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The following directions for making a wooden creeper were originally published in 1921. While the article was originally published for boys, this project can be…

The following article on berry box and basket toys was originally printed in 1915. The following crafts show the ingenuity of our recent ancestors and…

Have you ever wanted to know how to make a homemade safe? The instructions below were originally published in a newspaper back in 1916. A…

These butterfly patterns for embroidery were originally published in a newspaper from 1914. They can be used on just about anything, from backpacks to t-shirts…

The following instructions and illustrations are for making a signal lantern used for Morse code. the original article was published in 1915. While the article…

It was very common in the early 1900s to publish a children’s page in the newspapers and provide drawing lessons, such as the following lesson…

While the title of the original article makes one think it is about gifting handkerchiefs, the meat of the article talks about how handkerchiefs are…

What is the history of the handkerchief? How did it evolve? The article below covers some possible answers to such a once common object. This…

Fresh, young dandelion leaves are delicious in salad and it sometimes seems as though other people are re-discovering the simple beauty of the dandelion as…

What came to be known as the “Skeleton in Armor” was discovered in Fall River, Massachusetts in the early 1830s. Many believed it was the…