DATABASE OF TELEPHONE OPERATORS
1880 TO 1920
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529,000 database of hobo and tramp names, biographical sketches,and comments on Hobo’s1877 to 1940
A GUIDE TO AMERICAN TRADE CATEGORIES 1850 TO 1920
This database will be available October 2020
This database has been15 years in the making and allows researchers to find family members by occupation 1850-1920
Review the categories listed below and choose one category that your ancestor may have worked in. Enter the category in the content box below with a 60 word description of the ancestor.
agricultural implements and machinery
alcohol and tobacco
architectural building materials
artist materials and supplies
automobiles
Barber supplies
beekeeper’s equipment and supplies
bells and Bell founders
bicycles and accessories
boats , ships, marine hardware and supplies
books booksellers and publishers
carriages, wagons and accessories
celebration, decorations and theatrical goods,
China and pottery
clocks and watches
clothing
dental instruments furnishings and supplies
Department dry goods and miscellaneous stores
drugs and Pharmaceuticals
fences
firearms
fire engine’s
food and drink
furniture
glassware
hardware builder’s hardware general hardware goods
hardware tools and machine tools
hardware miscellaneous machinery engines and supplies
horse goods
Jewelry
lighting I candle oil gas and electricity
livestock
magic lanterns in stereoscopes and stereo opticians
Medical and surgical instruments and supplies
Musical instruments and accessories
optical and scientific apparatus
ornamental iron work
paint
photographic apparatus and supplies
plumbing would let press in chromium
printer’s equipment
printer samples
Thompson waterwheels
railroad equipment local Motors pulling stocking supplies
refrigerators
Rd building machinery and equipment
scales and weighing devices
nurserymen products
sewing machine accessories
silver Ware
sporting goods
Stationary
stoves and heating equipment
telephone operators, linemen and other telephone classifications
toys games and equipment
typewriters
undertaker’s equipment
washing machines
weathervanes
windmills
CRAFTS
glass crafts
Ceramics and ceramic arts include:
Fiber and textile crafts
Flower crafts
Leatherwork
- Leather carving
- Leather crafting (including dyeing, painting, and stamping)
- Boiled leather making
Houseware
- Basket weaving (also called basketry, basket making)
- Cooper
Fashion
Needlework
Paper crafts
Paper crafts include:
- Paper marbling
- Origami (paper folding)
- Papermaking
- Cast paper
- Decoupage
- Papercutting
- Iris folding
- Paper embossing
- Bookbinding
- Quilling
- Papier-mâché
- Paper model
- Parchment craft
- Calligraphy
- Scrapbooking
Wood and furniture crafts
- Marquetry
- Wood burning
- Wood carving
- Woodworking
- Lacquer art
- Carpentry
- Cabinet making
- Upholstery
- Intarsia
- Woodturning
- Green Woodworking
- Spoon Carving
- Kumiko
- Timber Framing
Stone crafts
- Mosaics and inlaying
- Stone carving
- Stonemasonry
- Flintknapping
- Letter carving on stone.
Metal crafts
- Metalworking – metalsmith
- Enameling
- Blacksmithing
- Farrier
- Tin ware – tinsmith
- Weaponsmith – sword making, armorer, gunsmith, fletching
- Clockmaking
- Silversmith
- Coppersmith
- Knife making
- Locksmithing
- Jewelry
- Watchmaking
- Pewter
- Casting