Early American Cast Iron Holloware 1645-1900: Pots, Kettles, Teakettles, and Skillets
John Tyler was educated in museum studies through the Hagley Foundation Fellowship Program in Greenville, Delaware and has a MA from the University of Delaware (1967). He spent ten years as a curator with the William Penn Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, specializing in the history of technology, particularly ironmaking. A self-taught blacksmith, he left the museum in 1978 to work at smithing full time. He hammered our replicas of Colonial household implements and lighting for more than thirty years while collecting and researching early cast iron, particularly holloware for this book. With his wife Darlene, who took most of the photographs in this book, he lives near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.