by Anthony L. Tafel. Softbound, 112 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Over 280 crisp color photographs revela artifacts of early American everyday life that were useful for surveying land, building log homes, farming the land, traveling, blacksmithing and cabinetmaking. From light paper ephemera such as land surveys and playing cards to heavy garden sones and conestoga wagon components, they are pictured and explained.