Other topics relating to 18th century material culture
Last updated: Aug 31, 2025
Primary sources
- Agriculture, farming, gardening, and husbandry
- Beekeeping
- Candles and candle-making
- Etiquette and manners
- Soap
- Life in 18th century America
- Runaway ads
- More primary sources, including letters and journals
On food and drink
- Cookbooks
- Beer
- Bread
- Butter churns
- Chocolate
- Coffee and coffeehouses
- Gingerbread
- Inns & Taverns
- Mead
- Punch
- Spruce beer
- Tea
Material culture of play
Occupations & material culture relating to textiles and needlework
- Chatelaines and equipages
- Coats of arms as embroidered by New England schoolgirls
- Dyes and dyeing
- Housewifes (hussifs, sewing rolls)
- Irons
- Knitting (and knitting sheaths)
- Knotting
- Lacemakers
- Laundry
- Marks (initials/dates) on clothes and linens
- Milliners and millinery shops
- Patched clothing
- Pincushions, and wearing pincushions
- Sewing kits (including work-baskets, work-tables, hussifs, needlecases, etc.)
- Spinning with a distaff and spindle
- Wall pockets
- Work-bags
- Yarn-winding tools, including niddy-noddies and clock reels
Occupations & material culture relating to lighting
Miscellaneous other stuff
- Bed warmers
- Beekeeping
- Birdcages
- Blacksmiths
- Books for young readers about 18th century life and history
- Brooms
- Babywearing and baby slings
- Camp followers
- Ear trumpets
- Fishing - Angling
- Floor cloths
- Flower sellers
- Booths at fairs
- Hornbooks
- Ice skating
- Knife grinders
- Monochrome-Print Clothing
- Mops
- Napping
- Peglegs
- Pickpockets
- Pottles
- Printed art and other broadsides displayed on walls
- Quilts: Pieced, Patchwork, Appliqué, Broderie Perse, and Wholecloth
- Recipes for Fashion (1753)
- Sedan chairs
- Slipcovers
- Tinkers
- Toilettes, dressing tables, and dressing rooms
- Wallets
- Watering cans
- Wheelchairs
