A picture book celebrating Colonial Williamsburg s Historic Trades, the largest, most diverse museum-operated trades program in the world. Here are masters and mistresses, the journeymen and journeywomen and apprentices at work, using traditional techniques and tools, and depicting the lives of working men and women in early America. All trades are represented: apothecary, basketmakers, blacksmiths, bookbinders, brickmakers, cabinetmakers, carpenters, cooks, coopers, farmers, founders, gardeners, gunsmiths, joiners, military artificers, milliners and mantua makers, printers, shoemakers, silversmiths, tailors, tin men, weavers, wheelwrights, and wigmakers.