At the beloved former Old Goat Farm The new C. Row and Co. store has everything one needs for a trip to a childhood past: model trains, vintage toys, long-discontinued but now sought-after pencils, nature- themed personal care items, notebooks, and cards – even penny(ish) candies to...
Pecking for treasures in the Internet Archive Recently we discovered the International Tool Catalog Library on the Internet Archive. This extraordinary resource contains over 5,600 digitized antique and vintage hardware trade catalogs and advertisements from hardware magazines. Some capture publications dating back to the 1800s. The...
Toy Railroads from 1900 through 1945 The fascination of model railroading . . . is typically American. Each individual has the opportunity to inject his own personality into his work, to create a railroad system unlike any other one in the world. Joshua Lionel Cowen, late Chairman...
Over a century of imaginative and heroic play The Gilded Age in the United States (1874-1907) saw the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the skyscraper, and, in Keene. New Hampshire, the issuance of a patent for a cast-iron locomotive to James Wilkins,...