America" - Open the World Book application in your dock. It looks like a blue globe. Click on Topics. Type "Colonial Life in America" in the search box and press Return. The article will appear in the big box on the right. Scroll down the article until you find the bold heading/section that relates to your topic. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFORMATION!
History Alive textbook, Chapter 9
If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days by Ann McGovern
If You Lived in Colonial Times by Barbara Brenner
Colonial Kids by Laurie Carlson
Children's Life in Colonial America by George Rice
History Pockets: Colonial America by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Early American Trades Coloring Book by Peter F. Copeland
and other books about colonial times available in our class and school library!